Executive Coaching FAQs

As a Certified Strengths and Co-Active Coach, my goal is to get you outside of your comfort zone, into uncharted territory. It is my belief that is where you will grow and gain greater perspectives and see new possibilities. I will push you to take necessary calculated risks. I will challenge thoughts, actions and behaviors that are holding you back from where you want and need to go.

I will do so by exploring your talents and strengths, unleash your potential and hold you accountable for performing at your best. Our partnership will be one of excitement and aliveness.

The optimal outcome is a significantly improved employment engagement and the success will be measured, recognized and celebrated.

For Individual and Management Coaching Engagements: We will measure and track your results in your Personal Development Plan (PDP) based on the results from the customized State Assessment and Analysis. We will do a baseline, mid-term and a final state assessment with customized built in metrics!

For Team Coaching Engagements: We will utilize a customized Team Optimization Metric Tool and the Gallup Q 12 Tool!

Since each coaching engagement is customized to fit the client’s specific needs and challenges, rates vary greatly based on Individual vs. Manager vs. Team coaching and consulting. The rates will also be based on the term 3, 6 or 12 month and the frequency of our engagement weekly, bi-weekly, monthly. Please call for a discussion of your specific needs and challenges and I will provide a customized proposal free of charge.

Because it’s faster, and the most effective methodology and the transformation is more permanent because you are working with who you are at your core.

In addition, Gallup research has proven the impact on individuals working for a Strengths –Based Organization. They are:

• 6 times more engaged on their job,
• 7.8% more productive as individuals,
• 3 times likely to report a higher quality of life.

© Gallup

“Strengths-based development is unique in its approach and outcome. It’s based on the simple notion that a person’s talents do more than make an individual unique. Our greatest talents – the way in which we most naturally think, feel, and behave – represents our innate power and potential. When we tap into this source of wisdom and power, we are more effective, we act with more confidence, direction, and hope, and we are more productive’’.

Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.
Psychologist and Business Executive

Leaders and Teams that focus on strengths every day have 12.5% greater productivity, and a 8.9% greater profitability.

See Tom Rath and Barry Conchie’s article “The Strengths of Leadership”

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Strengths Based Leadership

• 30 years of research studying talents and strengths
• 34 Themes create a common language
• 3 million+ have taken the inventory
• Studied 1 million+ work teams
• 20K in-depth interviews with leaders
• 10K interviews with followers to ask why
• 250,000 combinations of Top 5 Themes
• Test-retest reliability is 75% over time

• What is a Strength?
  Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance) = Talent ( a natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving) X Investment ( time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base.)
• How does Zynergy International measure Strengths?
  I start every assignment with the Gallup Strengths Finder Assessment.
• How accurate is the Strengths Finder Assessment in measuring Strengths?
  See this document for an overview of the methodology and reasoning behind the Strengths Finder.