Manage Knowledge

In the Information Age, knowledge is your most critical competitive advantage, in that it gives rise to all the others. Data can be stored in your computers, but knowledge resides in the heads of the people. Productively applying this knowledge to your company's profitable growth requires retaining experienced and talented employees and creating a culture that encourages and rewards them for sharing their knowledge, so that your company is truly greater than the sum of its people. Executive Advisors works with you to:

• Identify and fill gaps in the organization's collective knowledge.
  
  
• Retain key individuals rather than develop them for their next employer (too often one of your competitors).
  
  
• Create a culture which encourages employees to enthusiastically enhance their knowledge, share it, and apply it to realizing the organization's vision and goals.
  
  

Coaching for Success in a Changing Environment

Companies are continuously undergoing change. The leadership may change the corporate vision or strategy by design, or the company may be affected by changes in the marketplace or internally. To succeed in this unstable environment requires innovative leadership, a motivated workforce, an adaptable infrastructure, and a realistic perspective of the external environment.

To foster success, executive leaders must:

• Be willing to be different from other executives, or from their own previous ways of governing, thereby showing innovative leadership.
  
  
• Demonstrate high priority on new ideas by listening and giving feedback, validating an adaptable infrastructure.
  
  
• Show flexibility and openness by putting some of these ideas into action, and thereby motivating the workforce.
  
  
• Embrace change as an essential part of how the company does business.
  
  
• Evaluate the impact of each modification and incorporate the assessment findings to make improvements.
  

Ongoing innovation likewise depends on the continuous growth of emerging leaders who welcome rather than fear change. Through individualized executive coaching, our consultants promote comfort with change. By cultivating the self-organizing power of teams, we facilitate the natural synergies among the members of the group. We work with selected individuals to develop or enhance existing capabilities or to overcome difficulties. Together with the appropriate executives, our consultants design and implement individualized coaching processes and procedures. The first phase of coaching is to establish the parameters of this process:

• Assess the individual's capabilities, resistances, and desires.
  
  
• Define the purpose of the coaching intervention.
  
  
• Determine who receives the feedback, how the coaching will be monitored, and the manner in which the results will be incorporated into the individual's development and/or succession plan.

Coaching provides a systematic method of creating a personal focus by defining the individual's professional goals as well as a path toward achieving them. It is a process through which managers can learn their strengths and weaknesses in leading and managing, assess their attitudes toward change, understand how they are being perceived, learn the effect of their leadership styles on others, and develop new competencies. Aligning the individual's development goals with the corporate goals creates synergy toward achieving the corporate goals.

Our role is to transfer the knowledge and skills developed for these systems to the company's internal staff so that we leave your company more robust and able to adapt to change.

Coaching also promotes effective employees within the organization to take the initiative and become more self-directed and responsible. Coaching helps promote change, integrates it into the organization, and shortens the adjustment period. In this period of constant change, investment in coaching produces substantial returns to both the individual managers and the organization as a whole.

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