What We Do
Leadership Coaching
Turn your flaws into strengths.
Reframe your story and disrupt the status quo to achieve effective solutions.
Workplaces and team environments are becoming more and more unpredictable and leaders who resist or remain comfortable in stagnation will not satisfy the ever-evolving leadership demands. Being authentic, vulnerable and transparent are crucial for leaders who desire to carry the mantle and exceed expectations. ECI offers unique one-on-one coaching that helps clients unpack and peel back the layers; making room for new ways of being. Through this experience, new behaviors and perspectives emerge which are conducive for improving efficiency and effectiveness.
Who is it for?
Our leadership coaching is a best fit for individuals who are:
- Open to doing something different to get different results
- Ready to be vulnerable and self-reflect
- Eager to embrace reality and confront the hard stuff
- Comfortable (or open) to be uncomfortable
- Willing to trust the process
What is the impact?
Leaders who embark on this coaching journey will:
- Become more aware of blind spots
- Develop realistic solutions to improving or shaping their reality
- Appreciate various perspectives
- Increase capacity to receive and deliver on another level
- Stretch beyond normal parameters
- Be better equipped to manage conflict or difficult situations
- Build self-confidence and presence
- Work through leadership impediments
Leadership Consulting
Who is it for?
Our leadership consulting is ideal for leaders or organizations that are:
- Newly formed and ready to establish norms and develop a solid foundation
- In breakdown or crisis
- Ready to shake up the status quo and move to the next level
- Experiencing a disconnect and could benefit from a third-party (unbiased) perspective
- In need of strategic guidance and direction
What is the impact?
The outcomes of leadership consulting are:
- High morale and team cohesion
- Improved communication and collaboration
- Increased engagement and exceptional service delivery
- More positive work relationships (internal and external)
- Well-defined, established long-term strategic goals and objectives (including key initiatives and concrete milestones)
Leadership Training
Who is it for?
Our leadership training is for:
- New leaders/ first-time supervisors (recently appointed within the last 12 months)
- Aspiring leaders
- Leaders who could use a refresher
- Teams experiencing Us versus Them barriers; a common challenge between leaders and staff
- Leaders experiencing infighting or other breakdowns/disconnects
- Subject matter experts who are promoted to a leadership role
What is the impact?
Leadership training will:
- Provide new leaders necessary tools for success
- Expose aspiring leaders to a realistic purview of leadership
- Re-engage or ignite a passion for effective leadership
- Find common ground between leaders and subordinates to improve relationships and communication
- Establish a seamless transition plan from subject matter expert to leader
- Design a robust strategy for maximizing productivity and increasing performance
- Expand leadership horizons and capacity
The Benefits of Working with ECI
Level Up
Gives the individual an opportunity to define their career goals in a realistic way. With the assistance of a coach, individuals can set goals and then actively work towards them. This will increase the likelihood that the goals will be achieved.
Enhanced Connections
When individuals are engaged, they are able to contribute more effectively to the team and the organization. This engagement also helps to increase employee retention rates for the organization.
Deeper level of learning
Coaching isn’t just about improving an individual’s skills in the workplace; it takes learning to an even deeper level. Through coaching, an individual can learn more about themselves. They can find out how they are perceived by others and improve on areas of their personalities and even their lives that they are not satisfied with.
Safe place to gain perspective
Having a coach gives the individual a safe place to go and talk through sensitive issues. They can then gain perspective without feeling intimidated by someone within their own organization.
Build a Personal Awareness
A coach is able to offer clients ways to improve themselves, but more importantly they can help them become aware of the “blind spots”. These blind spots are areas of the individual’s work or personality that they may not see.
Support for Improving Specific Skills
Having support for improving skills can be extremely beneficial. Knowing that someone is there to help you achieve goals is an important part of the coaching process. These specific skills can include communication, delegation, conflict management, team building, and persuasion.
Difference Between Coaching & Consulting
“Coaching is often likened to consulting. However, there are distinct differences between these disciplines. A consultant is usually a specialist in a given area. They are hired to give recommendations and provide solutions. A consultant works with a client to solve a particular problem or to address a specific issue. Once the problem is solved or the issue addressed, the consultant leaves. Generally, a consultant doesn’t get involved with areas outside of their specialty. Coaching uses a more holistic approach. With the client, the coach examines the situation, creates a plan of action, and works side by side to resolve the issue. The coach does not have to be an expert in the client’s business. The client is the expert. The coach collaborates with the client to create a solution using the client’s knowledge and answers.
While people, and companies, will often choose a coach who has previous experience or expertise in the field that they work in, the coaching methodology does not require this. Consultants however, build their businesses around the knowledge they have gathered over time in the specific field in which they then offer consulting expertise. They are expected to provide advice, information and anecdotes about the field. The coach, on the other hand, does not have the answers and does not claim to have them. They have the questions that allow the client to find their own answers and clarify their own values.”