CORPORATE LEADERSHIP COACHING

 

Who Becomes a Leadership Coaching Client?
 Successful executives, managers and leaders who are eager to partner with a professional who is committed to helping them achieve their goals in a more powerful, focused and often faster way than they would on their own. Clients also include individuals who are looking to shift their performance and behaviour to increase their effectiveness and satisfaction in how they earn a living. Some of the typical questions faced by leadership coaching clients are "How can I":

  • best achieve my development goals and progress my career?

  • provide better leadership to my direct reports?

  • manage my time more effectively so that I can accomplish more?

  • learn to adapt to different communication styles?

  • create a personal vision that is aligned with my organization?

  • achieve balance between work and family commitments?

  • learn to interact more effectively with my boss?

  • leverage my strengths to have greater impact?

 

 

“...my sales manager's role is fast paced, involving many time sensitive initiatives. I'm a competitor and I love to win! Sue's coaching keeps me on track. With Sue's help, I have clear, measurable and achievable goals. I know what has to be done.  I can't lose! Thanks Sue!”

 

Business Development Manager - Atlantic

Consumer Packaged Goods company

 

 

What is Leadership Coaching?
 Coaching expands your capacity to achieve your professional and personal definition of success and create breakthrough results. Additionally, Leadership Coaching aligns the individual's goals and talents with the strategy of the organization.

Leadership Coaching clients are typically sponsored by an organization. Organizations identify "high potentials" that they want to invest in to accelerate their professional development. They also sponsor talented individuals with behaviours that undermine their effectiveness.

The Coach Approach:
 Using a simple, yet powerful coaching model, a coach collaborates with clients to optimize their performance, development and fulfillment. In a coaching relationship, clients are supported in discovering their own insights and achieving change from the inside-out. Clients gain new skills and adopt behaviours with more "staying power" than through an approach that involves purely "telling" or advising.

Simply stated, coaching results in transformations. Such transformations have a positive impact for the client, the client's direct team and the broader organization.

What Coaching is Not:
Coaching is not therapy. Therapy brings a depth of understanding and awareness of the past. Coaching is action-based, forward-looking and focused on making changes based on awareness the client already holds.

Coaching is not consulting. In its purest sense, a coach does not provide answers, advice or solutions, instead coaching focuses on guiding clients through discovery of their own answers. From time-to-time, however, a coach may request permission to provide a consultant perspective or to suggest a helpful tool.

 

 

Sue has an uncanny ability to bring out the best in me.  Our coaching sessions have given me the clarity of thought that has allowed me to breakthrough the clutter of insignificant day-to-day details, to get to quantum growth results.  I am better focused, fully confident in my abilities and am leading in a manner that I knew I was capable of.  Our time together is invaluable to me.”

 

Director

National Food Service company

 

 

 

 

What I do as a Coach:

I support my clients in:

  • defining goals and generating ideas about how to achieve them

  • establishing specific action plans

  • dealing with barriers

  • achieving results.

 

I facilitate my clients' self-discovery by:

  • asking provocative questions

  • providing an objective sounding board

  • challenging them to stretch further and delve deeper

  • giving feedback in a forthright yet compassionate way.

 

Assessment instruments are often incorporated into the coaching process to help clients to look in the mirror to recognize both individual strengths and behavioural opportunities. I am qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, Thomas International™ (DISC) Personal Profile Analysis and Benchmarks® (360-degree feedback) and other selected instruments.

 

 

“Thank you for delivering the results of my 360.  I couldn’t have imagined a better coach.  I have thoroughly enjoyed our work together so far.  There is always a little voice in my head that sounds like you(!) as I work through the never-ending challenges presented to me, helping me to breathe, think, plan, and continue to work from a place of integrity and authenticity”

 

VP North American Sales

Global Telecommunications company

 

Confidentiality

I maintain absolute confidentiality with my coaching clients. Information is only conveyed to sponsoring organizations with the direct permission and involvement of my clients to support them with specific goals.

Coaching Formats and Fees:
 Coaching is arranged on a monthly retainer basis, usually for a period of 3 to 6 months. Coaching sessions take place in person or by telephone. Fees are paid at the beginning of each month as a retainer for services provided.

 

Core Leadership Coaching Package:

  • Includes 3 half-hour or 2 forty-five minute telephone sessions per month.

  • "Field work" in-between the coaching session, involving taking actions and reflecting on progress against goals.

  • Up to 2 email updates from the client between sessions and coaching commentary from the coach.

