WHAT WE DO
The Third Zone delivers leadership excellence through a unique brand of dynamic consulting.
HOW WE DO THIS: We employ BOLD coaching techniques to extract and leverage the expertise of the organization's leadership and create new, ambitious and achievable strategies for the future. To implement and sustain the effort we conduct both team and individual strategic coaching to achieve growth and learning for guaranteed excellence. We work with leaders at all levels within the organization to build the capacity and responsibility for results within each individual.
WHO PROVIDES THIS: Our team of Savvy, Dynamic, Experienced Business and Leadership Professionals all of whom are Certified Professional Coaches.
WHERE THIS WORKS: BOLD can be applied on a Cross-Functional and Multi-Level basis and to several focus areas including:
- The Leadership Transformation Program - moving from success to excellence with B.O.L.D. - Beyond Ordinary Leadership Development
- Performance Improvement of Teams or Individuals
- Leveraging Powerful and Creative Relationships
- Elevating Management to Leadership Development
- Conflict Resolution and Communication Resolution
COACHING SOLUTIONS:Beyond Ordinary Leadership Development is a comprehensive multi-faceted, cutting-edge leadership development program. It is applied within an organization and combines work with teams/groups and individuals. Where there is a team involved, each member ultimately makes commitments to it. This is a great starting point however, the achievement and sustainability of the commitment rests in each individual feeling the responsibility for their part of the equation and working to make it real. The challenges to each individual will vary and the individual coaching allows for each to address and move beyond obstacles that hinder them being their most effective selves as leaders.
Where to Begin in an Organization
The immediate needs within an organization vary and thus the logical entry pathway that The Third Zone takes varies as well. We have identified four situations that are most common to be found in an organization and define the way in which we approach the development and enhancement of leadership effectiveness. They are:
1. New Leadership Team Enhancement
Engagement/Session Description
A high impact one-day senior leadership session provides the platform for executive teams to clarify roles, expectations, and deepen self and team awareness.
A personal leadership assessment serves as a catalyst in building collaboration and positive relationships among team members.
A series of six follow-up coaching sessions are provided for each individual over a 2-3 month time period to ensure sustainability of results.
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Who Should Engage
Businesses that have recently or are currently experiencing:
- Being a new business unit or organization
- Sudden growth requiring a new level of leadership team engagement
- A merger or acquisition
- Any other factors that have created the need for a new leadership team
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Assessment Tool Description
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| Team/Roles Learning |
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- Team diagnostics
- Team optimization
- Team Graphs/Reports
- Roles’ diagnostics & optimization
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- Joint work energies
- Joint learning style
- Client/Colleague joint process
- Peer/Peer joint process
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- Work Preferences
- Learning Preferences
- Energy Map
- Time Map
- Performance Cycle
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Deliverables and Timeline
- A one-day leadership team seminar
- Role clarification
- Establishment of high leadership standards expectations, and strategies to achieve them
- Increased positivity between leaders
- Improved leadership awareness and skill to execute the future business vision
- Up to twelve 5 Dynamic Assessments
- Six 45-minute individual coaching sessions for up to twelve leaders
- 2-3 month completion to be determined by frequency of coaching sessions
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2. Personalized Leadership Development
Engagement/Session Description
A high impact one-day leadership session provides the launch for leaders to begin or continue the journey of leadership development.
A personal leadership assessment team is identified and provides 360 feedback on specific development areas for each individual leader.
Foundation leadership concepts are introduced as a foundation for driving leadership effectiveness.
A series of six follow-up coaching sessions are provided for each individual over a 2-3 month time period to ensure sustainability of results.
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Who Should EngageBusinesses that:
- recognize the need to develop future leaders in order to continue on our current strong performance track
- need to further the individual capabilities of our current and future leaders in preparation for greater leadership roles
- have individuals in leadership roles as a result of prior outstanding performance as individual contributors with little or no experience in leadership
- have a specific focus to enhance leadership skills and/or performance of leaders in preparation for future opportunities within the organization.
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Assessment Tool Description
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- Personal assessment team
- Targeted Leadership Skills
- Real time perception
- Metrics for monitoring progress
- Personalized reports
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Deliverables and Timeline
- A one-day leadership team seminar
- Feedback clarification
- Design coaching alliance
- Establish leadership development community
- Create ownership & accountability for leadership performance improvements
- Up to twelve Focus Team 360 Assessments to assessment teams of up to six
- Six 45-minute individual coaching sessions for up to twelve leaders
- 2-3 month completion to be determined by frequency of coaching sessions
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3. Leadership Team Optimization
Engagement/Session Description
A high impact one-day senior leadership session provides the platform for executive teams to develop a functional understanding of how they are and are not working as a high performing team.
