Executive Coaching & Renewal
Society has evolved from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy. Change has become our most dependable reality. The rules that worked for the generation before us as professionals, partners, team and community members, no longer serve adults living in the 21st century.
Individuals and organizations are challenged to develop new competencies for sustaining resilience and strategic renewal within themselves and the environments in which they live and work.
Executive coaches help individuals design compelling careers in the context of 21st century realities: rapid change, increasing complexity, global forces, and unstable organizations.
Executive coaching is a collaborative partnership between a coach and an executive who is committed to maximizing his or her professional expertise and achieving extraordinary performance within an organization.
Customized to meet the developmental needs of the executive, coaching technology is designed to unlock individual potential, accelerate professional development, and maximize career satisfaction. The dynamic, action and goal-oriented process increases clarity, effectiveness, and results.
Executive coaches champion success by providing methodologies that align professional development with organizational goals. Executives develop a greater awareness of their ability to impact and contribute to the organization’s success while promoting personal achievement, fulfillment, and professional award.
GCA will enhance your ability to identify, design, and implement strategies to achieve the extraordinary.
In partnership with GCA you will:
- Develop competencies for managing long-term effectiveness and sustained performance,
- Master the life skills necessary for navigating personal and professional change successfully,
- Leverage change as a means to set new directions and inspire new actions,
- Evaluate your behavior and competency within the organizational culture in which you work,
- Increase your effectiveness by developing your abilities of self-observation, self-awareness, and self-responsibility,
- Innovate beyond self-imposed or limiting assumptions,
- Proactively manage your career,
- Establish a developmental agenda in support of you achievement,
- Design a strategic action plan through which to realize your desired success.
According to research conducted by Manchester, Inc., eighty percent of the factors that affect your professional success are entirely within your control.
Consider this:
- Lifelong employment with one company is now regarded as obsolete.
- Education no longer ends with the completion of formal schooling and acquiring degrees. Building a skill portfolio has become a continuous process.
- Employees need to take responsibility for their own career planning.
- Career development refers primarily to matching marketable talents to career opportunities. Moving up the “career ladder” is no longer applicable.
Benchmarks of Career Success:
Build and maintain a career portfolio: acquire skills, abilities, and knowledge to increase your marketability.
Maintain awareness of business trends in your industry, professional field, or functional expertise.
Identify and communicate your career goals to your employer.
Build and maintain a network of business associates with whom you keep in regular contact.
Maintain exemplary performance.
Pursue challenging, highly visible developmental opportunities at work.
Identify and establish relationships with mentors and role models.
Learn from your experience and past history.
Project a positive professional image.
Maintain an updated resume; regularly re-evaluate your career goals.
Among the 20 percent of factors not within an employee’s control are: major business/industry trends and organizational decisions to outsource, merge, relocate, restructure, or downsize.
Source: Manchester Inc., a career management consulting firm. Manchester is a part of Prolianz, the professional services division of Modis Professional Services Inc. (NYSE:MPS).
GCA provides a platform from which you will proactively manage your career, establish a developmental agenda in support of your achievement, and implement strategies through which to realize your desired success.