“In the new business environment, results are achieved not through command, authority and control, but by facilitating the highest and best contributions of people throughout the organization. To this end, an entirely new approach to leadership is required – one that is grounded in strong relationships, conscious influence, targeted enrollment, keen perception, comfort with risk taking, and facilitation of conversations. Facilitative Leadership is proven effective in helping leaders and organizations accelerate results in the face of emerging business challenges.” Judith E. Glaser
For over 25 years, Benchmark has served as a Consultant and as an Executive Coach to Fortune 50 to l Fortune 500 leaders, their teams and organizations. Our comprehensive Facilitative & Conversational Coaching Approach starts at the executive level, and moves to encompass concentric circles of engagement; few companies approach coaching in this innovative manner.
Our Coaching Approach is designed to assist senior executives in handling the challenges of rapidly changing environments. By creating self and organizational awareness of the impact we have on others, the people learn to positively impact the change process and expand the organization’s capacity for adapting to, and creating change. People are the change motivators.
Developing self-awareness and connecting intention and impact are key outcomes of all our coaching engagements. Leaders, and their teams learn to raise the bar for their success and learn to expand their capacity to contribute to the organization.
In all cases, executives and their teams expand their capacity to positively influence the organization to achieve success. We help executives explore their leadership, team and organizational aspirations and to focus on developmental opportunities for growth, address blind spots, and practice innovative ways to tackle their competitive challenges.
We offer a comprehensive suite of Executive and Leadership Coaching services including but not limited to:
- Executive Coaching – Executives taking on new senior positions, or expanding existing positions, are always faced with new challenges, new relationships, many risks, and extraordinary opportunities for personal and enterprise growth. When we couple the personal challenges of leadership with the fast paced shifts in the competitive landscape, it is understandable that leaders choose to include executive coaching as part of their own development process.
- Developmental Coaching – We’ve identified that high performance leaders can benefit from sharpening their WE-centric leaderships skills. Developmental Coaching helps these leaders become more aware of the impact they have on others and how to leverage their strengths in new and more effective ways.
- The First 100 Days – When an executive joins a company, they need to build a new platform for leadership and organizational success. We have developed a CEO Playbook that helps an executive focus on what's important and essential for success – when and how – during these initial key days.
- Targeted Coaching – Sometimes a longer-term coaching process is not necessary. Rather what is needed is Targeted Coaching. This process is designed to get at the heart of specific developmental needs and coaching goals quickly, efficiently, and in a shorter timeframe than traditional coaching.
- Unscripted Leadership Coaching – Being 'in the moment' in difficult situations enables a leader to connect with people and increase the quality of trust between themselves and their people. Too often we go into fear – and resort to 'fight, flight or freeze' behaviors – and lose our cool in the face of negativity or emotionality. This coaching process helps executives stay in the 'now' where they can access higher-levels of insight and wisdom to facilitate healthy dialogue.
- Transition and LifeCycle Coaching – When leaders are stepping into new positions, taking on larger responsibilities, taking on special assignments, or expanding into larger organizational responsibilities, LifeCycle Coaching helps prepare them for stepping into a more expansive leadership role.
- “Presencing” and WE-centric Presence Coaching – Leadership presence is vital to leaders aspiring to have more influence in their organizations. Our process enables leaders to realize how they set the tone in establishing their culture, and therefore how to step up to the enterprise challenges from a more a WE-centric point of view.