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Climb with confidence.
Land your worthy job.
Rip your entry.
Propel to new heights.
Forward Pike Coaching & Consulting helps leaders move to the next level, hit the ground running and continue their development journey. Let me support your leadership advancement as you discover the power of professional executive coaching that leverages world-class research and high-quality psychometric assessment.
Services
One-on-One Coaching
It’s critical that you have the skills, qualities, values, attributes and demonstrated behaviours to effectively lead your organization now and into the future. One-on-one coaching provides individualized, highly customized support in a trusting, confidential environment. Coaching is partnering with you in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize your personal and professional potential. Using a holistic approach–that works with you as a whole, not just your problems–we’ll explore your personal business-related aspirations, more productive team interactions and enhanced interpersonal behaviours, allowing you to lead with more ease and grace.
“Darcie brings everything she has to coaching. Her passion, knowledge and ability to meet me where I was at, was truly inspirational. I don’t think she fully realizes the positive impact that she’s had on my development. I left every meeting feeling better and more empowered as a person and as a leader.” ~ M.Z.
Psychometric Assessment
Understanding your strengths, challenges and behaviour patterns is the most effective way to tailor your development plan. Using valid, reliable psychometric instruments we will measure factors like behaviour, motivational drivers, personality, natural talent and emotional intelligence. Most people are unaware of how different they are from others when it comes to what they place emphasis on, how much satisfaction they gain from various areas of work and life and how their traits compare to the average professional population. This relevant and insightful feedback will help create a constructive plan with results presented thoughtfully, thoroughly and with the utmost empathy.
“My 360 briefing was excellent. This was probably the most valuable coaching I’ve had with respect to performance and leadership and attests to Darcie’s understanding of the subject matter, method of delivery and ability to connect at a personal level.” ~ T.I.
Peer Group Coaching
Peer coaching is the solution to leverage collective knowledge of a small group of your colleagues, none of whom have oversight or authority over the others. Within these dynamics, you share insights, feedback, challenges, practices and provide accountability. As a group coach, I provide structure and focus, valuable learning content and trust to ensure involvement in a supportive environment. As a result, connection is fostered and tacit knowledge is shared in a space that encourages communication and collaboration, developing leadership skills. Group assessment can open up conversation on topics you need to explore. Proven effective and enjoyable, peer group coaching is also a great way to strengthen your network!
“The sessions were packed with a lot of valuable information in combination with interactive learning and coaching with other participants. Darcie always delivers in an organized, engaging, empathetic and successful way. She is a great coach and facilitator who achieves the required outcome.” ~ L.O.
Team Coaching
Team coaching develops and boosts communication, trust, influence, resilience, change adaptability and problem solving. Misalignment within teams is common and left unresolved, it can cause them to derail. Even moderate levels of conflict can negatively impact productivity and engagement. In our partnership, I’ll foster expression of perceptions, concerns, beliefs, hopes and suggestions using a co-creative and reflective process that focuses on team dynamics and relationships. I’ll inspire participation and contribution so the team will unite on norms, objectives and commitments. The result is room for diverse perspectives and mutual understanding so you can reach your common purpose and accelerate performance.
“Darcie coached our team to help us learn each others’ strengths and internal drivers so we could improve communication and allocate work more effectively by understanding what others love, what they are drawn to and what their preferences are. We’re more aligned because we know each other so much better.” ~ M.S.
Leadership Program Advisory
To guarantee that your program is robust, multi-faceted and addresses formal, social and experiential learning modalities, you need a systemic approach to program design. Every leadership and career development program requires an intentional strategy tailored to the meet your desired objectives, performance improvement measures and organizational outcomes. The best learning program strategies don’t make evaluation an afterthought. To realize maximum impact from your program, start with the end in mind. If you are an HR leader, organizational development specialist or instructional designer, I will ensure your programs align individual capability building with skill transfer to the workplace and organizational results, so you get optimum return on investment.
“Darcie advised our HR team on the design of a new comprehensive leadership development program for our managers. It ended up being stronger and more interesting than anything we had in the past. Her extensive knowledge of various assessment instruments and how to bring those in, took it to the next level.” ~ F.B.
Human beings are complex creatures.
How many of these WANTS do you have?
