EXECUTIVE COACHING

Utilizing the Birkman Method®, my coaching practice is designed to care for clients seeking to live out of their strengths. Each of us is created with unique needs, motivations, interests, and strengths. In caring for clients I provide support, ask tough questions, talk things out, and assist in freeing clients to follow the advice of leadership author Gareth Jones to “be yourself – more – with skill”.

Whether your goal is to gain self-awareness through an individual Birkman Assessment or to engage in a full service, call anytime coaching relationship my practice is designed to provide the type of coaching you desire.

Executive Coaching, Training and Development

As a leader, you are responsible for all aspects of your organization as well as the development of the people you lead. The significance of your decisions cannot be understated. As an executive coach, Mike provides a listening ear, partnership, and a leadership and emotional intelligence perspective to serve you and the success of your team.

Mike works with you to:

• Develop a profound sense of self-awareness and self-management

• Identify and outline personal values and goals

• Align personal and organizational objectives

• Gain social awareness and leadership capacity for your team

• Resolve personal and team conflict

• Live out of who your are and offer your best to those around you

Team Engagement and Coaching

As a leader, you know your greatest assets are your people. The goal of your leadership is to unlock the potential of your team, setting them up for mutual success. Finding the right people and placing them in the right positions is the first step. Next, you must create an inquiry-based culture that allows them to engage everything in them for the success of the team.

Mike works with you and your team to:

• Develop a culture of social awareness and mutual respect

• Understand individual strengths and team composition

• Clarify a hiring strategy to improve your team

• Identify stress behaviours and how they affect the team

• Create effective communication and collaboration strategies

• Understand the needs of your individual team members

Relationship R&D (Leader and Spouse)

As a leader, you know the importance of family life and a harmonious marriage. Each day you strategically navigate the culture of the marketplace but often times it doesn’t seem as easy at home. Understanding the strengths, needs, motivations, and stresses of your most important relationship is of utmost importance.

Mike works with you and your spouse to:

• Identify and support the strengths that each of you bring to your relationship

• Understand each other’s motivations and needs

• Identify and break unhealthy patterns of engagement

• Create a great culture for communication

If you want to discuss executive coaching or a Birkman Assessment, email mike@brackishconsulting.com or call 604.808.9694

GROUP COACHING

Brackish Coaching Groups care for growing leaders looking for partnership, peers, and a unique perspective to help them put their leadership into a framework and live it out.

The 3 P’s of Brackish Group Coaching

Partnership – Leadership author Simon Sinek states, “if you want to go on a leadership journey, you have to go with someone”. As a leadership coach, I provide a listening ear, constructive questions, timely advice, and partnership in the trenches of leadership. Leadership requires the confidence and courage to make the tough calls; a coach is a great sounding board and advisor in these moments.

Perspective – My coaching perspective is one that believes each of us is created uniquely with specific skills, interests, motivations and needs that shape our worldview and determine our actions. I bring a leadership perspective that frees leaders and their teams to live this out. Leadership is about stewardship and empowerment and my coaching perspective will support and challenge leaders to truly understand themselves and those they lead. Only then can one truly unlock the personal and organizational potential for success.

Peers – Leadership is lonely. Brackish Coaching Groups provide leaders with a monthly opportunity to dig into relationship with peers who understand what a leader’s life is like in the day-to-day. Each month leaders will have an opportunity to share their business and life questions with peers who can offer insight, strategy and support. As you journey through the process of self discovery, leadership learning and business growth, the friendships developed in a coaching group will prove invaluable.

CONSULTING

Whether in for-profit business or the social sector, having the right people in the right seats on the bus is the key to optimal performance. Utilizing the Birkman Method®, I care for clients by assisting in the development of a high performance roster of A-players.

Whether you are a start-up or have been operating for a long time, my 15 years of leadership experience and a focus on organizational behaviour will assist in asking the right questions, clarifying strategy, and aligning people and systems to boost energy and performance.

People are any organizations greatest asset. The investment you make in aligning the interests, motivations, and needs of your people will always pay dividends.

Team Engagement and Coaching

Mike works with you and your team to:

• Develop a culture of social awareness and mutual respect

• Understand individual strengths and team composition

• Clarify a hiring strategy to improve your team

• Identify stress behaviours and how they affect the team

• Create effective communication and collaboration strategies

• Understand the needs of your individual team members

Hiring and On-boarding

As a leader, you know the importance getting the right people in the right seats. Knowing what you are looking for and how to identify it in potential team members is crucial to team chemistry and organizational culture. Understanding the strengths, motivations, needs and stress behaviours of your people and potential hires is key to ensuring you get the right people and then set them up for success.

Mike works with you and your team to:

• Identify how team members can excel in current roles

• Evaluate the suitability of team members for certain roles

• Evaluate the suitability of potential hires for roles on your team

• Assist managers in understanding what team members need to be at their best

• Identifying potential areas of conflict between managers and potential hires

• Developing strategies to allow your people to thrive

To discuss how I can assist in developing your team and caring for your people to optimize performance, email: mike@brackishconsulting.com or call 604.808.9694