Jane Washburn is an Ayers executive coach/consultant who has provided strategic counsel across a broad array of industries.  Her background includes extensive corporate sales/marketing experience in financial and professional services.
 
Joe Tomaselli 
The skills that will matter most for leaders in the next few years are interpersonal competencies.  Executives more often run into problems over issues relating to interpersonal effectiveness or emotional competencies rather than functional skills.  Those charged with executive development need to address this area creatively to help executives achieve their full potential.

A key outcome of coaching is often a change in self-concept.  We achieve this by helping clients gain deeper self-awareness and equipping them to deal effectively with the ambivalence of subordinates, unspoken rivalries of peers and superiors, and complexities of the workplace.  The key is a customized comprehensive assessment, which provides a lens through which clients can clearly see strengths, weaknesses, and barriers to change.  Once they better understand themselves, they can more fully realize personal capacities and achieve integrity in relationships.

A comprehensive assessment process integrates performance-related skills and competencies and emotional competencies, looking at how they interrelate and match up against job criteria and the company’s mission, vision, and values.  The process accelerates understanding for coach and client, helping both consider the impact of styles, proclivities, and patterns in the client’s work environment and create a development plan to facilitate desired change.

Whether the client is a high-potential being groomed for greater responsibility, a seasoned pro in need of focused support to improve skills and effectiveness in tackling business challenges, or a team seeking to enhance synergy, assessment is a powerful tool used in a safe climate with support.  I’ve widened the process to include learning that reveals the client’s values, which inform attitudes and behavior.  Together, we leverage values and strengths to effect desired behavioral change.  When you do this with a team, deeper awareness cascades and generates power within the organization.

Once people really see themselves through the assessment lens, you have their attention.  Then you can identify one or two key areas to focus on and develop a strategy and actionable plan for achieving sustainable change.

His experiences in the pharmaceutical industry and as an entrepreneur and a senior HRD/OE executive have helped make Ayers coach/consultant Joe Tomaselli an expert in facilitating transformational change in executives and organizations.

For more information about coaching services available through The Ayers Group, contact Joan Caruso, Managing Director, Organizational Effectiveness Consulting Practice, at joan.caruso@ayers.com or 212-889-7788.