Executive Coaching

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

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.

Coaching Others

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.

Many of the lessons John teaches are drawn from his fifth book, Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders (McGraw-Hill 2005), which explores how leaders create opportunities for people to succeed for themselves and their organizations.