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.: Success
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is rewarding to know that the coaches at My
Work Coach, make
a professional impact on our client’s lives.
Here are some success stories and quotes from the
many thank you’s we’ve received. |
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When
we started to work with Ellen, she had just
assumed the role of CTO for a large New York
financial company. She accepted the position
knowing she was moving into an unknown field
and a huge change in span of management. She
was moving from managing five people to heading
a department of 225 people. She had little
idea of how to assume the position, how to
create a departmental culture that supported
her ideas and how to appropriately join the
executive team of the company.
Because Ellen decided to immediately work
with a coach, she was able to give herself
the best possible chance of rapidly developing
a broad organizational perspective while attending
to her new role as leader. Additionally, Ellen
was able to avoid political traps that could
have quickly derailed her well-intentioned
efforts. With the help of her professional
coach and strategist, she immediately planned
how to conduct the first (most important)
two weeks of business, when critical impressions
are being made and the first sound of her
leadership voice was being heard.
Together, Ellen and her coach focused on methods
for working with a high maintenance boss,
establishing both a formal and informal communication
process, smoothly interacting with the CEO
and Board of Directors and ultimately, establishing
a strong professional reputation.
One area Ellen intensely focused on was presenting
ideas so that they didn’t sound like
arguments or edicts. Ellen and her coach practiced
assertiveness tools, models to turn disagreements
into discussions, and persuasion techniques
that toned down some of the abrasiveness others
were experiencing when communicating with
Ellen. Ellen’s coach helped her to pay
attention to what the listener was perceiving
rather than what she was intending to communicate.
With this insight and practice, Ellen changed
her behavior in meetings and her communication
with those around her.
By involving herself with a coach early in
her new position, Ellen gained insight into
the company’s politics and learned to
use her communication skills to present herself
effectively in her new leadership position.
That was two years ago. Since that time, Ellen
has been given the opportunity to transition
beyond the IT area. She will be assuming the
President’s role of a new start up business
for the same parent company. Ellen has the
confidence that comes with the success of
assuming the top position of a large department.
She knows how to create an organizational
culture and how to establish management effective
practices. Ellen continues to check in with
her coach whenever she faces a new challenge
or wants to brainstorm an idea.
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