A team assessment serves as a the basis for increasing team productivity and positivity. Team members build partnership strategies and design alliances to optimize the teams effectiveness.
A series of six follow-up coaching sessions are provided for each individual over a 2-3 month time period to ensure sustainability of results.
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Who Should EngageBusinesses with a leadership team that:
- Have been together for some time
- Are looking to function more optimally
- Operate with a ‘siloed’ approach and could benefit from cross functional practices and thinking
- Have interpersonal conflict or tension between members
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Assessment Tool Description
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Productivity
- Alignment
- Goals and Strategies
- Accountability
- Proactive
- Decision Making
- Resources
- Team Leadership
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Positivity
- Trust
- Respect
- Camaraderie
- Constructive Interaction
- Communication
- Values Diversity
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Deliverables and Timeline
- A one-day leadership team seminar
- Strategic design to increase productivity
- Strategic design to increase positivity
- Shift in leaders focus to drive effectiveness and efficiency cross functionally
- Improved leadership awareness and skill to execute the future business vision as a team
- Team Diagnostic Assessment
- Six 45-minute individual coaching sessions for up to twelve leaders
- 2-3 month completion to be determined by frequency of coaching sessions
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4. Change Leadership
Engagement/Session Description
A one-day senior leadership session provides leaders with tools and skills needed to accelerate change and drive innovation within their businesses.
An individual and team-based assessment of existing practices and mindsets that help and hinder the ability to change and innovate serves as the basis for increasing awareness and skill in change leadership. Team members build influence strategies and design alliances to optimize accelerate organizational change.
A series of six follow-up coaching sessions are provided for each individual over a 2-3 month time period to ensure sustainability of results.
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Who Should EngageBusinesses that:
- Are experiencing or anticipating a need for changes in processes, products, or services
- New initiatives often turn into a ‘flavor of the month’
- The industry is changing at a faster rate than the business
- Have a need for leading innovation and vision for future focus of the organization
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Deliverables and Timeline
- A one-day seminar
- Uncover forces that decrease the organizations ability to change
- Provide leaders with practical tools to accelerate change
- Explore factors that increase innovative thought and practices of leaders
- Change Leadership Inventory and Team Profile
- Six 45-minute individual coaching sessions for up to twelve leaders
- 2-3 month completion to be determined by frequency of coaching sessions
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5.  - enhanced Leadership Effectiveness Assisted Development
When a person advances to a position of senior leadership and the related responsibilities it often means that they have moved up the leadership ladder doing their jobs to the best of their imagination and ability however, without the advantage of any focused training on very basic and effective leadership skills. At high levels within the organization, the reduced effectiveness has a potential large cost associated with it. The Third Zone is often hired to work with such leaders and we find that our coaching time is initially spent on working with the basics.
As a result of our experiences, we have created eLEAD as a solution for entry-level and mid-level leader/managers.
Virtual Coaching Description
Online access to a certified professional business leadership coach. Through combining technology with real time expertise, high value coaching is available to the newer manager/leader at an appropriate expense.
On a specific day of the week, the client logs onto The Third Zone Virtual Coach Website and provides focus information for the coaching. The Virtual Coach responds with coaching questions to deepen the learning and awareness of the client. Links to our leadership coaching library are included for educational purposes. This helps build the foundation of concepts and skills the new leader will be using on a daily basis.
The client responds with new insights. Upon reviewing the client responses, the coach provides a web video with homework for the client to apply between sessions.
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Who Should Engage
- Individuals new to a leadership position
- Entry-level supervisors or managers
- Mid-level managers new to leadership development and coaching
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Process/Tool Description
- Secure website with unique user id and password for every client
- Online reference library for learning basic leadership and coaching concepts
- Access to a Certified Professional Business Leadership Coach
- Use of secured web video for coaching assignments and acknowledgments
- Personalized secure access between coach and client to ensure confidentiality
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Deliverables and Timeline
- Sessions are available in 10 coaching credit packages
- One coaching credit = three online exchanges with a coach occurring in one business day
- Unlimited access to leadership and coaching reference library
- Online feedback survey mid-engagement to ensure quality of coaching
- Coaching sessions must be completed within 12 weeks of first session to ensure consistency, commitment and results
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CONTACT THE THIRD ZONE TODAY FOR MORE ABOUT BOLD COACHING
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