The Situation: Engineer at a Fortune 100 Company:
- The engineer displayed offensive emotional outbursts (yelling, arguing, making disparaging remarks).
- Company leadership considered the engineer a high potential person.
- His behavior had to change or he would not be promoted or given new opportunities.
Our Goal:
- Help the engineer manage himself more effectively when he is frustrated.
The Solution:
- Help the engineer realize that he has choices.
- Train him to self evaluate to take effective control of his choices and behaviors in frustrating situations.
- Identify the situations that are difficult for him and how he can use his strengths in those situations.
- Challenge him to use his strengths to think and act in new ways.
- Gain agreement on specific behaviors he will apply and hold him accountable for keeping those agreements.
- Provide feedback and encouragement to create the desired behavior change.
- Identify the engineer's personal motivations for making the agreed to changes.
Services Provided:
- Assess leadership Behaviors, Motivations, Emotional Intelligence, Worldview and Self view. More...
- Executive coaching. More...
The Results:
- The engineer manages himself effectively in situations that would have been difficult for him in the past.
- He is excited about what he has accomplished and is confident that he can continue being effective.
- He was rated as "exceeds expectations" in his recent performance review.
- He received a large bonus and is being considered for several upcoming opportunities.
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