Executive development and coaching

Your behavior in conflict situations at work influences how others view your leadership effectiveness. And your ability to resolve others’ conflict effectively affects how others view your career advancement potential.

Executives, business partners, managers and HR professionals seek out my executive development and coaching to accomplish these kinds of goals:

• Change the way you engage conflict at work (or home).
• Get a fresh perspective on a conflict situation with a business partner or important client.
• Learn how to get less “hooked” by conflict or get over being a “conflict junkie” (in other words, balance your good directness with minimizing the debris in your wake).
• Learn how to be more direct or less bowled-over by conflict (or, as one of my grad students once said, “how not to be a conflict coward anymore”).
• Craft a strategy for dealing with a challenging employee, team or client.
• Craft a thoughtful response to a quickly escalating workplace conflict.
• Learh now to negotiate powerfully for yourself or advocate strongly for your team without damaging professional or client relationships.
• Figure out how to say what you need to say to someone at work or home.

Are we a fit?

My executive coaching style is straightforward and direct, while also supportive and empathic. If you’re looking for someone who will teach you how to change habits of mind, offer you tools and strategies for practical use, and hold you accountable for moving forward with your goals, we could be a good fit to achieve what you want.

What is executive conflict coaching?

Conflict coaching helps people…

• Identify how to strengthen the way you engage conflict, communication, negotiations and difficult conversations.
• Get clear on the habits and traps that aren’t serving you well.
• Develop new skills, behaviors and approaches to create lasting success.

Whom do you coach?

I coach people who want to respond to a conflict situation or difficult conversation effectively and want private, high-quality, individual attention to make that happen.

Is executive coaching tax deductible?

The fees you pay to a coach may be tax deductible. In the USA all expenses of continuing education undertaken to maintain and improve business and professional skills are tax deductible (Treas. Reg.1-162-5, Coughlin vs. Commissioner, 203F 2d 307). Contact your tax professional for more information.