  • Referrals to resources such as articles, books, websites that relate to the client's goals

  • "Emergency" phone access for urgent issues that may arise between coaching sessions.

 

Leadership Coaching Package Plus:

  • Includes a 1 hour-long face-to-face meeting per month, plus 1 forty-five minute telephone session per month.

  • "Field work" in-between the coaching session, involving taking actions and reflecting on progress against goals.

  • Unlimited email updates from the client and coaching commentary from the coach.

  • Referrals to resources such as articles, books, websites that relate to the client's goals.

  • "Emergency" phone access for urgent issues that may arise between coaching sessions.

 

 

 

I have greatly appreciated the insightful expertise that Sue Edward’s has provided me as a I began my new position as Executive Director just over one year ago.  Our regularly scheduled meetings allowed me to get ideas and develop progressive solutions in “real time”.  I was coaching skeptic but now I see a great value in the objective external viewpoint that coaching provides.

 

Executive Director

National, Not for Profit Association

 

Intensive Leadership Coaching Package:

Appeals to the coachee who seeks to achieve stretch developmental goals within an aggressive timeline.

  • Includes weekly scheduled coaching sessions of up to 2.5 cumulative hours per month

  • "Field work" in-between coaching sessions, involving taking actions and written reflection on progress against goals.

  • Unlimited access to brief, update calls with the Coach between coaching sessions.

  • Review and feedback on materials prepared by coachee for key presentations, meetings

  • Includes coach's attendance at 1 internal meeting per month for up to 1 hour, to observe and give feedback to the coachee on interactions in the work environment.

 

Susan Edwards, B.A., P.C.C., C.H.R.P.

 

Sue Edwards is President of Development by Design.  She has over 22 years of experience as a corporate coach, management consultant and human resources manager with a number of leading organizations.  She’s been a successful entrepreneur since 1996 and previously worked for Mercer Human Resources Consulting, Campbell Soup, Bayer and Imperial Oil.

 

Over her career, Sue has enhanced organization, team and individual performance through initiatives in organization change, design of human resources processes, and coaching leaders and management teams.

 

She is a graduate of Corporate Coach U and has received her Associate Certified Coach accreditation from the International Coach Federation (ICF).  She is a member of the ICF, the ICF-GTA Chapter, the Hamilton & Area Coaches Association, the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario, the Company of Women and the Women’s Ecommerce Association, International.  Sue is a graduate of the co-op program in Industrial Psychology at the University of Waterloo and has completed a number of MBA courses at Dalhousie University.  She has also achieved her Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation. Sue is qualified to administer numerous assessments, including: the Myers-Briggs Type Indicatorâ, Thomas International (DISC) Personal ProfileÔ, Personal Coaching Styles Inventory and Benchmarksâ.

 

Sue has worked with clients throughout North America within various industries including: technology, manufacturing, consumer-packaged goods, advertising & marketing, education, consulting and other services, including not-for-profit.  Some of these organizations include:  Avotus, Bayer, Campbell Soup Company, Canadian Cardiovascular Society, Imperial Oil, Ontario Power Generation, McMAster University, Meikle Automation, Novopharm, Pillsbury Canada, Rockwell Automation, Rogers Cablesystems, Shopper’s Drug Mart and the Town of Oakville.

 

She has particular expertise in coaching leaders moving into new roles and new organizations and has developed a unique process called Clearing the 90-day Hurdle™ to support this transition.  She also specializes in supporting business owners in growing their businesses by establishing innovative alliances.  Sue’s clients value her integrity, pragmatism, willingness to challenge and her sense of fun!

 

Sue is the author of Congratulations, You're Hired! A Coach's Guide to Ensuring a Successful Transition, a book produced exclusively for candidates placed by Lock & Associates, a Canadian-wide recruitment firm.  She has been interviewed on CTV’s Canada AM, Canada’s most-watched morning program, and profiled in the National Post and West of the City magazine.  She is a featured “Ask the Expert” columnist for the Company of Women and writes a regular column on leadership and career issues for a National recruitment firm. She is currently authoring a self-coaching workbook for public distribution to support individuals moving into new organizations.  Sue is an international conference speaker.

 

Sue’s coaching is also impacted by the life lessons provided as parent of a 7 year-old boy and 5 year-old girl and by her relationship with her husband. Sue’s clients value her integrity, pragmatism, willingness to challenge and her sense of fun!

 

Contact Susan Edwards at info@development-by-design.com – www.development-by-design.com.