Helping organizations
achieve their missions!

Leadership Development &
Executive Coaching

What does it mean to be a leader?

What skills do effective leaders have in common?

When does it make sense to delegate?

How do I bring out the best in those I supervise?

What can I do to make meetings more productive?

I've been to lots of workshops on leadership development, how can I translate what I have learned into what I do on a day to day basis?

These are just a few of the leadership questions that organizations grapple with every day. Peggy can work with you and your staff to take your organization to the next level of leadership.

"The best support I've found for staying with a long range plan is meeting regularly with Peggy as "executive coach," to look again at the big picture and then adapt the plan to the realities of the present."
-Diane Brandon, Director, Community Wellness Coalition, Southern, Maine.

FAQ | Clients

FAQ -

Leadership Development

What Kinds of Trainings does Peggy offer? Peggy has offered workshops on such topics as:

Styles of Leadership
Delegation
Running Effective Meetings
Conveying Your Vision To Those You Supervise
Job-Embedded Leadership Training for Educators

What Is An Executive Coach? An Executive Coach is someone who helps the leader of an organization step back, look at where s/he wants his/her organization to go, and think about what s/he can do to move the organization in that direction.

As the "boss" you may spend a significant portion of your time listening to and guiding the staff you supervise. Experienced leaders know that often the best way they can help develop their staff is by listening - by providing a sounding board where staff reflect on the work they are doing and the direction they want to go.

When you are the "boss" however, there is often no one with whom you can appropriately reflect on your own leadership skills and development. An Executive Coach is one way to fill this need.

What Does An Executive Coach Do? An Executive Coach has two core functions:

To listen - to provide a confidential sounding board - someone with whom you can "think out loud."

To ask compelling questions that help you gain perspective on the work you do and how you do it.

What Doesn't An Executive Coach Do? A good Executive Coach does not:

Tell you what to do- you are the one who is an expert in what you do. The Coach's job is not to tell you what to do, but to help you pull from within yourself the expertise and skills you already possess - to help you work at your best.

Provide personal therapy. Personal and work issues are often intertwined, but a Coach's job is to help you focus on your professional skills and development. If, in addition, you want to work on your personal development, you will do best to seek the assistance of one of the many competent therapists in our community.

Is Leadership Really Something You Can Teach? Leadership is a complex mixture of aptitude/talent and learned skills. Someone who lacks a basic aptitude for leadership can take all of the leadership development seminars in the world and still never be more than a mediocre leader.

However, someone who does have a basic aptitude for leadership can often dramatically increase his/her effectiveness by combining these natural talents with what s/he learns from the growing knowledge base on good management and leadership.

So can you teach a Neanderthal to be a good leader? Probably not. Can you help a natural leader become a better more effective leader? Absolutely.

Clients - Leadership Development & Executive Coaching

Community Child Care Center, Portsmouth, NH

Community Wellness Coalition, York, ME

Dover School Department, Dover, NH

HUB Family Resource Center, Dover, NH

State of New Hampshire Department of Education Best Schools Leadership Initiative, Concord, NH

Woodman Park School, Dover, NH - Woodman Park Success 2000, School Improvement and Math Improvement Project