Coaching is a process of enabling others to succeed. Coaching builds upon an individual’s personal goals, desire for improvement, and impetus to succeed within the organization.

Coaching leverages self-improvement with the need to fulfill the organizational mission.

John helps executives to adopt and modify behaviors that will enable them to lead more effectively. Specific topics John coaches include:

- Preparing to lead at next level

- Leading with presence, e.g. giving others a reason to believe in you

- Leading a new team and persuading others to follow

- Influencing across functions and building coalitions of peers

- Turning conflicts into win-win opportunities

- Communicating as a leader: speaking with conviction; listening for understanding

- Leading with deliberation and decisiveness

- Bringing others together for common cause

- Leading up, down and across the organization

- Delegating responsibility and authority

- Coaching employees to improve and to excel

John offers coaching in-person and on the phone as well as via video teleconference (Skype).

John focuses on helping managers become more effective leaders by teaching principles of influence, coalition-building and leading up. His engagements utilize a three-step model of assessment, action‑planning, and evaluation.

John is well-versed in the use of assessment tools, includingin-depth interviews, online and verbal 360s, CPI-260/434, Denison, FIRO-B, Hogan, MRG/LEA, and Myers-Briggs Step II.

John Baldoni specializes in helping his clients achieve and demonstrate leadership presence, which he defines as “earned authority.” Those with leadership presence demonstrate a strong capacity to project confidence, communicate with conviction, instill trust, and most importantly, lead by example.

Leadership presence is the outward manifestation of a leader’s behavior; it combines a leader’s earned authority with a follower’s reason to believe. Leadership presence is vital to an individual’s ability to influence and lead peers and bosses. [John is the author and developer of his own assessment on leadership presence, also available as a 360.]

John bases his coaching practice on performance improvement. He works with the coachee to help him/her achieve the next level of growth and effectiveness. John’s approach involves three key principles:

Assess Where You Stand

  • Conduct a leadership assessment
  • Identify strengths upon which to build
  • Focus on opportunities for improvement

Develop a Plan of Action

  • Focus on improvement one step at a time
  • Align coaching goals with organizational intentions
  • Utilize communications to drive leadership process

Provide Frequent Feedback

  • Adopt the leader mindset
  • Follow up on successes
  • Assess for improvement

Coaching helps leaders achieve intended results by understanding themselves more fully so they can meet the needs of their organization more capably.

Leaders Coaching Leaders

John also teaches managers to coach others. Management today involves coaching people as a means of develop their skills to achieve individual and organizational goals. Specifically, John utilizes the Action Coaching Model that shows managers how to:

  • Plan for a coaching session
  • Uncover the motivational tick factor
  • Converse as you coach
  • Gain agreement
  • Follow up

The Action Coaching model builds on employee initiative and instills organizational discipline in order to achieve inspired results.