Your Leadership: How Powerful is it?

IB Coaching is an innovative and dynamic organization committed to delivering leading-edge solutions to business. We understand leaders and what affects them. The process we use provides the expertise, support, methodology and tools to effect lasting and sustainable change, both to the business bottom line and to the people aspect of the organization. We know how to move leaders into positive action through planned interventions and we know the theoretical perspectives and how to apply them practically.  

Leadership looks deceptively easy for on-lookers.  They don’t know how living in this pressure cooker environment for years undermines a leader being able to deliver ongoing sustainable outcomes.  Sometimes you’re on a high because everything is going so well, it all seems so effortless and then suddenly you think you’re going nuts and losing the plot because things went pear shaped.  You wonder why others can’t see what is going on when it is blatantly obvious to you.  And the big risk is burnout, with all that hard work going down the gurgler.

Some organizations realize they have to put the time and effort into developing their leaders because the so called level playing field has either gone or taken a beating with the increased competitiveness of the global market but most don’t provide their leaders with enough – if any – development because they just expect them to know what to do.  What development they do provide is usually ‘training’ as they don’t know what else to look for or what else actually works.   

Training provides knowledge and gives participants information but it does not provide them with the strategies, guidance or support to change what is not working well in the workplace.  Training also doesn’t ask them the ‘tough’ questions that elicit insights.

When organizations have unrealistic expectations of their leaders and don’t provide them with ongoing development, it is unlikely that the business will operate optimally.

With leaders under constant pressure, when they’re not taking time out to think, plan or to really clarify what they are doing and where these behaviours are not seen as a legitimate benefit, it’s no wonder many fine businesses go down the tube.  Get used to the idea that you don’t have to work yourself to death to prove you are a successful leader.  Learn how to work hard and smart.  Identify what behaviours don’t serve you well and change them, remembering to always bring it back to the bottom line:  if I do this, I will get this outcome for those I lead and for the organization as a whole.

As you might imagine it can bring huge financial and personal benefits to any organization when they know and understand how to implement and work with systems and processes that deliver peak performance.  When these structures are in place and adhered to the business gains many benefits. You have to be action oriented and solution focused.  You can’t let personal flaws, nervousness or self doubts get in the way. 

Realization that quite possibly I have another five careers in me and that’s quite enlightening to me; I haven’t looked at it like that before.

Mental stimulation, the executive coaching opens up windows for me.  It’s like opening a door and all these opportunities are waiting for me, staring at me in the face and I didn’t even know they were there. It is liberating.

Insights into myself; these sessions are so beneficial, uplifted by them and the energy doesn’t disappear.  It’s constantly in my subconscious and I have a new awareness about what I say, what I do and whose agenda it is.

I am a lot clearer in knowing that I won’t be doing what I am doing now in the next five years.  I understand where I am now.  Previously to this work I was not aware, didn’t have a future.

The process Merydith uses is unique to any other I have experienced. She approaches the whole leadership-training role from a unique perspective. Merydith does not lecture in a direct sense; rather she builds an initial framework, providing starting cues and ideas, and through the use of self-reflection she allows the participants to create a vision for themselves, allowing you to formulate a development and improvement process that is tailored to your individual needs and leadership style.