Executive Coaching and Mentoring

Leadership. No company can survive without it. In manufacturing, a stable executive force drives your company forward. And in today’s active marketplace, your company can’t afford to lose the individuals who play key leadership roles in your organization.

So how can you avoid the kinds of leadership crises that grind a company’s progress to a halt? What do your executives need to keep them growing at the same pace that put them in a leadership position in the first place? And most of all, how do you encourage these key people to stay with your company and not go elsewhere?

At Birch Consulting Group, healing wounded companies often requires coaching and mentoring valued executives so they stay at the top of the game. With 30 years of experience in all apsects of manufacturing, we’ve developed strategies that help executives cope with the demands of process improvement and agile manufacturing.

Let’s look at an example of coaching in action. The newly promoted executive has spent most of his career in a tactical role, but now he’s now faced with strategic and cultural demands. He’s no longer “in the trenches.” Now he’s forced to delegate. And brainstorming with peers threatens accepted roles. After all, he’s the boss now.

A coach can educate a new executive about the logistics of leadership, without the threat of rejection by peers or criticism from superiors. In these early days, the new leader can practice on his coach, bounce solutions around, and express insecurities freely. In turn, the coach can teach him how to navigate around minefields, and explain how his decisions impact enterprise-wide goals and initiatives.

Let’s look at more ways coaching and mentoring benefits your organization:

• Inspire innovative solutions to persistent problems.
• Encourage creative initiatives which might be inhibited in internal communications.
• Provide a wider network of experts and resources for guidance on one-time problems.
• Stay focused on strategic objectives and not become sidetracked by day to day business.
• Communicate about stress, conflicts, and “what ifs” outside of executive committee meetings or company retreats.

By giving your leaders a fresh perspective and an objective sounding board, Birch Consulting Group shows your executive force how to grow within your organization – not outside of it. Call us today and keep your valued leaders at the top of their form.