This is an exciting time of year inside of an organization. It’s the first quarter and leaders and teams are in anticipation of the year ahead. There are strategies to roll out, leaders to promote, relocate, and develop. There are high potentials who were identified prior to the end of the previous year as being ready for new projects, promotions, exposure to deeper enterprise inner workings. Many knowledgeable CEOs and Senior Management know that coaching and development are essential for their leaders to be ready and create the desired self-awareness, mindset, and education on lifelong learning for their current, upcoming, and future leadership roles.

Here at inviteCHANGE, we’ve been seeing a business trend with our Enterprise
Solutions and a solution that is attracting more attention: Generative Character Development Coaching.

Let’s highlight two of our satisfied clients and hear how Generative Character Development Coaching supported their learning, leading, and life.

Amy Jacobsen: I started with inviteCHANGE’s Sarah Graves, PCC, at the end of 2018. My goals were to increase confidence, improve public speaking and prepare for leadership opportunities. The action plan Sarah and I built out with different activities, which included two Tilt365 character inventories, True Tilt Profile, and the Positive Influence Predictor, and tools to support helped me grow in a way I hadn’t imagined. We worked together to ensure I would succeed in the specific goals set out via the Leadership Development Plan, and I accomplished them. After almost a year of hard work and growth, in January 2020, I was awarded Employee of the Year at my company of 500+ individuals. I’m grateful for my time and continue to pull from the “toolbox” we put together. Working with a coach truly changed my professional life, and my company gained a better individual/team player through it.

Merritt Olson-Baer: I have been in sales my entire career, so naturally, I am drawn to results-oriented, data-driven practices. After some encouragement from my mentor and other leaders within my organization, I skeptically agreed to Generative Character Development Coaching. I honestly could not see how focusing on emotions and “soft skills” would measurably impact my results, but after going through this process I can attest that there have been real and tangible benefits.

I am less stressed, and my team reports higher levels of happiness. Despite being in the midst of a global pandemic, we had the best fourth quarter we have ever had and I attribute some of that success to the coaching I received from Sarah, which really helped inspire me and my team. We communicated better than ever and while we hit some road bumps, we also overcame them quickly by taking them head-on with trust and empathy.

The thing I appreciate the most about my experience with coaching is that it's allowed me to understand that I can grow and change and that the process of becoming a better leader and team member is a lifelong learning process. I love that instead of being told that my personality is fixed (like other assessments but not the Tilt365 PIP) and that I need to learn tools for how to deal with my shortcomings, the inviteCHANGE approach is that we all have the ability to be and do better, and we just have to commit to the work of doing it. It's a beautiful thing-very empowering!

This quote sums it up perfectly:

“Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? Flora or fauna, we are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”