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Coaching is not training, consulting, counseling, mentoring, or therapy. Coaching is a service and ongoing accountability process that is about listening, observing, and customizing an approach that helps clients' dramatically and positively impact their personal, team, professional, and strategic needs, issues, and opportunities.

Coaching seeks to elicit solutions and strategies from the client's point of view and help hold them accountable during an ongoing, rigorous coaching process. The job of the coach is to amplify awareness and to enhance their mindset, skill-set, tool-set, resources, and creativity that will dramatically improve a clients performance and results.

When defining Simpson Executive Coaching, Michael states, "our goal with executive coaching is to help assess, coach, and build great leaders' performance - one leader at a time!"ÊLeaders today are seeking executive coaching just to stay ahead of the competition. More than ever before, leaders and their teams have to be able to clarify and accomplish their most important strategies and goals amidst all the other competing priorities from their day job. Competition and the rigorous demands of work require a fundamental shift in the nature and role of leadership required to compete in a global, economy. Our coaching offers a confidential, objective, third-party perspective to help leaders and managers focus on their targeted gaps, issues, challenges, and opportunities with action plans focused on performance improvement and results. Clients finally have a safe place where they can disclose their real leadership agenda and opportunities in a completely open in a confidential environment.

Simpson Executive Coaching and its' alliance partners leverage over 200+ coaching tools based on proven world-class content, methodologies, assessments, and practical applications in a customized and confidential way. Our coaching methodologies were co-created with FranklinCovey and Columbia University's Executive Coaching Certification Program and are embraced by the International Coach Federation. Our coaching process is customized and designed to meet the client's best interests, leadership agenda, and needs. Simpson Executive Coaching can be offered as a stand-alone coaching process or added to the back-end of an executive training and development effort.

• Winning, competitive business strategies
• Vision and strategic path
• Manage organizational change and transition
• Building high trust teams and culture
• Team goal alignment, accountability, and performance management
• Talent management: attract, develop, promote, and reward
• Unleash talent, passion, and capability of teams
• Improve talent pool and succession plans
• Clarify goals, execute key priorities, accountability
• Leadership effectiveness, development, and performance results
• Stakeholders and partner satisfaction
• Align self and teams to corporate priorities
• Feedback as an improvement tool
• Leaders transitions: business, career, and life
• Challenge paradigms and effective behavior change
• Emotional intelligence and improve key relationships
• Personal development plans, career path, and goals
• Whole person work-life balance
• Personal focus, discipline, and accountability

SEC focuses on leaders improving performance and getting significant results. Executives, leaders, and managers today are caught in times of unprecedented organizational change and complexity. We are not playing yesterday's game, we are playing tomorrow game. Leading change -- safely navigating through periods of transition and growth has become a new normal for the global age. Today's leader lives in a near-constant state of disturbance and chaos. Leaders can be stuck running in place, or dealing with the difficult gaps with the historical past, and this poses an unprecedented challenge for all leaders going forward. Whether leaders have immense pressures for profitable growth, bottom-line results, cost reductions, globalization, technology advancements, or environmental issues -- the pressures are dynamic and constant. Many of today's executives are dealing with a lack of vision and strategic clarity, underperforming teams and results, poor leadership succession and development, the erosion of employee and public trust, the loss of valuable intellectual and human capital -- all the while they are expected to do more with less. In the midst these unprecedented leadership challenges, they too are also expected to be focused, competitive, strategic, harness the best talent, develop and empower others, and flawlessly execute on goals and objectives. Unlike any other transformational effort, one on one executive coaching with CEOs, Presidents, Leaders, and Managers helps to make a significant difference in the mind-set, skill-set, and tool-set needed to navigate such future change and success required in the new global economy.

Executive coaching of leaders helps to facilitate awareness, focus, the right mind-set, skills, strategies, and tools, with bold plans to successfully navigate a clients' personal and professional agendas that matters most to them.

Those who benefit the most from coaching are those individuals who share their confidential issues, challenges, and opportunities in a coaching engagement. Simpson Executive Coaching and its coaching alliance partners learn who you are - not just at the surface-level but at a deep-level to support you, your desired goals, and strategic objectives going forward. We then help hold you accountable to achieve a new desired level of effectiveness. We discuss and help you prioritize and focus on those the things that matter most, so you can confidently develop your leadership skills, unleash your talent, and map out your road to success.

Simpson Executive Coaching offers one on one and team level coaching services with access to a wide range of coaching assessments, coaching content, and coaching web-based tools. Individuals and team members engage in an action-learning environment focused on discovery, learning, application, and ongoing improvement towards very specific business performance and results.

We offer flexible coaching options both onsite and by telephone. Onsite confidential coaching offers face to face coaching, shadowing on the job, interviewing fellow colleagues, team members and peers, and virtual follow up with regularly scheduled telephone-coaching sessions. Coaching sessions can be offered weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly spaced over a three, six, nine, or twelve month time frame.

Our coaching goal is to help executives, managers, and aspiring leaders from around the world build a path to success without the high cost of travel, dealing effectively across various time zones, and reducing any unnecessary absence from the office. Our coaching experts' assist in transforming today's managers into tomorrow's leaders by working with them individually to resolve key issues and challenges and help to transition to more effective behaviors, skills, and results. Our clients continually tell us how great it is to have a confidential, knowledgeable, experienced, and trustworthy coach as a guide on the side and in their corner.

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