CEO of Your Life
Executive Business Coaching

Bring Out the Full Potential of Your Executive Team

Strong executive teams don’t need people to prove their value. They need them to put their value into action. Doing so demands that they recognize their true potential and develop the tools to bring it forward with courage and confidence. Our holistic, WHOLE LIFE approach will help your executive team embrace their full potential to transform your organization from the inside out.

We take a whole life approach to executive business coaching. Whatever change you want to make, area you want to improve, or objective you need to achieve, we know that the most impactful, sustainable shifts happen through a holistic approach. That means looking at the system as a whole – either on an individual, team or organizational level – to get to the root of anything holding you back, understand exactly where shifts need to happen, and be able to design habits, practices, tools and solutions that work for your unique needs and objectives.

529%

A MetrixGlobal study found that executive coaching programs produced a 529% ROI.

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    How Can an Executive Business Coach Help Your Business?

    An Executive Coach helps bring out the unique strengths and talents of your executives, empowering them to show up with courage, confidence and compassion, and setting off a domino effect that takes your whole organization to the next level.

    Melissa is a firm believer that when you change what’s going on inside of you, the world outside of your changes. By asking powerful questions, acting as a sounding board, helping executives see their blind spots, and encouraging them to dig deep into what drives them and what holds them back, Melissa helps create real transformation on a personal level that ripples out, positively impacting the people and circumstances around them.

    Having an Executive Business Coach is more common than you think. A Hay Group study of Fortune 500 companies found that 21 to 40% utilize executive coaching services as standard leadership development for elite executives and talented up-and-comers. Additionally, a recent Manchester Inc. survey of 100 executives found that coaching provided an average return on investment of almost six times the cost of the coaching.

    Whether you’re choosing executive, or executive management coaching services, the right coach can help take all aspects of your organization to new heights.

    What Are Some Reasons to Hire an Executive Business Coach?

    Does your company struggle with leaders who lack the executive presence or confidence to successfully fill their roles? Leaders who struggle to connect with colleagues and employees? Leaders who are qualified but lack the emotional intelligence to inspire their teams? Leaders who struggle to prioritize professional expectations with personal commitments?  Leaders who don’t freely speak up or share their ideas? Do you have employees (at any level) on the verge of burnout?

    These issues are so difficult because the root cause is often found at a deeply personal level.

    Executive coaching and consulting services, when they take a heart-based approach, can help you get to the heart of the issues by digging into all the messy and deeply human elements, guiding your executives towards full self-acceptance, so that they can build the courage, confidence and vulnerability needed to address these issues head on and start bringing out the best of themselves in all that they do.

    Through coaching, executives develop the presence and confidence to lead effectively, learn to take control of their impact in setting the tone for those around them, develop tools to put the big picture and larger objectives first, achieve the self-acceptance needed to freely ask for help and delegate strategically, learn how to co-create with team members, develop communication skills that prioritize clarity and an “us together” approach, and establish a mindset of continual growth.

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    Executive Business Coaching helps executives:

    How Can Executive Business Coaching help executives?

    • Get real about what is standing in their way & confront it, head on;
    • Develop strong, effective leadership & management skills;
    • Connect with employees in a way that builds trust and respect;
    • Inspire teams to align with organizational objectives;
    • Build successful, high performance teams;
    • Bring their unique strengths and talents forward with confidence;
    • Communicate effectively and with impact;
    • Improve personal effectiveness & time management;
    • Identify steps and opportunities to advance and grow;
    • Become strong, courageous leaders;
    • Embrace vulnerability as a highly effective leadership approach;
    • Improve work and life balance;
    • Create significant positive impact on the organization;

    Melissa works with people to identify their unique strengths and tap into them to remove whatever is blocking them, whether those blockages are of a personal or professional nature. She then works with them to align their unique strengths with their roles and corporate objectives to take themselves to the next level.

    Through change-oriented coaching, Melissa aims to remove the problematic behaviors, thoughts and patterns that hold people back, then focuses on growth-oriented coaching to sharpen performance and confidence.

