Envision what can be accomplished when the top leaders in your organization align with the strategy and work together as an integrated team!

Pulse Point's Strategic Leadership (SL) represents a major evolution in the field of executive coaching. It defines the company's goals as the focus of the coaching, shifting the emphasis away from individual improvement to achievement of organizational results.

SL transforms the person-centered approach of traditional coaching into a coordinated and collaborative team-based effort; one that brings individual executives' strengths and opportunities into alignment with both their peers and the business strategy. With SL, firms now have a way to ensure that the organization, not just an individual executive, reaches its goals.

How SL Creates Value across the Organization

The strength of Pulse Point's Strategic Leadership is that we work on real business issues utilizing the optimal combination of group and individual coaching, off-sites, cross-mentoring, feedback and project coordination to:

1. Ensure that each executive understands and aligns with the organization's goals and actively supports the strategies to achieve them.
2. Facilitate critical discussions regarding your major goals, issues and opportunities in a constructive manner by channeling workplace tensions.
3. Establish common language, values and processes that will increase communication and enable the executive team to work more closely together.
4. Increase the trust felt and confidence exhibited by each executive.
5. Push executives toward more creative and expansive thinking regarding ways to achieve transformational results as a high performing organization.
6. Improve each executive's performance capability through limited individual coaching to remove barriers to achieving the organizational goals.
7. Utilize fully the different strengths of each executive across the entire team by establishing and facilitating cross-mentoring.
8. Strengthen decision-making by the primary business sponsor (CEO, President, General Manager) by providing direct and aggregate indirect feedback.

A Strategy for People -- Not a People Strategy

By focusing on the management and leadership skills of the individuals charged with achieving business success, personal behaviors become aligned with the needs of the broader stakeholder groups within the organization. With SL, strategy is driven into the organization in a way that previously was more the result of luck than planning. Strategic Leadership is an integral part of the strategy process, driven by a senior operating executive to achieve operational efficiency and return on investment.

Integrating Strategic Leadership in Your Organization

Pulse Point's SL methodology develops a common knowledge base and understanding among key executives and their teams to create the feedback loops and cross-mentoring which build trust, confidence and alignment throughout the organization. Gone are the "silos" created by misaligned processes and conflicting performance metrics. SL ensures that meaningful conversations occur at the right time, among the necessary participants, and become a catalyst to understanding and action instead of a barrier, especially in situations involving conflict.

Strategic Leadership can be implemented at any time, including during periods of change and/or stress: prior to a major strategic re-alignment; during the yearly goal setting process; or after a merger or acquisition. Like any critical strategic process, SL is most efficiently introduced as a best practice prior to the start of strategic change initiatives -- while the organization is performing well -- so that you will maintain your edge even during periods of transition.

Strategic Leadership may be supplemented by traditional executive coaching with select individuals to help them fully reach their potential by making desired individual behavioral changes. Personalized coaching when done in concert with SL has a higher expectation for success because the coaching, the alignment with others in the organization, and the resulting behavioral change is fully contextualized and reinforced by the other team members.

Alan S. Berson, SL Coach

As a Strategic Leadership coach, Alan S. Berson is skilled at working on an individual and team (group) level as both a coach and business professional. He understands how leadership, system concepts and learning all come together to drive behavioral change and to ensure that executives and their teams accomplish specific, agreed-upon, business results. He is as comfortable and competent with the integration and strategic aspects of the work as he is with the behavioral and process components.