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Erika Trimble - The Clear Connections Coach
Clear Connections coaching delivers three core benefits - Clarity - Capabilities - Confidence








As a growth oriented business leader, life can be complex.

You have proven skills and talents with incredible opportunities in front of you. Expectations are high. As a result, you probably have a lot going on in your head.

With all you have to consider it's often difficult to identify, let alone remain focused on what is most important to you. It is even more difficult to move forward. Once you lose a sense of real progress, your confidence and enjoyment in your role quickly fades.

Top 10 career stage situations when coaching creates enormous value ...

  1. You've just completed a development program and have a heightened awareness of skills you need to develop or skills you may rely on too much

  2. You're faced with a significant increase in the scope of your responsibility

  3. You've taken on an unfamiliar assignment, such as leading a business turnaround, a start-up venture, a workforce reduction, or a rapid-growth situation

  4. You're a new executive who needs to develop better team-building skills

  5. You're a traditional manager who wants to move to a less dominant and directive leadership style

  6. You're a CEO who needs to develop, articulate, and sell a new vision for your organization

  7. You're a task-oriented senior manager who wants to broaden your experience and capacity to take on an executive position

  8. You need a confidential sounding board to help you work out turning strategies into action

  9. You feel like your family gets the leftovers in your life and you want that to change

  10. You're a leader who needs to become adept at articulating ideas, influencing others, and understanding organizational politics.

Clear Connections™ coaching delivers three core benefits:

1. Clarity



Defining what success means to you personally and professionally and knowing how to achieve it are fundamental to success as a leader. Clarity enables you to distinguish between making good decisions and making the best decision in any situation. It also helps you identify where your mind set or habits are getting in the way of you working effectively.

Three key benefits of improved clarity are:

  1. The ability to be driven by values rather than reactionary thinking.
  2. The ability to make effective decisions faster, even under great pressure.
  3. The motivation of knowing you are moving in the right direction.


2. Capabilities



The higher you are in an organization's hierarchy, the value of your technical skills declines, while the value of your interpersonal skills increases. Clear Connections™ coaching provides "just-in-time" development of the capabilities you needed to reach the next level of success.

Some of the most common capabilities include:

  • Planning and thinking strategically
  • Fostering teamwork
  • Moving from managing to leading your organization
  • Building effective working relationships
  • Navigating career transitions


3. Confidence



The business world has plenty in it that promotes fear and the need to control. Coaching provides a safe space in which to recognize and look beyond your fears.

True confidence is the ability to transform fear into focused and relaxed thinking, communication, and action. It turns dangers into opportunities, obstacles into innovations, weaknesses into advantages, and set-backs into breakthroughs.

Confidence is neither a factor of personality nor emotion.

It is the key that enables you to utilize your capabilities. When you learn to create confidence yourself, you can have it in endless supply.

Many incredibly gifted individuals could be doing so much more with their natural ability, but something always seems to hold them back. The missing factor is nearly always confidence. It's the ability to appreciate the resources they have, see their past progress, and create a compelling vision of the way forward.

This is the value of coaching.

But does all this pay off financially for your company?

One of the biggest reasons business leaders are increasingly utilizing the services of a coach is the exceptional return on investment (ROI).

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