Small Business Strategies

Key Personnel Coaching

Key Personnel Coaching is a unique client/coach interaction, built from organizational expectations and attuned to individual client's values and goals. The coach serves as a "performance partner" to fully support professionals in attaining their highest leadership goals. Coaching results in improved performance and reenergized careers. Coaching sessions are often used to enhance communication, strengthen strategic and operational planning, plan career growth, and reinforce essential leadership competencies.

Navigating Opportunity: Organization undergoing significant technological changes wanted its management team to manage changes expeditiously and lead staff to embrace new systems. Coaching provided a forum to improve leadership skills and overcome resistance to change. QUASI-PUBLIC ENTITY IN MASSACHUSETTS

How does coaching work?

Generally, the individual or the organization recognizes an unmet need, talent or opportunity and chooses one-on-one coaching as the method to address these concerns. Julie Bernardin, M.Ed. meets initially with the organization's representative to assess needs and set goals. The first coaching session includes agreement on goals as set by organizational mandate, and alignment with individual values and goals. Ongoing sessions address needs, concerns and achievements, using current situations to achieve targeted goals. My role as coach is to focus on the client's agenda, offer insight or challenges as appropriate and to support the client in achieving phenomenal success.

What about scheduling?

A variety of options is available, depending on organizational and individual needs. Sessions generally range from one half-hour to two hours, either weekly or biweekly, for as long (or short) a period as needed. Sessions can be in person or on the telephone.

What about Tools?

Julie administers the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Skillscope 360 Feedback, Skillscan and other tools as needed.