How Can Sam Help Me?

A great way to answer this question is for the two of us to sit down to explore your leadership situation. We’ll study the challenges you face, the management team around you, and the culture and conditions within your organization. Based on these and other variables unique to your setting, we’ll decide whether I can help you. If so, we’ll place me in one or more of these roles.

1. Executive Advisor and Coach.  High positions in organizations can be lonely places. I may be just the right person to help you discover the 20% of your day that creates 80% of your leadership impact so you can delegate or eliminate some of the 80% that nets only 20% of your results. You may need me as a sounding board for your ideas. You might ask me to challenge your decisions. You may want me to help you get feedback from others on your effectiveness. You may treasure someone who’ll be honest with you with no agenda other than your success.
2. Mentor, Coach, Accountability Ally, Listener, Friend.  You and your high-level executives may benefit from leadership counsel, whether embarking on a new responsibility or looking to refresh oneself after several years in a role. You and they may need someone at your side who can serve as a coach, cheerleader, referee, or trainer.
3. Team Builder.  Teams at the top very often require greater unity and commonality of purpose. Occasionally there are broken relationships in need of healing that are duplicated down through the ranks. You may benefit from a tool that will increase teamwork, break down silos, resolve interpersonal conflict, and improve internal customer service.
4. Leadership Developer and Trainer.  For several years I taught “Meeting the Challenges of Corporate Leadership” to second year MBA’s in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Coming out of that experience an Executive Leadership Academy can be custom-developed for your emerging, high-potential, succession leadership candidates. Robust workshops are also available in sales, customer service, presentation skills, conflict resolution, communication, decision making, running effective meetings, dealing with difficult people, and relationship building.
5. Motivational Speaker.  You may want me to kick off or conclude a management conference for you with a presentation on a wide range of topics featuring an appropriate blend of humor, inspiration, and substance.
6. Presentation Skills Coach.  Do executives need to improve their ability to stand up and deliver at conferences, board meetings, sales presentations, or instructional settings?
7. Performance Management Advisor.  Many of my clients have received help creating performance review processes that actually improve performance while remaining true to their organizational culture. They also value ideas for how to ramp up accountability in the work force.
8. Process Consultant.  You and I can work together to mount a strategic planning vehicle that is sensitive to where you are and takes you where you need to go. Or we may choose to apply the powerful “retrospective thinking” exercise to an upcoming crisis, opportunity, or major change that you face. Other purposes and process consultation tools abound. The solutions are always fully tailored to, and sometimes even invented for, your requirements.

A good way for us to take the next step is through a personal conversation initiated by your call to my cell phone at (412) 487-2379 or your email to sam@asksamdeep.com.