• What’s preventing you from reaching your full potential as a leader?
• How will you navigate the next critical inflection? (Taking on a bigger role, joining a new organization, leading large-scale change.)
• What could you do differently to take your business to the next level?
• How can you be more effective driving results today and developing yourself for future success?
• What kind of leader do you want to be?

To find the answers to the toughest questions, sometimes it helps to have someone question your answers.

Executive coaching is about listening intently, asking probing questions, providing perspective, and helping clients find breakthrough insights that enable them to take their performance to the next level.

Executive coaching helps develop skills and adapt behaviors to be a more effective leader and manager. The most effective coaching addresses specific business and organizational goals. When done well, coaching improves performance, develops leadership capability, enhances self-awareness, and offers a critical sounding board.

John Hillen or the team of seasoned coaches from Nevins Consulting works successfully with senior executives and high-potential managers across a wide range of industries around the world.

In addition to providing executive coaching services, we can work with organizations both large and small to help create effective coaching strategies and programs to support their talent development objectives.

• Do you have the right people in critical leadership positions?
• Can your key executives lead through times of change, such as rapid growth, restructuring, or acquisition?
• Do you have a clear plan for talent management and succession?
• Do your leaders understand clearly how to take their game to the next level?
• Are your best people motivated to stay?

Executive assessment is most commonly used for selection: to ensure that the right executives are chosen for critical leadership roles, whether as internal promotions or external hires.

However, in the best organizations, executive assessment also plays an important role in development: executive coaching, leadership and talent development, succession planning, reorganization, and post-merger/acquisition integration.

Our assessment processes leverage behavioral interviews, stakeholder feedback, and well-validated psychometric testing to enhance leadership and organization development initiatives and support talent acquisition.

• Does your team have a clear, shared understanding of its strategy and critical priorities?
• Are your team members comfortable with constructive conflict?
• Does your team as a whole come to the right decisions?
• Is your team spending time and energy on the right things?
• Why don't your team off-sites lead to meaningful improvement?

Teams are the fundamental building blocks of every organization, and yet most leaders don’t invest enough time in developing their teams to achieve their full potential.

Effective team alignment goes beyond mere “team-building” and addresses real business goals by improving how members think and work together.

We help CEOs and senior executives align their teams around shared strategic agendas that address critical leadership and execution issues. We focus on difficult trade-offs (individual objectives vs. collective goals; short-term results vs. long-term performance) and foster productive conversations about the most important things. As a result, teams are better able to understand, support, and execute a focused plan: here’s where we’re going; here’s how we’re going to get there; and here’s why it matters.

• Are you investing in creating tomorrow’s leaders today?
• Is the development of your leaders connected to the execution of your organization's enterprise strategy?
• Are your executives prepared to address emerging business and organizational challenges?
• Are your best leaders truly engaged in your development efforts on their behalf?
• Do your people feel able to experiment courageously in expanding their leadership skills and behaviors?

John and the team at experienced leadership development team at Nevins Consulting can collaborate closely with the senior executive teams of our clients to build and deliver highly customized leadership development programs that engage and develop their people and advance organization and business objectives.

In creating leadership programs, our approach:

• Is designed around our client’s strategy, goals, and leadership competencies, so leadership development connects to the real business.
• Puts participants at the center by giving them responsibility for shaping the goals and actions that will serve as the focus of their learning.
• Uses a multifaceted approach that embraces all aspects of the individual’s experience: leadership transcends the bounds of the workplace.
• Includes applied learning components that link to real work projects or business challenges.
• Facilitates exploration and exchange in a way that ensures practical learning.

Nevins Consulting has designed and delivered premiere leadership programs for a wide range of world-class companies around the globe.

• Is your organization structured to drive results?
• Do your people understand your strategy, and are they able to execute it?
• Are your teams struggling to make a matrix structure work?
• Is inter- or intra-team conflict interfering with successful execution?
• Does your organization have the agility to face whatever’s coming next?

John Hillen and the team at Nevins Consulting works with leaders to develop pragmatic solutions for improving organization effectiveness, increasing engagement, and fostering more effective collaboration. We don’t offer a suite of off-the-shelf “products”—rather, we collaborate with select clients to solve difficult organizational problems and improve execution and results.

Recent organization development engagements for Nevins Consulting include:

• Organization assessment
• Conflict intervention
• Strategic planning and goal setting
• Organization redesign
• Offsite design and facilitation
• Vision, mission, and strategy refinement
• Program evaluation and curriculum development *