    Additional Benefits of Executive Business Coaching:

    What are the benefits of executive business coaching? Here is a list:

    • Get leaders on a personal growth path to know themselves better – their values, purpose and strengths, what drives them, the issues holding them back, what they need to address to move forward, and what they need to create successful work/life balance;
    • Get leaders out of their comfort zones and arm them with the courage and confidence to achieve more than they thought they could;
    • Understand how to have difficult conversations in a way that honors the human – the strengths and value of the individual – while creating positive outcomes for the organization;
    • Understand how to use Focal Point Business Coaching to better manage time, teams and resources;
    • Enhance and build strong leadership and management skills that inspire motivation, engagement and productivity;
    • Cultivate interpersonal communication skills that focus on connection and creative problem solving instead of defensiveness and self-preservation;
    • Strengthen employee communication and relationships to align all business elements (marketing, hiring, partnerships, workspace, etc.) with the future the organization is creating;
    • Be proactive in adapting to, and capitalizing on, ambiguity and change;
    • Empower the natural leader inside everyone and build the courage and confidence to bring it forward in all that they do;
    • Navigate difficult situations by tuning into their inner compass to make decisions that are aligned with their, and the organization’s, values;
    • Boost morale, trust, employee engagement, recognition, creativity, positivity and possibilities.

    When you have a problem, you look for the root cause to make it right. Any solution that doesn’t address the root cause is just a bandaid. Executive struggles are often rooted in the core self. So, to truly overcome them, that’s where you need to go. An approach that doesn’t start with the self may work short term, but the self will keep resurfacing. It will always be there. Solve the issues at the core, and you create better people, who go on to create great companies. That’s what Executive Business Coaching does. When you take that approach, here are just some of the benefits you will see:

    Let’s unleash the hidden talent within your organization and bring it forward with confidence and courage.

    Melissa provides professional coaching and support, tailors programs to meet specific needs and teaches proven strategies for unleashing the unique talents and strengths right under your nose.

    She is known to be empathetic but assertive in her coaching style, helping people at all levels drop the masks that hold them back so they can bring their full talent and energy to all that they do. As a down-to-earth leader with a natural talent for connecting with people at all levels, Melissa has an excellent track record working with high performing individuals and teams.

    • 70% improved performance

      ICF Global Coaching Client Study

      80% of people who receive coaching report increased self-confidence, and over 70% benefit from improved work performance, relationships, and more effective communication skills. 86% of companies report that they recouped their investment on coaching and more (source: ICF 2009).

      According to the ICF Global Coaching Client Study, the vast majority of companies (86%) say they at least made their investment back. In fact, almost one in five people (19%) saw an ROI of 50 times their investment, while a further 28% saw an ROI of 10 to 49 times the investment.

      https://www.scrumandkanban.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NeedCoaching.pdf

    • 19% improvement in sales

      Companies that support coaching development improve sales objectives by as much as 19%.

      https://www.brainshark.com/ideas-blog/2016/august/sales-statistics-coaching-for-sales-leaders

    • Greater engagement through coaching cultures

      From Building a Coaching Culture with Millennial Leaders

      A growing number of organizations recognize the value in building a coaching culture that offers employees at all levels the opportunity to grow their skills, enhance their value and reach their professional goals. Investing in coaching pays off: Coaching can shift your organization’s culture by moving away from a command and control leadership style to collaboration and creativity. Organizations with strong coaching cultures report that their employees are more highly engaged, compared to organizations without strong coaching cultures. Organizations with strong coaching cultures also report above-average revenue growth in relation to industry peers.

    BUSINESS COACHING vs. EXECUTIVE COACHING
    Confused about the difference? Unsure of what you need? A Business Coach focuses on, well, the business side – strategy, operations, marketing, corporate structure, etc. An Executive Coach, or Executive Business Coach, focuses on the personal development of the people and teams within your organization, guiding them to embrace vulnerability and courage as powerful leadership skills, and empowering them to become stronger leaders, effective decision makers, and highly motivated drivers of success. This is what we mean when we say we strengthen your business by strengthening the people within it.
    HOW TO PREPARE FOR EXECUTIVE COACHING
    Choosing executive business coaching is one of the best decisions you can make for the growth of your organization. But, like any program, it will only work if you put the work in. The best way to start is with an open mind and a conversation. If you are considering executive coaching for others within your organization and have concerns about their openness, rest assured that you are not alone and that we can help. Contact CEO of Your Life to start the conversation.

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