Leadership Coaching Approach
In addition to the leadership training and assessment services that provide for the foundation of our customizable Peak Performance Plan, Summit Leadership & Coaching will also provide individual and team leadership coaching to support your organization’s vision and mission. We approach coaching not as a series of conversations but rather as a focused individual learning process. The approach taken by our professional coaches will be the Maxwell method and is aligned to Strengths-based development as follows:
- Develop the individual leadership capacity in each person by creating a personal development plan with a map for success.
- Establish individual goals and benchmarks in correlation to department/team goals to drive results.
- Assist in the achievement of the organization’s vision by aligning outcomes with strategic processes.
- Transform the organizational culture by modeling and reinforcing the core values and behavior expectations from individual team members.
- Build a broad organizational leadership capacity for performance excellence.
Leadership Coaching Process
The process of leadership coaching will be an on-going exercise where we will provide encouragement, guidance, and honest feedback as each individual pursues their personal and professional goals, specifically tied to the important outcomes your organization wants to achieve. The key steps in our coaching process will follow the Maxwell method and are aligned to strengths-based development as follows:
- We meet to discuss goals and objectives and establish a timeline and a schedule.
- We then identify and assess strengths and challenges utilizing a variety of tools.
- We design a customized personal development plan and coaching schedule based on the assessment and feedback information with clearly defined benchmarks for success.
- We implement the designed one-on-one coaching plan and support this coaching with the application of real-time solutions to leadership challenges as a primary focus.
- We continually evaluate the coaching process to measure not only the effectiveness of the development plan but also the growth of the individual.
Summit Leadership & Coaching understands that this process takes time and effort and a commitment from the organization and individuals to “stick it out.” This is a marathon – not a sprint. The rewards of the journey, however, are absolutely worth the effort.
Leadership Development Roadmap
Leadership development is an investment in the future of your organization. The focus of this investment should not only be to improve the current performance of individuals in leadership positions but also to help each and every employee understand they have unique strengths that make them leaders in their departments and in the organization as a whole.
At Summit Leadership & Coaching, we believe in a simple definition of leadership: a leader is someone who guides someone else. Leadership is an art, a skill, which motivates, excites, and encourages people to be their best. However, good leadership does not just happen; it is learned. Like any other art, its skill must be honed, refined, mastered, and treasured.
Good leadership is about influence, not exertion of power. Good leadership influences positive progress and maximizes the efforts of others. Good leaders move their organizations forward toward defined goals.
Our team understands that lack of leadership does not mean a lack of desire or even a lack of leaders. What is most often missing is the component of actually learning how to be a good leader. It is critical to take time to learn good leadership skills and make a commitment to put those learned skills to efficient use.
Summit Leadership & Coaching gives you the tools to combine time and commitment to encourage leadership development in your organization. Our coaching strategies are designed to create an organization whose entire team is fully engaged. We do this by inspiring individuals to find their purpose and we give them the encouragement and freedom they need to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. We teach your team members to maximize and leverage their talents and acquire key experiences meant to solidify leadership skills. We provide a solid foundation for the WHY behind what we’re doing–we are creating leaders.
We focus on your team members’ development through proven coaching methods that empower and engage employees in their own growth. Beginning with Gallup CliftonStrengths and the use of DiSC personality reports, our trainings help individuals understand themselves, their strengths, and crucial strategies designed to improve their interactions with others and achieve a higher level of satisfaction in the workplace which produces measurable, positive results.
Our customizable leadership development solutions help your leaders and high leadership-potential team members understand and model behaviors that create exceptional workplace environments.
