Let us tell you about our Personal Coaching Approach, Executive Coaching Approach and Core Beliefs in all coaching engagements, below:

Personal Coaching Approach:

When you hire an Inner Power coach for personal coaching, we support you in DISCOVERING your unique inner strengths, CREATING new possibilities for business and life (where none seemed to exist), and reaching the peak of your personal LEADERSHIP.

At each stage, new mindsets, skillsets and energetics of personal leadership are called for. Our approach to coaching helps you develop these capabilities and integrates practices and tools from cultures around the world.

When we decide to form a coaching partnership, the next step is an in-depth "discovery session", which usually lasts 1.5 - 2 hours. We'll identify your core personal/professional goals, review results from various assessment tools and then develop a results-oriented strategy and partnership designed to transform your vision into action!

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Executive Coaching Approach:

Executive coaching is a highly individualized professional development process that encourages you to look at yourself through a different lens, and take actions to drive higher levels of leadership impact and organizational results. When you work with an IPI coach for executive coaching, we will move through a process of discovery, goal-setting, and strategic action together.

Depending on the purpose of the executive coaching, the basic process is as follows:

1) Data Gathering and initial Contracting among relevant parties

• This is about setting ourselves up for success. What is the need, and how do you and the organization see that executive coaching can help?

2) Assessment and Feedback

• Can include informal 360 degree feedback interviews with your boss, peers, and direct reports or a more formal 360 degree feedback assessment process. We are certified in PDI's Profilor® and CCL's Benchmarks®. Or you may choose to use your organization's 360 tool.
  
• Will also include one or more of the following assessments:
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI)
  • DiSC® Behavioral Styles Indicator
  • Change Cycle Locator®
  • Cultural Orientations Indicator®
    
• Another powerful approach that can be leveraged in the Assessment Phase is "shadowing" the executive. This entails spending 1-1.5 days with the executive in his/her daily life on the job, observing the leader in action. This approach allows the coach to see how the leader perceives the organizational and team dynamics, how he/she presents him/herself, gains commitment and influences others. Real-time observation and feedback of leadership behavior and impact linked to actual business events can have a profound impact on the leader being coached, allowing him/her to see the self in a clear, fact-based, manner, and identify clear coaching priorities.
• The outcome of the assessment phase is a comprehensive feedback session where we review and interpret the assessment data with you to help you make sense of and assimilate the information.

3) Planning

• After gathering all the relevant data and results from the assessment tools, we are ready to design a personalized strength and development action plan. We look for ways to build on your strengths (often overlooked in many coaching approaches), minimize weaknesses, and highlight factors that could lead to derailment.
• We prioritize areas of development and map out a coaching plan together.
  
• We complete a development plan with you and review the plan with your boss or HR staff, if necessary.

4) Strategic Action Coaching

• Now we help you get into strategic action around the most critical areas of development, building strong momentum.
• As part of this process, we encourage all clients to respond to their stakeholders, sharing what they are working on, and openly soliciting additional feedback.
• We will also develop an ongoing follow-up process with key stakeholders. On a regular basis, solicit feedback -- i.e. "Based upon my behavior last month, what ideas do you have for me next month?" Keeps the focus on the future.
  
• Other components that are included in this phase are:
  • Unlimited e-mail support between sessions
  • Lightning coaching" calls of 5-10 minutes before or after a major meeting, presentation or negotiation.
  • Role playing, as needed, to develop new mindsets, skillsets and leadership energetics.
  • Shared resources, articles, tip sheets
  • Editing of communications for impact or leadership presence
  • Update meeting with your boss or HR staff, if necessary.

5) Evaluation and Follow-Up

• As we wrap up the coaching relationship, we evaluate results together, and we follow up with key stakeholders to measure success.
  
• We also schedule one follow-up meeting 6 months after the completion of a coaching relationship, which includes the creation of a "maintenance plan" to help you, your boss and other stakeholders be aware of roles each plays in maintaining the progress made and furthering the success.

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Core Coaching Beliefs

In all the work we do, IPI coaches share the following beliefs:

Start Where You Are

To get where you're going, you need to know where you are. Sounds like a simple and logical first step. Yet all too often the daily stresses of business and life may have pushed us off our intended path, driving us farther and farther away from real clarity.

In our work, much clarity (and relief) comes just by carving out the mental space and time to reflect on exactly where you truly are at this point in your business or life, and what the organizational or personal realities are. We take all aspects of your professional or personal challenges and "dump them out on the table" as part of the initial assessment process. Then we sort through them together and tell the TRUTH about WHAT IS before we set a plan for what you want to achieve.

The Quality of Your Life is Determined by the Quality of the Questions You Ask

What you focus on, you get in return.

The kinds of questions you ask yourself determine what you are focused on, and therefore the answers you will perceive as possibilities for your life. To change the quality of your life or business results, you need to examine the kinds of questions you ask yourself, and the underlying beliefs that create those questions. In our coaching sessions, we will continually ask powerful questions of you, opening up new possibilities and ways forward.

Left Brain, Meet the Right Brain

Many of us have mastered logical, linear thinking in our professional and personal lives. We know how to analyze a situation logically, make objective evaluations and cut to the "bottom line". Left-brain driven intellectual abilities are important skills to develop, but when we try to apply the same way of thinking to major life changes and business decisions, we often get trapped in our own analysis, feeling like we are somehow missing something. Such approaches to business challenges and life changes don't produce the kind of results you need because they bypass the language of success: imagination and emotion. Olympic athletes know all about these powerful keys to success. In our coaching sessions, we will teach you powerful tools that help you tap into the language of imagery and turn your choices into sustainable results.

Expand Your Potential through Small but Powerful Steps Forward

It's the actions we take and hold ourselves accountable for that marks the difference between those that create powerful new personal and professional realities for themselves and those that don't. A coaching partnership can provide you a practical framework and supportive relationship to help you take full responsibility for taking action and creating a life you love.

No Limits!

We see business and life as an adventure. When you work with us, we encourage you to take a leap of faith that there are no real limits to what you can do during our time together. When you treat the focus of your coaching as an exploration, it gives you the license to try new strategies, tools and beliefs and see how much you can make your business and life the way you want it throughout our coaching sessions. All we ask is that you come to each coaching session with an open mind and heart, and a willingness to explore, observe and take action.

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At Inner Power International,we see a world where authentic leadership and clear communication across differences are the norm, not fear. A world where more and more people understand global cultural differences and are acting out of integrity, trust and respect. Our company is based in Hawaii and specializes in personal and organizational transformation and sustainability - helping leaders, teams and organizations master the process of change, often across cultural lines, and sustain peak performance and leadership impact over time. We provide Leadership Development Support in Hawaii as well as Executive Coaching.