Executive and Career Coaching
Executive and Career Consulting
Coach Donna Billings
Contact Donna Billings at Reach the Top

 

“As the first Canadian to be Division Managing Director/General Manager for an American based company, Donna coached me as I worked to build a collaborative team among my direct reports located throughout Canada, from Halifax to Vancouver. With her guidance, I learned how to coach my direct reports and manage the multicultural issues between the US Corporate and Canadian Field organization.

Donna also helped me work through the issues of transitioning into a new leadership position that allowed me to live my values and attain a work-life balance. This led me to look for a company with wholesome values and integrity and found exactly that in my present assignment.”

--A. Armstrong
Manitoulin Transport

 

 

“Donna has been the sounding board that propelled me to leave my dead-end corporate job of 22 years and focus on creating a niche in academia. I am now impacting others and leading a totally satisfactory balanced life myself.” --MW, Pittsburgh, PA

 

 

 

“Donna has a very open and welcoming manner that puts everyone at ease. She was able to pull together a group of 12 people from varying backgrounds into a cohesive team in a short period of time. She has a high energy level that gets participants excited about learning—plus she’s a great source for information you can actually use.”

--Ingrid Priskich
Partner, Tusori & Priskich

 

LIFE TRANSITION COACHING

I work with women and men who have been successful in their professional lives and are ready to make major life and/or career transitions for more satisfying and balanced lives.

A Typical Career Transition Coaching Plan:
Together we work on your vision and purpose, where you want to be in five-ten years, and then begin the process of transferring your former strengths and skills into new dimensions that will help you
  • Clarify your vision, values, goals, passion and purpose
  • Conduct a personalized SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats)
  • Develop transferable skill impact statements that you will use to redesign your resume
  • Develop strategies and accountability structures to make your transition from one career to another easier
  • Prepare for informational and behavioral interviews
  • Develop effective networking techniques
  • Strategize for salary negotiations

Are you ready to make that transition? If so, please contact me at donna@reachthetop.net

 

 

EXECUTIVE COACHING

Whether you are a CEO of a corporation or an individual seeking to take the next step in your profession, coaching guidance from Reach the Top will help you obtain solid results more quickly than if you were working alone.

Together we will:
  • Create a customized and specific plan for your success;
  • Fine tune your leadership, management, interpersonal skills to help you succeed;
  • Craft a clear, tangible career action plan for you.

Sample Coaching Process:

Giving and receiving feedback has long been considered to be an essential skill for leaders, but there is a fundamental problem with feedback; it focuses on the past, on what has already occurred.

In the following coaching exercise, my clients are asked to play two roles. In one role, they are asked to provide feedforward—to give someone else suggestions for the future. In the second role, they are asked to accept feedforward—to listen to the suggestions for the future and learn as much as they can. Here are the steps:

  • Pick one behavior that you would like to change.
  • Describe this behavior to selected participants.
  • Ask for feedforward—for two suggestions for the future that might help you achieve a positive change in your selected behavior.
  • Listen attentively to the suggestions and take notes. Thank them for their suggestions.
  • Ask them what they would like to change.
  • Provide feedforward—two suggestions aimed at helping them change.
--taken from the course, Situational Coaching™
and based on the work of Marshall Goldsmith, Executive Coach

Using My Behavioral Coaching Model, I will work with you to:

  • Determine desired behavior in your leadership roles
  • Collect feedback information from your managers and key stakeholders
  • Reach agreement on 1-2 key behavior changes that will make the greatest impact on your life and in your organization
  • Develop an action plan for successful behavior change
  • Review results and determine next steps

Ready to unleash executive talent? Want to develop extraordinary leaders? Discover how by contacting donna@reachthetop.net

 

 

INTERCULTURAL & TEAM RELATIONSHIP SYSTEMS COACHING

Coaching issues around intercultural and team relationships includes exploring ways to increase positivity in the group; how to turn tension and conflict into creative and innovative productivity; how to better communicate in ways that build connection; building shared team values as expressed in mission and vision statements; and how individual roles are impacting the whole relationship system.

Want to learn more about relationship systems coaching? Please contact me at donna@reachthetop.net




 

 
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Reach the Top - Donna Billings - Phone: 724-935-1397 Email: donna@reachthetop.net

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