There are typically two benefits a good coach brings to the table: One encompasses counseling skills that enable the coach to aid the client to grow and shift paradigms. This is the most common kind of coach in the market today. This type of coach may have solid (or advertised) counseling skills but very little business acumen to accelerate or refine advice.

The other, more rarer, type of coach is one who has had experience in leadership and business and can provide council at a much more effective level that translates into more accurate insight and faster development. For example, a coach that has business experience garners the credibility to challenge the client much earlier in the relationship. It takes much less time to start producing results.

Joe's coaching incorporates both exceptional counseling skills as well as real-world business and leadership experience that accelerate the process and stimulates more change and progress.

Joe's background as a entrepreneur, CEO, banker and consultant provide a high-value benefit that is rare among coaches. People tend to hire coaches for any combination of the five following reasons and Joe can provide stellar results for all of them.

Reason 1: As a way to accelerate the development of a highly successful professional. This often is in conjunction with some new responsibilities or change initiative. This kind of coaching is often designed to facilitate the individual to be able to broaden the scope of their work, increase their leadership responsibilities and/or adapt to leadership challenges that the market-place is bringing about.

Reason 2: A high performer shows such promise that there is a desire to accelerate her/his development to maximize their contribution. The hope is that their success individually or with a small team will translate into a broader role managing more people.

Reason 3: A highly educated or technically experienced professional who's knowledge equips them for a greater role, but their lack of experience leaves them with a deficient in management experience.  There are many highly educated or experienced professionals in health-care, law, accounting, banking and other fields who need help navigating and evolving so to be able to produce results in a management capacity.

Reason 4: A professional has great strengths in certain areas and deficits in others, and the deficits are holding them back or creating problems with the team.

Reason 5: Succession planning. The need to replace a successful leader that is headed towards retirement often forces directors or partners to recognize that the great strength of one leader is permitting a deficit to exist in a subordinate leader; and the rapidly approaching departure creates an urgency for growth among one or more subordinate leaders that will fill the vacuum.

Joe is adapt at dealing with all of these scenarios and is very outcome oriented. He works to identify up-front the result you want so to turn what is often treated as a soft investment into solid outcomes that justify the investment.

There is a 6th reason that coaches are hired and that is to help a high-achieving talent to avoid or recover from burn-out. Joe is unique in that he has lived a life where he walks his talk as articles in the Wall Street Journal and Professional Speaker have shown in relation to achieving at high levels while at the same time maintaining "positive tension" (some call balance). Joe can coach people how to build and preserve relationships, energy, creativity and health. In fact this often becomes a natural side-benefit of most of Joe's coaching relationships.

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