SkyLab Executive Coaching is about helping you to become an extraordinary leader. This process is supported through powerful conversations that you have with your coach, over time. The benefits to you, as the client, and to your organization are tremendous.

SkyLab Executive Coaching helps you to transform what it is for you to be a leader within the corporate setting. You find that leadership is a function of your ability to clearly define what it is that you want. At that point you can begin enrolling others in your vision such that you produce expanded results for yourself, your business, your employees, and your entire life.

• Strengthen your ability to perform in your current role, and/or
• Further demonstrate requisite competencies for advancement

:: POTENTIAL CANDIDATES

• Established leaders who desire a strategic partner to plot a new course for their department and their company.
• Talented but relatively inexperienced managers who figure into the company's long range plans. These are employees whose development the company is willing to invest in.
• Technically proficient employees who may lack the "softer" people skills that they will need in order to become truly effective leaders.
• Leaders who may be approaching a burnout phase and need assistance in reestablishing their priorities as well as a balance between their work and their life.

:: HOW WE DO IT

SkyLab works with successful business people by teaching you how to lead with confidence, market yourself and your ideas, and maintain focus and attention on what you want for yourself and your life.

• We help you do what you don't want to do, but that which will take your performance to another level.
• We communicate with you in terms of what's possible for your future. It's not about your past.
• We help you take risks…Enroll others to your intended outcomes…Become unstoppable in the face of your professional challenges.
• We help you maintain your focus.

:: SCOPE

Engagements can cover:

• Leadership And Personal Development
• Self Marketing & Career Management
• Goal Setting & Achievement
• Managing Change
• Conflict Resolution
• Communication And Presentation
• Team Development And Empowerment

Completion will help you to:

• Understand more clearly how others perceive your strengths and development opportunities.
• Uncover your leadership skills.
• Develop a range of effective communication/presentation styles and strategies.
• Develop long-term career and personal goals – work/life balance.
• Identify stress factors and develop appropriate stress management strategies.
• Identify a range of ongoing professional/personal development options.

Fortune Magazine Research

Fortune Magazine (Fortune 2/19/01) reported the results of a poll of mostly FORTUNE 1000 companies: The respondents were executives from large companies who had participated in either “improvement” or “growth” oriented coaching for 6-12 months. The survey demonstrated that the participants valued the coaching at 6X the cost paid by their company. So, an $18,000 executive coaching program investment generated value at approximately $108,000. These benefits were also realized:

• Better relationships with direct reports (77%),
  Bosses (71%),
  Peers (68%), and
  Clients (37%)
• Increase in job satisfaction (61%)
• Less likely to quit (44%)

Additional long term benefits include the following:

The Organization

• Develops leaders in a way that is consistent with the organization's values and vision.
• Enhances the Executive's individual and team effectiveness in achieving business objectives.
• Identifies challenging goals that stretch the talents of leaders.

The Executive

• Further develops leadership competencies such as:
  visionary and strategic thinking,
  execution ability,
  influencing skills,
  organizational savvy,
  leading and managing change,
  interpersonal effectiveness, and
  conflict resolution strategies

• Grows leadership capabilities through honest, objective, customized assessment and feedback.