Professional Tune-Up for Leaders and Managers

“The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.”
J. Paul Getty
1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon

We’ve taken out all the stops on this one! We call it our “Personal and Professional Development Coaching Special”. Success Discoveries Personal and Professional Development Tune-Up™ combines the insights of a certified professional coach with leading-edge talent assessments and a sophisticated profile of your job that together are used to create a personalized professional development plan and then put those plans into action.

You’ll be impressed from the beginning with the comprehensive and accurate information in the assessment reports you receive. With your certified coach, you’ll leverage insights from the assessments and immediately begin developing skills where you’ll benefit the most.

Your assessment results will create greater self-awareness. That self-awareness serves you by enabling you to focus on the right areas for development so you reach new levels in your job and career faster. When you are more aware of your job’s requirements and your talents you can then assemble a highly customized professional development plan that serves as the catalyst for taking you where you want to go. Your coach will support you in a way that makes sense to you.

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You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School?

Mac Anderson, Founder of Simple Truths and Successories, offers a great perspective that we’ve been pushing for almost as long as he has. His short film, You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School, makes the point to “hire” the talent needed to do the job. You can then teach the product and even the industry. Through The Nielson Group, we offer highly reliable tools and strategies to increase your hiring effectiveness. Learn more at The Nielson Group or contact .

The message is valid. However, the argument that “leadership skills” can’t be taught or developed is very wrong. Certainly a smaller organization must hire the leadership skills. But a larger organization must have a leadership development program and take steps to ensure everyone in the organization interested in moving into the ranks of management is provided some level of develoopment. Bench strength is going to be the difference when the economic recovery takes hold. Those who keep their jobs need to be actively engaged in leadership development. Click Read More to watch the movie by Mac Anderson. 

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