(Converted from ThinkLab 08 session 626 – audioLab lecture simultaneously broadcast from the Central NY Chapter meeting)

Friday, June 13, 2008                           1:15 PM – 2:45 PM, ET               

Top performers in every discipline share a set of common characteristics.  One of the most critical is the employment of coaches.  The coach's role is to provide the guidance, counsel, correction, and encouragement needed to achieve the performance results wanted by the individual and expected by others.  We each recognize that there are known and unknown areas of our performance that can be improved.  By ignoring them, we experience underperformance, frustration, and a sense of unfulfilled potential and discouragement.  If our goal is to perform at the highest level and deliver results that exceed industry standards, it is strongly recommended that we bring a coach into our lives to help achieve our goals.  Whether you are a savvy professional with years of experience or a relative newcomer, coaching helps reduce the time and distance between who you are today and who you can be tomorrow.  In this session, the speaker will discuss effective coaching environment, strategies, techniques, and processes to achieve high performance.  In groups, participants will formulate coaching objectives, plans and outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

• State why and how coaching consistently encourages top performance.

• Identify key strategies to help produce the results you want both as a coach and a coachee.

• Formulate coaching objectives, plans, and outcomes.

Member:  $290                 Non-Member:  $400

Eric Russell, Professional Coach, Owner, Lifework Coaching Group

Eric Russell is a coach, consultant, public speaker and principal of Lifework Coaching Group. His practice focuses on leadership coaching, career advising and motivational teaching. He provides technical, sales and developmental coaching for organizations, individuals and teams.

Mr. Russell has over 25 years of management and leadership experience in a variety of organizations including large national financial institutions and local nonprofit community groups. 

He has addressed audiences for a variety of organizations including: the Clinical Laboratory Managers Association, Community College of Vermont, International Credit Association and the Northern New England Chapter of the American Institute of Banking, The Vermont Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mr. Russell received an A.B. in Organizational Behavior and Management from Brown University in Providence Rhode Island.

Advanced

1.5 Credit Hours

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