Tenacious issues can really hurt business potential.
Often, leaders and leadership teams bump up against stubborn dilemmas that keep them from hitting their targets. For teams, these can include difficult team dynamics, conflict, silos, and lack of accountability. The barriers for leaders may be an over-emphasis on functional skills at the expense of leadership skills, or coming down too hard—or not hard enough—when dealing with problematic staff behaviors.
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"Tom grasped the dynamics of our leadership team very quickly, and facilitated team sessions that allowed us to function at a much higher level. His calm, yet highly effective style has been extremely beneficial in organizational, operational, and personal coaching sessions with various work groups and individuals throughout our organization."
Larry Day
General Manager,
Marketing Operations
Chevron Products
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We work with leaders and leadership teams to resolve the stubborn dilemmas that keep them from meeting their business goals and realizing their potential.
Here are some issues our clients have faced:
- “My CFO is great at finance, but rubs his staff the wrong way.”
- “I just can’t get my VPs to work together. Don’t they know teamwork is critical to our success?”
- “My head of marketing comes up with great ideas. But she’s a perfectionist who takes forever to act on the ideas. When I talk to her about her slow execution she agrees—but nothing changes.”
- “My CIO insists on doing all the challenging projects himself. Says he wants to make sure they get done right. Then his staff complains to me that he doesn’t trust them and that they’re not being developed.”
- “There’s no accountability on my team. When things go wrong or come in late, all they do is point fingers.”
- “Our staff meetings are a disaster. We constantly get sidetracked, and never finish our agenda. When I ask for input, only two people respond, the others sit just there.”
See detailed case studies here.
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST
Biotech/Pharmaceutical
Abbott Diabetes Care
Amylin Pharmaceuticals
EMD Biosciences
Gilead Sciences
MedImmune
Tularik
Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies
Financial Services
Chevron Federal Credit Union
Coopers & Lybrand, CPAs
Federal Home Loan Bank of SF
Federal Reserve Bank of SF
Kinecta Federal Credit Union
Travis Credit Union
WesCorp Credit Union
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"Tom is a great guy and easy to work with. As a result of his coaching with my team, we have achieved our personal performance goals. The team is much more highly developed and I have a higher performing team. Personally, I have gotten better at dealing with staff and letting go. I am delegating more and delegating more intelligently."
Jeff Bialik
Vice President of Operations
and CFO
Golden Gate University
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Health Care, Non-Profit, Higher Education
Delta Dental Plan
Dominican University of California
Electric Power Research Institute
Golden Gate University
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Kaiser Permanente
NorthBay Healthcare System
St. Luke's Hospital
San Francisco Film Society
Stanford University
UC Hastings Law School
High Tech
Applied Materials
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hyperion
Intel Corporation
International Rectifier
Nortel Networks
Philips Components
Sun Microsystems
Energy, Consumer Products
Chevron Corporation
Clorox Company
Kellogg Company
Levi Strauss & Co.
Sun-Maid Growers
Learn more about our approach.
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