Coaching

With Lodestar Executive Leadership Coaching, you’ll receive a private, personalized program that is tailored to your goals. In these 1-on-1 sessions, expect to find non-judgemental counsel, active listening, and individualized attention that will not only challenge you to stretch and grow, but will support you with strategies and guidance to pursue what you want for yourself.

To support the next generation of leaders, LodeStar offers a 1-for-1 Rising Star Program. For every Executive participating in Executive Leadership Coaching, LodeStar will also coach a Rising Star Employee (an employee 35 years old or younger) to develop into an upcoming leader. There is no fee for this coaching. Coaching sessions for the Executive and Rising Star are scheduled at different times and do not coincide with one another, unless otherwise indicated. Inquire to learn about parameters.

Our Hybrid Coaching combines the benefits of one-on-one Leadership Coaching with Mastermind Group Coaching. In this program, your executives and company leaders grow and develop on an individual and collective basis.

Group Coaching is ideal for organizations that have teams of Middle Managers who seek to increase their influence and effectiveness across a growing company. With ideal group sizes of 3 to 5 employees, Group Coaching is structured in a guided peer-to-peer learning setting where managers learn to:

• Balance cognitive and social skills
  
• Examine strategies for change
  
• Strategize how to handle difficult situations, people or relationships
  
• Improve competency in communication, leadership, management and delegation

Lodestar’s Mentoring Circles Program serves employees working together in peer groups with mentors. This is a time-limited mentoring forum that explores alternative ways to strengthen personal effectiveness through peer learning and mentoring led by trained mentor-leaders. The program is customized to each business, typically involving six topic-focused sessions for groups of 6-8 employees. Prepared agendas topics focus on increasing personal effectiveness at work, in careers, in relationships, and in sustaining a healthy quality of life. The sessions involve facilitated dialogue, exploration, and learning.

Even the best of organizations can experience miscommunication, dysfunction or stagnation within teams. This is why Lodestar has a coaching program that unifies team members to pursue a common purpose, improve overall efficacy, and encourage communication to reinforce company values. With Lodestar, you can expect Whit and his colleagues to assess and diagnose the team’s situation, outline a roadmap for improvement or development, and then implement a customized plan. In the end, you will have team members operating with shared direction, with clearer roles and accountabilities, with great cohesiveness and coordination, and with more purpose-drive activity - the teams are contributing more to the objectives and greater good of the company.

Growing pains happen to everyone - and to every business. Just as a company expands, new employees are hired or department responsibilities evolve, it’s normal for companies to face challenges between partners, projects, groups, teams, departments. Lodestar assesses and diagnoses current strengths and weaknesses of the current organizational structure, communication or service delivery. Thereafter, we prepare and guide a customized transition plan to elevate functioning and coordination between groups. This includes establishing joint and mutually dependent objectives and accountability standards to ensure the agreed-upon strategies are effective and relevant based on the cross-group or company needs.

Organizations that are experiencing a droop in overall employee morale, climate, engagement, and/or productivity would fare well to hire our Lodestar Leadership coaching series. In this setting, teams are constructed in large and small working groups to identify challenges and uncover group mental roadblocks. Whit will help leadership teams to create objectives, develop an inspiring vision and value set, as well as guide teams along the journey to an evolved and empowered company culture.