As a business leader, your time is your most valuable asset. When you set aside time for personal development, you want to make a strong return on that investment. You expect business coaching to give you new insights into the way you run your business, and ways you can improve your leadership skills. All too often, ordinary business coaching falls short. That’s why Stanislaw Consulting is launching its new Developing Reflective Leaders program, to give you an opportunity to look at leadership coaching differently.
This is the final post in a blog series designed to help you understand Stanislaw Consulting’s Developing Reflective Leaders program, who it is for, and what sets it apart from other groups you may have attended in the past. The first post, Why Peer Advisory Groups Fail Leaders explains how Developing Reflective Leaders sets itself apart from other peer advisory groups. What Holds Reflective Leaders Back from Self-Improvement discusses the obstacles that business leaders have to overcome to make real, lasting change. In Why Holding Space for Reflection is Important this blog examines the unique benefit the program offers to busy business owners to dedicate to their development. This final post will compare Developing Reflective Leaders to business coaching options offered by other professionals, and from the one-on-one executive coaching Stanslaw Consulting is already known for.
Why Ordinary Business Coaching Falls Short
Many business owners and leaders have signed on to work with a business coach only to feel stuck, like they are wasting time. If you start working with the wrong coach, you may find you are not making progress, or continue to see the same challenges and mistakes again and again. While this could simply be a mis-match of personalities or communication styles, it may also be because your business coach is taking the wrong approach.
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There is an old (often false) adage that “those who can’t do, teach.” While many capable and competent teachers have the expertise to make it in their chosen industry, it is true that in the world of professional development, “business coaches” are often people who no longer want to do the work of being an entrepreneur themselves, so instead they try to pass on their wisdom to the next generation of business leaders. That can be useful for a time, especially if your coach has specialized knowledge about your industry. But it often falls short of giving coaching clients true insight into why their business operates the way it does.
The problem is that all too often, business coaching focuses on the company and its systems, rather than the people in it. Coaches with a focus on systems and strategies may approach your business’s challenges solely from an intellectual, problem-solving perspective. They may offer referrals, programs, and other tools, and prescribe solutions to your problems without giving you the space to interrogate or understand the underlying cause of the conflict.
Stanislaw Consulting Takes a Different Approach
David Stanislaw and Karen Sherwood, the executive and leadership coaches at Stanislaw Consulting take a different approach to business coaching. Both our coaches are trained in psychoanalysis, with a history of psychological therapy. They bring a brain and mind that looks at their coaching clients as people with strengths and limitations, and their own unique emotional make up. The first goal of Stanislaw Consulting’s one-on-one executive coaching is to understand what our clients want from their time with us, and identify the obstacles they face to get there.
For example, one of David’s former clients came to him with a desire to understand why people were such a mystery to her. She struggled to communicate effectively with her employees the way her partner could. David helped her realize that she seldom considered emotion, and when she did, she saw it as an interference to be brushed aside. David was able to help her understand the positive ways emotions can influence business.
Taking a psychoanalytical approach, David and Karen don’t tell their clients what to do. Stanislaw Consulting isn’t interested in offering suggestions. Instead our coaches help our clients look inward to discover how they are contributing to the problems they are facing. We help them identify and eliminate blind spots through thoughtful questions, inviting reflection, insight, and growth.
Developing Reflective Leaders Brings Insight in a Unique Group Setting
Now, Stanislaw Consulting is taking this approach one step further. Developing Reflective Leaders, is a new executive coaching opportunity that builds on our coaches’ psychotherapeutic knowledge and experience. It invites business leaders to come together in a dynamic, open-ended, small-group setting, with a goal of tuning into your emotions and exploring how those emotions shape your decisions.
David and Karen act as facilitators, giving participants a unique lens through which to see things normally unseen about the way they do business. This could be why you struggle to close sales or the effect of chaos on your motivation and emotional availability in your work, just to name a few. By examining these less-than-conscious influences, participants gain useful and valuable insight that will lead to lasting growth.
The small group size, minimum six-month commitment, and participants’ pledge to confidentiality come together to create a reliable support structure built on trust and collaboration toward mutual growth. Under the guidance of our trained facilitators, participants will share their own insights and related experiences, giving you the benefit of their unique perspective you may never have considered before.
We are offering leaders a 30 min complimentary meeting to discuss and explore a current challenge. We believe this introduction will offer you a taste of the group experience. Contact us to sign up for the Developing Reflective Leaders experience today.
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