Executive Coaching Focus/Expertise:

60% director to senior management level; 40% entry to mid-level managers and professionals Diversified re: industry, business and function
Purpose:

• Proactive (effectiveness in current or new job; readiness for new role; succession management)
• Problem centered (potential career stall or derailment; felt or perceived difficulties in current job)

Delivery: In-person and/or by telephone

Coaching Approach:

60% of engagements include the use of psychological and/or 360 assessments
Typical number of sessions and time frame: 6 to 12, one to two-hour sessions; 3 to 12 months

Sample Program:

• Orientation
• Assessment completion (or use available data)
• Assessment debriefing
• Initial alignment with internal sponsor or developmental partner
• Development planning
• Solidified alignment with sponsor
• Six follow-up sessions (Some or all follow-up sessions may be conducted by teleconference).

Process Description:

• Clarity on job, career and personal purpose
• Recognition of attitudes, styles and competencies that will enable successful pursuit of one’s purpose
• Insight into strengths and potential roadblocks to achievement
• Commitment to leveraging strengths, rethinking counterproductive attitudes and improving weaker competencies
• Written plan linking developmental strategies to business and career improvement goals
• (Internal) partnerships in building new productive habits
• Continued coaching to maximize the return on investment: Enable learning from successes and mistakes; Build productive attitudes while minimizing counterproductive or self-defeating thinking habits (strengthen emotional intelligence); Discuss methods from selected learning materials and incorporate into the plan and ongoing development process; Model, role play or consult in preparing for critical situations; Solidify relationship between the principal and internal sponsor (as applicable)

Professional and Coaching Experience: Michael B. “Mickey” Fineberg, Ph.D.

Business psychologist for 26 years; 22 years coaching middle to senior level managers

Founded Delta Consultants in 1988; ten years prior, principal with a regional consulting firm

Coaching experience during the past two years:
President, Division Sales VP's and Regional Sales Managers of an orthopedic implant firm; the CEO, direct reporting executives and succession candidates of a power technology company; CEO, VP's and middle managers of an information services company; Marketing Manager of a professional association; senior executives and department directors of a health care management organization; the CEO's and VP's of a commercial insurance company, a real estate development company and a supply chain services firm; Branch General Managers of an industrial services company; a newly promoted technical manager of a consumer pharmaceutical company; the CEO and CFO of a generic pharmaceutical firm.