I want to stand out
- I can’t relay my brand
- I don’t know how to express my worth
- I need more executive presence
- I can’t name my values
- I’ve never thought about my purpose
- I don’t have an elevator pitch
I want to transition with ease
- I don’t know what next job is best for me
- I need to make better career choices
- I want better work relationships
- I wish I knew what corporate culture I fit in
- I’m not sure how to get noticed
I want to move into my new role with confidence
- I want to make a good impression
- I wonder if I’m ready for this
- I don’t know what to do first
- I feel like a fraud
- I don’t know how to measure my performance
I want clarity and vision to lead into the future
- I spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking
- I don’t know how to be more strategic
- I need to make better decisions
- I’m not comfortable taking risks
- I don’t know how to lead this change
I want to slow down and stay vibrant
- I am always tired
- I am irritable
- Work doesn’t inspire me anymore
- I don’t sleep well
- My productivity has declined
I want to find out about myself and my leadership
- I don’t know what to improve
- I’m not sure what my staff needs to stay engaged
- I’m not sure what internally motivates me
- I don’t know why I behave like I do sometimes
- I feel different than everybody else
Assessments
Leadership Behaviour
Leaders who want to propel to new heights need relevant, insightful feedback from a variety of observers. Without knowing how you’re perceived, you could be shooting in the dark, guessing what to emphasize to make you a better leader. Let’s identify the specific leadership practices you need to achieve your strategic goals. Whether you are an individual who wants to identify your greatest opportunities to boost success, or an organization wanting to understand leadership behaviours currently in practice along with the gaps with your desired state, I can show you what you need to nail it.
Motivational Drivers
Emotional satisfaction directs the way we interact with the world, supplies happiness and unleashes performance. These hidden drivers are also behind biases and blind spots that can either block or facilitate progress. If you are an individual who wants to reignite your energy, confirm what you need out of relationships, identify the job characteristics that will light you up or find a culture where you’ll thrive, this is for you. If you’re in charge of a team that wants to strengthen dynamics or accelerate collaboration, a team assessment will boost your momentum.
Strengths
We’ve learned from neuroscience that a strengths-based approach is much more impactful than fixating on weaknesses. We spend our lives trying to improve our lowest grades, close performance gaps, fulfill our job descriptions and meet expectations. In other words, we’ve been conditioned to work on our weaknesses; get trained, be better, get fixed. Yet, if we want to positively affect our satisfaction, wellbeing, self-efficacy, and quality of life, we’ll be better off leveraging our strengths. Organizations should too if they want to improve engagement, mental health and reach peak performance. Let’s go beneath the surface to uncover your talents!
Personality
If you feel different from others, it’s because you are! Most people have no idea how unique they really are. Personality is hard-wired from early adulthood, and it’s not meant to be changed or “developed”. Why would you do that? However, personality gives us valuable information about how you prefer to think, engage with others and apply yourself. Your personality traits are your “default” when you are operating in your comfort-zone. However, they do not accurately predict behaviour. In between natural tendencies and behaviour comes choice. Take a deep dive with me so you can make those choices intentional.
Emotional Intelligence
Intellectual horsepower and technical capability will get you so far, but emotional intelligence (EI) is actually 2x as predictive of success. Yes! Having this set of emotional and social skills is more important for high-performing leaders. The good news is that EI is a skill that can be developed and matured over time. The challenge is that it’s a complex skill. Assessment can reveal how well you perceive and express yourself, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way. Let’s take a thoughtful approach together.
And more…
If you have an assessment report that measures one of these factors, I’ll help you interpret it and bring it into our coaching. If you were not completely satisfied with a previous assessment, I’ll find you one that offers reliability, validity and internal consistency. If your prior assessment boxed you into a category, colour or string of letters that doesn’t feel completely accurate, that’s because it was summarizing your commonality with others. Finding out what group you’re in is somewhat useful. But let’s get you some data that is customized, individualized and honours your uniqueness. That’s what Forward Pike specializes in.
Forward Pike Values Freedom and Fairness
Everyone deserves to thrive. We all have a right to climb with confidence, propel to new heights and find fulfillment in our work. All of us need our voices heard, our gifts appreciated, and our uniqueness honoured. Workplaces that celebrate diversity, equality and inclusivity enjoy higher morale, increased productivity, better problem-solving and greater innovation.
Forward Pike upholds the responsibility of all ICF professionals to avoid discrimination by maintaining fairness and equality in all activities and operations. We unconditionally respect all clients regardless of age, race, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin or disability.
We are committed to achieving equity and enhancing diversity, allowing clients to discover and explore biases, identities and fears, creating safe workplaces by showing up more authentically. Please let us know if you have any accommodation needs or require communication supports or alternate formats.
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