Do you need
Executive Power Coach?
Trade
secret: All good coaches have a coach! Shouldn't you?
No two executives are alike and no two
executive career management or career coaching situations are alike. At
Executive Power Coach, we recognize and celebrate your unique abilities
and circumstances and structure a customized program to meet your specific
needs.
Despite individual circumstances there are
common scenarios that executives experience. These are just a sampling of situations that we
successfully strategize and resolve with our clients. Read on to see if you recognize yourself in
any of these profiles, then review our executive
success readiness assessment to determine how prepared you are to
out-compete and succeed in today's business environment. We'd be honored to partner with you
to achieve your goals.
Is this you?
You are a highly successful senior executive. Your main goal is to
continue to grow your skills and profit from your abilities.
You've
paid your dues, you've planned your moves, you've achieved much of the
success you desire. You're wondering if a career advisor can notch you up
from "good" to "great."
Is this you?
You are a successful executive. You are on the journey, or have reached
your career destination, but you are finding the road to be harder and lonelier
than you imagined.
The cost in personal time and values compromise is
more than you expected. You want to maintain your career growth, but
become more "who you really are" at work.
Is this you?
You have been a successful senior executive. Now the unimaginable has
happened and you've been "rightsized."
Life was good to you.
You worked hard and saw the fruits of your labors materialize in a
successful company, elite compensation, and social status. Now you are
angry, confused, and at a loss for how to begin a job search.
Is this you?
You are a successful manager nearing time for promotion to your first
director- or VP-level position.
You know you can do the work, but you
want to contribute quickly. You wish that you had more experience working
the internal political machine. You want to become a respected leader and
valued executive team player. You wish you could brainstorm about these
things with some colleagues, but you are reluctant to show
"weakness."
Is this you?
You are a successful C-level executive who has had a great
relationship with your core management team. Now your company has merged
with a competitor.
The integration was tough but has been achieved.
However, many of your colleagues were casualties of the acquisition and
your personal and professional "integration" is not going as
well as you had hoped. You want to prove your adaptability and make a
contribution and you want to do it soon.
Is this you?
You are a 55+ executive who is looking for work for the first time in
years.
You are afraid that the rumors you have heard about the
"corporate youth culture" are true and that you will not be
offered a job with the responsibilities and compensation your senior-status
deserves. You are feeling vulnerable and your confidence needs a sizeable
boost.
Is this you?
You are successful, you are compensated well, you are happy in your
job, but you wonder if there just isn't something even better around the
corner.
If the economy is marginal, you may be afraid that your job
may disappear. If the economy is hot, you may be wondering if you are
missing great opportunities. Either way, you do not want to conduct a
traditional recruiter/want-ad job campaign. You want confidentiality and
you want ideas for ways to run a strategic, solutions-based job search.
Is this you?
You head a small-to-large company or HR department. Despite all
efforts to avoid it, you must cut staff. You want to provide the best
outplacement possible at the most affordable cost.
You want to be sure
the service is reality-based, personal, and effective. You do not want a
large, often impersonal outplacement specialist firm, but you do not know
how to determine the competency of a smaller, more personal career
services firm. You need help moving forward on this.
Still
not sure you need career support?
To help you determine if you can benefit from executive career management
coaching and /or resume support, we've
prepared a short quiz. Your answers to these questions will tell you
how equipped you are to manage and advance your career.
- I understand my executive skills and capabilities and know how to map
them to multiple employment choices.
Yes No
- I know what traditional and leading-edge resources to utilize
in performing background research on companies and job opportunities.
Yes No
- I know that my executive resume needs to use my
executive brand and my accomplishments to sell my potential to do the
job I want. It can no longer be a "career biography." My
resume must be a marketing tool.
Yes No
- I am comfortable with the idea of networking, and understand
how to "pyramid" my initial contacts into a vastly larger pool of contacts.
Yes No
- I have developed a good system to manage my contacts as I move
through the various stages of job search and ongoing career .
Yes No
- I understand the vital importance of being
“pro-active” as opposed to being “re-active” in my
job search and career planning.
Yes No
- I know the difference between broadcast mailings and targeted
direct mailings, and when to use them.
Yes No
- I understand how to use the Internet to research companies and
to broadcast my candidacy.
Yes No
- I know how to effectively handle the “re-active”
aspects of the job search, including best ways to effectively respond to want-ads,
Internet postings, and executive recruiters.
Yes No
- I understand the executive recruiter world. I know how to deal with
it and leverage it.
Yes No
- I feel fully prepared to go into the interview process, can
anticipate most traditional and new interviewing techniques, and have practiced answers to a
multitude of possible questions.
Yes No
- I am aware of the different interview settings in which I may
be placed and will not be surprised by these new practices.
Yes No
- I know the how, when, and where of proper follow-up with
companies, recruiters, and networking contacts.
Yes No
- When offered a position, I know how to evaluate the package, and
when necessary, professionally negotiate for a better one.
Yes No
- I know that I need to plan for my next position while in my
current position, no matter how rewarded or secure I may feel.
Yes No
- I know the value of a fully developed career portfolio and how
to create and maintain one.
Yes No
- I know how to stand for my ethical
beliefs in any business environment.
Yes No
How did you do?
If you have just a few "no"
answers, you will benefit from a coaching program. Even a quick "refresher
session" or a few hot spot "laser" sessions may help.
If you have a number of
"no" answers, or most of your answers are "no,"
and you want the best chance for success in this marketplace, then you
absolutely NEED career support that integrates the
best in personal branding, resume, and coaching modalities.
Deb Dib and
her team may be your answer
We work with people who share your reality. We provide a listening,
affirming, and safe environment where you can begin to identify your core
values and the life- and career-enhancing answers that lie within you. You
become the change agent for your life and career. You become your own best
advocate. You become you. Transformations abound.
If you need help, give
us a call. It will be our pleasure to work with you to beef up you skills and meet the
challenges of the new workplace.
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