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+	Leadership Book Series
+	FMI's 360 Feedback
Leadership Videos Online
+	Introduction to the Leadership Institute
+	An In-depth Look at the Leadership Institute
+	Leadership Institute Testimonials

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FMI's Executive Coaching

Just as the best athletes have coaches, strong leaders often have coaches as well. In tough times, the need for coaching is even greater. Our FMI coaches bring more than 100 years of combined coaching experience, coupled with specialized industry knowledge, that can help you through these turbulent times.

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What FMI Executive Coaching clients are saying:

• "When you have the ability to make change and improvement to someone who affects your business, affects the growth of team members and affects your image – can you afford not to complete something like this? My answer is no!"

• "I already have made a greater contribution to this company as a result of coaching – both from a performance and a supervisory standpoint. In working with my group of a dozen people, they have their subordinates as well; I think it’s important how the impact transcends my group."

The "Practical Tools for Exceptional Leaders" booklet series is designed to help you learn and apply best-of-class leadership principles in your life and within your organization.
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A Letter From Ron Magnus, Managing Director

January brings one of the most-watched sporting events in the National Football League playoffs. The playoffs feature finely trained, naturally gifted and highly compensated athletes competing against their elite peers. Those who win do so because of unrelenting focus, superior execution and a dose of good fortune. Looking back on their accomplishments, many of these athletes will reflect on a lifetime of dedicated practice, discipline and sacrifice. And the more grateful champions will undoubtedly reflect on all the people who helped them along the way. In fact, behind every successful performer you are likely to find a great coach.

Just like professional athletes, modern leaders are expected to consistently deliver outstanding results in a relentlessly competitive environment. Until recently, however, few leaders had the advantage of leveraging the support of a coach to accelerate their personal development. The emergence of executive coaching has proven to be one of the most effective means of capturing a competitive talent advantage in the marketplace.

This issue of the Leadership E-news examines executive coaching in depth and describes both the individual and organizational benefits.

Ron Magnus

More Is More: Leaders Coached Simultaneously Means Exponential Impact

Jennifer Jones, Jake Appelman and Tom Alafat

Just as individual coaching can be transformational at an individual leadership level, cadre coaching can be transformational at an overall organizational level.

"I'm not sure what Mark and his coach are working on, but whatever it is, it’s working!” This unsolicited comment and similar ones were made by four different employees at a $1.6 billion general contractor, all referring to a division president. Mark has an executive coach with whom he has been working for the past 12 months to help him strengthen specific leadership skills and, in turn, achieve overarching organizational goals.

The overall impact of coaching was intensified by the fact that not only the division president engaged in coaching, but the entire leadership team worked with an executive coach at the same time. A national A/E/C firm senior vice president also noticed dynamic changes that occurred due to his team of eight having worked with a coach simultaneously. “For us, the communication is better and the trust level is higher. Communication and trust was a huge step in the right direction in order for us to achieve our common objectives.”

Read on to learn how cadre coaching can transform your organization.

Blowing the Whistle: The Buzz on Executive Coaching

Jennifer Jones and Jake Appelman

Executives who have been coached have found direction, purpose and confidence in achieving their goals more quickly than they would have without their coach.

"It’s priceless,” replied one of FMI’s clients when asked to describe the value he and his organization received from his coaching engagement. Then he added, “The construction industry is so business-relationship-oriented. We build buildings and projects, but it is as important for whom we build as what we build. Many of our conflicts are based on people not being able to understand each other. Communication is so important to us; it helps us have a successful project and stay out of litigation. People get into problems because, frankly, they do not communicate very well. A lot of us understand the technical side — most of us are very good at bricks and sticks — but the personal side is the tough part.”

Executives at companies throughout the nation are buzzing about the personal benefits they’ve gained from their coaching experiences. In addition to these personal accounts, the statistics are impressive and support the notion that coaching helps executives and direction and purpose while helping them to achieve their goals faster.

Read on to learn how the benefits of executive coaching are influencing leader development and organizational change.