Cascade Centers Incorporated : Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching

“The rules for work are changing. We’re being judged by a new yardstick; not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also how well we handle ourselves and each other.”
~Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence

Challenging Times call for Strong Leaders. Strong Leaders have Leadership Coaches.

Your smarts, training, and expertise are NOT ENOUGH. You are being judged by how well you handle yourself and your work relationships. How high is your Emotional Intelligence I.Q.? Your personal Leadership Coach is a licensed, experienced professional ready to help you raise your Emotional Intelligence competency.

What is Leadership Coaching?
Cascade’s engaging and challenging Leadership Coaching program will develop you to your greatest potential. By helping you identify your strengths and weaknesses, your coach will guide you through a customized plan to provide you with the tools to strengthen your ability to communicate, make decisions, manage change, set and achieve your goals, and more.

Who would benefit from Leadership Coaching?
Top Executives will become competent at managing themselves and others and learn how this ability can positively influence the entire organization. Middle managers will learn more about themselves and how they are perceived by direct reports, allowing them to manage more effectively. Truly, Leadership Coaching is for anyone and everyone! After all, aren’t we all Leaders of our own lives?

Who is your coach?
Your coach is an experienced, licensed professional who has consulted with private and public organizations across a multitude of business sectors for years. This business experience, coupled with the skills to coach Emotional Intelligence, translates into advice you can trust and feedback that is objective, honest, and direct. You will be encouraged to move outside your comfort zone toward success. Together you will set goals and formulate a plan to achieve your objectives. Then your coach will be with you every step of the way while you work your plan for real results.

How does it work?
Your coaching experience begins by meeting with your coach, in the comfort of your own office, and starting a life-changing relationship. First, you will complete an in-depth assessment which provides you with a customized report targeting areas of growth potential that will form the basis for your coaching plan. We will work within the Emotional Intelligence Framework which is twofold: your personal competencies, which determine how you manage yourself, and your social competencies, which determine how you handle your relationships with others.

Personal Competence requires Self-Awareness (knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources, and intuitions), Self-Regulation (managing one’s internal states, impulses, and resources), and Motivation (emotional tendencies that guide or facilitate reaching goals). Therefore, we will be assessing and working on up to twelve important facets: emotional awareness, accurate self-assessment, adaptability, self-confidence, self-control, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, innovation, achievement drive, commitment, initiative, and optimism.

Social Competence requires Empathy (awareness of others’ feelings, needs, and concerns) and Social Skills (adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others). There are 13 facets of this competence which offer potential skill development: understanding others, developing others, being service oriented, leveraging diversity, having political awareness, wielding persuasive influence, communicating convincingly, managing conflict, being a leader who inspires and guides, initiating and managing change, building relationship bonds, working with others in the collaborative/cooperative style, and creating group synergy within teams.

Using the EI Framework, you will identify and develop your strengths, recognize and learn to compensate for developmental needs, and gain strategies for career and personal development. All sessions with your coach are personal face-to-face meetings scheduled at your convenience. You also have unlimited email and phone access to your coach so you have more ways to address concerns and questions promptly. After the conclusion of your coaching, your contract includes a complimentary follow-up session. Your personal coach has an ongoing commitment to you and the achievement of your goals.

The cost
$225.00/hour with a minimum purchase of 5 sessions required. This includes the cost of the MBTI STEP II assessment. Travel cost is $95/hour, the travel cost will be waived if you come into our Portland office. If you are outside the Portland Metro area, you may do coaching via SKYPE or pay for travel time and expenses.

One last idea: Leadership Coaching makes a great gift to an employee as a reward for excellent performance or as an added feature to their benefits package and to help prepare them for a promotion or a more challenging position.