Coaching Services

Our coaching approach is based on a transformational model.  Transformational coaching seeks to go beyond helping people perform better to getting to the source of behavioral patterns and empowering people to create a shift in context or point of view about themselves with the intent of helping them learn, grow, and produce the long lasting results they truly desire. Because our coaching process is results driven, joint accountability is built into our process.

We recognize that the client-coach relationship must be synergistic to work effectively. Coaching demands a great deal of open, honest communication and feedback.  Our coaches are skilled in creating a trusting environment in which open dialogue can occur and underlying issues can be brought to light. 

• Emotional Intelligence Coaching

• Corporate Coaching

• Life Coaching

Emotional Intelligence Coaching

Compelling research shows that IQ and technical expertise are insufficient to succeed in today’s fast-paced and ever changing world and business environment. Emotional intelligence is more important than IQ and technical skills combined for outstanding human performance and leadership performance in particular.  Research has also shown that people with a high level of emotional intelligence are more successful and live a more satisfying and fulfilled life.  HD’s emotional intelligence coaching is designed to help individuals, professionals, and executives to enhance their personal and professional effectiveness and well-being. 

How do you know if emotional intelligence coaching is for you? Are you dealing with:

• Lack of focus and vision

• Low self-regard

• Emotional numbness

• Inability to assert yourself

• High stress

• Lack of motivation

• Inability to manage your emotional reactions

• Lack of self-control

• Ineffective interpersonal relationships

• Exclusive focus on intellect, logic, and reason

• Extreme individualism

• Power games

• Inability to adapt to changing demands

• Lack of optimism

• Unhappiness

Answering yes to any of the following emotional issues is an indicator that you or someone you know could benefit from emotional intelligence coaching.  Invest in yourself and your future.  Contact us now to take our on-line Emotional Quotient Inventory and to set up a coaching session designed to address your unique needs.

Follow these links for more information on:

• Emotional Intelligence

• HD's EI Coaching Process

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Corporate Coaching

Our corporate coaching involves working with individuals, groups, management teams, department heads and executives.  Our corporate coaching services have been widely used by our clients to support their leadership and professional development training programs and to address significant changes in company procedures, organizational conflict, culture change, reorganization efforts, downsizing, and other organizational improvement programs.  Our coaching is designed to empower our clients with the personal insight, resources, and skills to achieve their personal, professional, and organizational goals.

We have coached executives and professionals to:

• Improve their emotional intelligence

• Uncover self-sabotage, creating greater choice in their lives and a more solid personal foundation

• Identify their personal winning strategies

• Enhance their leadership and management skills

• Develop their personal vision and purpose

• Create work/life balance

• Avoid derailing their careers

• Think strategically

• Inspire a shared vision, mission, and values

• Support and accelerate personal and organizational change

• Transition into advanced leadership roles

• Improve business performance

• Create empowering organizational cultures

• Manage the aftermath of downsizing and reorganization

• Mange sensitive personnel issues and conflicts.

Our corporate coaching process is tailored to the unique needs of our clients. It involves 5 key steps:

• Contracting. The contracting step serves to define the client’s organizational objectives as well as individual expectations of those involved in the coaching effort before a coaching program is initiated.  Confidentiality boundaries are also defined as well as milestones, timelines, and financial arrangements.

  The nature and duration of our coaching services are strictly driven by our client’s needs and the specific professional and organizational goals they are attempting to achieve. We work with each client to define their needs and expectations and design a coaching arrangement that best suits these requirements.

• Assessment. Coaching clients are seeking to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.  Our assessment goal is to determine the client’s readiness and commitment to change. Coaching is only effective if the client wants to change. HD offers a number of qualitative and quantitative assessment methods.  Qualitatively, we have found that face-to-face interviews as well as shadowing are the best way to understand the challenges faced by the client. We also employ one or more of our validated and researched assessment products to supplement our qualitative feedback. The outcome is to target specific outcomes to be achieved through coaching.

• Action Planning.  Because people do not change simply because they want to, there must be a plan in place.  Assessment results are shared with the client with the purpose of defining areas relevant to the client’s success that can be improved through coaching. An action plan with key milestones is developed, identifying specific action steps or interventions that are needed to bring about the desired change.

• Integration. The goal of this step is to guide and support clients in implementing their action plans.  Typically this support is given through a series of monthly on-site meetings or telephone coaching sessions. It also can involve ongoing feedback regarding progress toward desired outcomes, relapse prevention support, shadowing, and just-in-time coaching.

• Evaluation. The ultimate goal of coaching is to help clients close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.  Within 3 to 6 months, an abridged follow-up assessment is conducted to assess the impact of the coaching process on the individual and/or the organization.  This enables us to determine progress and assist the coachee in refining the action plan as needed.

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Life Coaching

The pressures and demands of life often leave us feeling more divorced from ourselves and our true feelings and needs, more robotic in our existence. Many of us have forgotten our true essence. Instead of living an authentic fulfilling life, we live life by default.

The purpose of our life coaching is to awaken the human spirit and support you in leading a more conscious and authentic life.  We work in partnership with you, providing the tools, support, and structure to produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional life. We help you transform what is not working in your life to something that does.

Coaching involves a meaningful discussion about your personal goals—what is important to you and how to help you get what you want for yourself. It is also an action and results-oriented process. We will guide you but also hold you accountable for taking the action necessary for your success.  There is no magic in coaching.  The magic lies within you and your commitment to take action to realize your goals.

We work with you to:

• Set and achieve more compelling personal and professional goals.

• Increase your self-awareness and create greater choice in your life.

• Address those areas of your life that leave you feeling drained.

• Design a life that has more passion and purpose.

• Achieve work/life balance.

• Eliminate self-defeating behaviors.

• Discover and develop the attitude, behavior, and beliefs that will allow you to go beyond your pre-conceived notion of what is possible.

• Improve the quality of your relationships.

• Enhance your physical and emotional well-being.

• Focus on what truly fulfills you and gives you confidence and personal efficacy.

• Enhance the quality of your life.

Are You Ready for Life Coaching?

• Is there a gap between where you want to be and where you would like to be?

• Do you feel like you are living your life by default?Do you have clear professional goals?

• Is there an area of your life that is unfulfilling?

• Are you interested in developing yourself?

• Does fear stop you from taking action?

• Do you feel trapped by your circumstances?

• Do you feel like you were meant to do something more with your life?

• Do you feel like your life is passing you by?

• Are you ready to focus on the present and create a compelling future

• Are you willing to work hard?

• Do you have the time and resources to invest in yourself?

Answering yes to many of these questions means it is probably time to seek the services of a coach. Contact us now to explore how we can support you.  If not now, when?

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