Executive Coaching

Accord System provides Executive Coaching to professionals, managers and individuals who want to enhance their relationship skills in the work environment. These are often key employees with valuable skills.

Executive Leadership Training

The Executive Leadership Training is for managers who are successful task leaders. Participants learn and practice assertive communication, stress management, conflict management, and group facilitation. Trainees learn to stay conscious of their demeanor and to control it in a way that benefits the organization.

SKILL ENHANCEMENT COMPONENT:

  • EMPATHY
  • COMMUNICATION
  • STRESS MANAGEMENT
  • EMOTIONAL REGULATION 

Each skill enhancement module takes approximately 3 to 4 hours to complete.

The keystone of the Executive Leadership training is the use of critical incidents. Participants practice cognitive and behavioral skills they learn in the training on critical incidents they have experienced.  The use of critical incidents makes the training relevant to the trainee.  

What is a critical incident?

A critical incident is incident that the trainee has experienced that can be used to learn from.
Participants practice the discipline of perception.  A dialectic process is facilitated. The cognitive process is internalized which results in confident decision making.
With training, participants personally benefit by:

  • Strengthening Professional Relationships
  • Learning New Communication Skills 
  • Developing Conflict Resolution Skills
  • Developing and Implementing a Stress Management Plan
  • Learning and Practicing Ways to Regulate Emotion.
  • Increasing their Emotional Intelligence
  • Learning New Ways to Motivate Self, Peers and Employees

On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces launched an amphibious assault into France: “The leadership of supreme Allied Cmdr. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was crucial. Ike demonstrated great executive ability in supervising an unprecedented logistical challenge and his remarkable interpersonal skills welded and held together the most diverse military alliance in history. Related to this he was able to establish overall unity of command. This was never achieved even among American military in the Pacific, were Gen. Douglas MacArthur pursued one strategic vision while Navy admirals implemented a different approach” (Arthur I Cyr, Professor at Carthage Collage in Kenosha, Wisconsin)

Gen. Eisenhower never lost awareness of the human sacrifice born by the enlisted men. He constantly emphasized the importance of the combat troops in the field.
Gen. George S. Patton was considered an exceptional military tactician. He was feared and respected by his adversaries. He had a hostile relationship with his English and Russian allies. During heavy fighting in Sicily in 1943 Gen. George S. Patton Junior slapped two US soldiers suffering extreme combat stress and because of intense public outrage caused by his behavior was almost fired. He was perceived as not caring about his men.
Gen. George Patton was a brilliant military tactician however his professional relations were poor.

Former Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable was alleged to have punched his defensive assistant Randy Hansen in the jaw during a meeting at the team’s training camp headquarters in Napa Valley California in 2009. Although he led the Oakland Raiders to their best record in eight years he was fired in 2010.
When San Francisco hired 49ers former head coach Mike Singletary, he said ‘I want winners”

Mike Singletary got into a prolonged verbal altercation on the sidelines with quarterback Troy Smith after a 49er or loss to the St. Louis Rams 25to 17. Media reported that the 49er owners and other team executives met to decide whether Mike Singletary should be fired immediately or after the season was completed. Mike Singletary was released in 2010 and was thanked by the 49ers for his passion and effort that he brought to the 49er organization.
Oakland Raiders Tom Cable and San Francisco's coach Mike Singletary were good task leaders however they were not successful relationship leaders.

In Contrast:
San Francisco Giants broadcasters Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper asked what a manager does to get his team out of a funk after San Francisco Giants Catcher Buster Posey was seriously injured in a collision at home plate 

Giant’s manager Bruce Bochy knows how to motivate his team and keep a group of talented and competitive athletes playing as a cohesive unit. It is why he has successfully managed the 2010 World Series champion San Francisco Giants. Emotional intelligence contributed to Bruce Bochys' successful leadership.

What is emotional intelligence?

Scientist Dr. John D Mayer and Dr. Peter Salovey investigated what forms of intelligence contribute to an individuals success. In order to measure a form of intelligence it must first be defined.
They define emotional intelligence as:  
The ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions (Salovey & Mayer 189).The emotionally intelligent person attends to emotion in the path toward growth. Emotional intelligence involves self-regulation appreciative of the fact that temporarily hurt feelings or emotional restraint is often necessary in the service of a greater objective (Salovey & Mayer 201).

They identified four steps that occur when an emotionally intelligent person processes information. 

The first step is understanding emotion is to accurately perceive the emotion. 

The second step is to use the emotions to prioritize what we pay attention to and how we react and what action we take.

The third step is to understand the meaning of the emotions. The emotion we receive can have a wide range of meaning. Example: Is the receptionist mad because I asked her a question or is she mad because she had an argument with another co-worker.

The fourth step is the ability to regulate emotions effectively.  We must be able to manage our emotion and then to attend to the emotions of others.

The most advanced level of emotional intelligence is the ability to manage the emotions of the group.
The skills participants learn and use during the training strengthen and develop the four stages of emotional intelligence.  When Participants complete the training they are able to use their emotional intelligence to enhance their professional relationships and improve group performance.  
An initial assessment is done to help evaluate an individual’s interpersonal style. 

On-Site Training is Available  

The Executive Leadership Training is 10 one hour weekly Executive Coaching Sessions and an initial assessment.
The Executive Leadership training actualizes a manager and their organizations full potential
Cost: $1800.00