EXECUTIVE COACHING

The following information and questions will assist you to make that determination. Please download and answer the questions then give John a call.

These are one’s interior roadblocks – patterns of behavior, defensive routines or deeply held assumptions and beliefs that continue to undermine and subvert one’s best intentions. The struggle is a conscious, determined and courageous effort to deal with such embedded revelations and “vital lies.” Vulnerability is required. Somerset Maugham’s iconic novel The Razor’s Edge appropriately names the uncomfortable place one must willingly travel to, but that is where the growth is to be found.

“I was on a diving boat headed to the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian/European rock celebrity Tina Arena and entourage were aboard. I offered to share my sunscreen with her and her road manager. She asked me my name and what I do.  When I said “executive coach,” she unabashedly responded, “So ask me your first question if I was a CEO.” My response: “What is your struggle?” By two days later, which included a posh dinner, breakfast and lunch, she got the hang of it. She was on the path of personal inquiry, to get to the heart of what her struggle was. I helped her to conclude what she already knew. Big changes followed. I read it in the newspapers. Most of the CEOs that I have coached move cautiously onto the razor’s edge.”

After an engagement with John, you will have:

• Come to know yourself in a new way whereas the attributes of self-reflection, self-management, and social awareness will be understood enhancing the openness, willingness and discipline to affect personal and organizational change essential to build trust and credibility within your workforce.
• Developed your own leadership and management targeted profiles and clarified how your role will change as well as why and how your leadership style impacts the performance of others.
• Created a set of personal values and five-year vision statement fundamental to leading organizational change supported by a personal action plan for strengthening your leadership skills, mitigating weaknesses and increasing awareness of your own “blind spot” and its impact on others.
• Adapted a responsive team building philosophy and model including coaching techniques and training to improve individual and team performance.
• Established a “customer centric” management system and stakeholder model increasing role effectiveness as an executive manager in a dynamic and changing operating environment.
• Learned strategic planning, value chain, change management models and applied methods to increase organizational effectiveness, operational efficiency and profits.

Quinlan’s leadership coaching program is not a “quick fix” approach. Executive development and personal coaching engagements comprise a highly individualized and focused curriculum of 6-hour sessions, twice per month for one year. Since Quinlan believes in vulnerability as strength, he requires your commitment to be vulnerable with him. He finds it fascinating to earn enough of someone’s trust to allow them to drop their guard and be real with him. Once leadership and their colleagues are ready to open up, show their vulnerability, and discuss what it is they really want for their company, then Quinlan moves on to the logistical aspects of work.