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MEMBERSHIP IN A TEC CANADA PEER EXECUTIVE GROUP
Expertise: TEC membership can give your business a significant return on investment. The ROI from tapping into the experience and expertise of your peer group and Chair will help grow new ways of generating revenue. Your business will flourish. Monthly confidential group meetings with business leaders from non-competing industries provide a safe and stimulating environment to fast-track personal and professional growth.
Growth and Development: 90% of long-term members felt TEC helped improve their business profitability and life balance.
My members state our rigorous group process to help you choose the optimum path to resolve issues, face challenges and capture opportunities is the most valued activity they get from membership. As a teaser, here is a snippet of a typical TEC Canada meeting where a member is being helped by the group in dealing with an issue [Vistage is the TEC brand name in the USA]:
Global Community: Connect with over 25,000 business leaders around the world to leverage their knowledge and insights and grow your business.
Your Own Personal Coach: As an ICF certified coach, I provide one-to-one coaching that accelerates your ability to grow strategically and overcome hurdles faster.
Inspiring Speakers: TEC’s exclusive access to expert speakers infuse group meetings with the most current thought leadership. Get MBA-calibre knowledge that’s actionable now.
A World of Expertise: Our global membership expands your network to over 25,000 members worldwide. Connect with local, national, and international leaders who have overcome challenges like yours.
Member Testimonials:
Available Groups:
- The TEC CEO group is designed for CEOs, presidents, owners, and leaders of large enterprises with a vision and drive for developing sustainable businesses in our global economy. Connection in this group will help you champion innovation and collaboration within your organization while strengthening your leadership skills.
- The KEY Executive group is devised for senior executives that want to become outstanding leaders and CEOs. We help improve your personal performance, broaden your network, and build the skills necessary to surpass your personal and business limitations. This group will push your leadership abilities to get you to the next level.
INDIVIDUAL COACHING AND ADVISORY
As a graduate of the Adler School of Professional Coaching, I follow the Adler guiding principles:
- Every human being is creative and self–creating.
- Every human being is by nature meaning–seeking and meaning–making.
- Every human being has unique strengths and gifts with which to create a meaningful life.
Values and purpose are at the core of my approach to learning, coaching, working, and living.
“Personal values are not lofty abstractions, but intimate credos that we may never quite articulate in words so much as feel. Our values translate into what has emotional power or resonance for us, whether negative or positive.” – Daniel Goleman
Personal purpose is your compelling reason to be. It gives meaning to your life and work. It is the golden thread that runs through life and work, showing up when you’re at your best. It guides your choices. It shapes the direction of your life. The clearer you are on purpose, the more intentionally you can live your life.
“A purpose is an ongoing commitment to a principle that becomes who you are. It is not a belief or a goal to be achieved, but a place to come from. It is not what you do, but who you are being.” – Nicholas Lore
I follow an appreciative, strengths–based approach to generate positive change. Appreciative inquiry, in the words of its founder, David Cooperrider, focuses attention on “the best of the past and present”, in order to “ignite the collective imagination of what might be.” My vision for coaching is aligned with his for appreciative inquiry, that “the arduous task of intervention will give way to the speed of imagination and innovation, and instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there will be discovery, dream, and design.”
My approach is consistent with the co–active approach to coaching, specifically with the importance of the mutuality and collaborative nature of the relationship between yourself and myself, and the notion that coaching is a process involving you as a fully resourceful person, in service of your agenda.
“If there is a discrepancy between action and value, the result will be uneasiness in the form of guilt and shame, deep doubts or nagging second thoughts, queasiness or remorse, and the like. Such uneasiness acts as an emotional drag, stirring feelings that can hinder or sabotage our efforts. Choices made in keeping with this inner rudder, on the other hand, are energizing.” – Daniel Goleman
Your goals for change may fall into three categories:
- Performance
- Learning
- Fulfillment
Goals in these three categories are inter– related. Fulfillment provides the basic motivation for performance and learning goals. I facilitate change through working with your:
- Awareness
- Choice
- Trust in Essential Self
As you gain greater awareness of yourself and your world, expand your choices for effective action, and develop self–trust so that you move forward on your intention, you start to take more effective actions that lead you towards your goals.
I will enhance awareness, expand choice, and build self–trust over time through:
- Conversation
- Relationship
- Process
TEAM COACHING
I follow the Living Systems Approach TM for team coaching which is a results-oriented process that takes teams from where they are to where they want to be. The Coach is a collaborative partner with the team, learning with them and adjusting to their wants and needs.
The Team Coaching approach
- Engaging the spirit by taking a positive, appreciative approach to discover team strengths.
- Involving the mind/body experience to raise awareness.
- Fostering trust and alignment between team members.
- Capturing the team’s vision: both being and doing.
- Maintaining an abundance frame; focus on possibilities.
- Eliciting values for inspiration and decision-making.
- Moving from the individual to the collective and honour the differences.
- Supporting change.
- Developing habits that result in internalization of the change and making new behaviors visible.
Coach’s Role in Team Coaching
- Creating an environment of safety and trust: no scapegoating and maintaining a facilitative stance.
- Linking coaching to vision, values, and current relevant issues.
- Co-creating an agenda and plans of action, relevant to the context with the team’s sponsor or leader.
- Holding the notion of coaching as a process of change over time.
- Ensuring that the team members own their personal reactions and responsibilities by supporting accountability.
- Tracking commitments and accountabilities during and in between coaching sessions.
- Observing, noticing what is happening and feeding it back to the group.
Confidentiality and trust are agreed upon at the beginning of the process.
Which teams can benefit?
- Teams that must meet a deadline and there is a perceived risk that they won’t make it.
- High potential teams that want to raise the bar.
- Teams with individuals who are working together for the first time.
- Dysfunctional teams that need to get back on track.
- Teams that have been given a mandate and are not sure how to proceed with it.
- Merging Teams.
- Leadership Teams.
This approach transforms teams through conversations and experiences that evolve from the group’s unique culture, context, and mandate. The approach can be described as emergent, as it focuses on what is happening in the moment and coaches forward from there. Dialogues and activities created by the coach, engage team members in being fully present in the here and now, with who they are being, and what they are doing. Potential for creating a new future is thus increased, instead of giving energy to the past and recreating past difficulties.
With groups in serious conflict, it may be difficult to believe that such an emergent process working at a deep level can be effective. In urgent situations, it can seem like putting out immediate fires is the only option. It sometimes seems like a monumental task to turn a team around, possibly an impossible one. Your authentic confidence in the team’s ability to create a positive outcome will have a major impact on the result.
The difference between one-on-one and team coaching is the need to have the whole team aligned on how they will move forward together. The process flows from individual to collaborative agenda, beginning sometimes with self-exploration, and other times with collective exploration, depending on the agenda at any given moment.