Wanda Floyd
Executive and Career Coaching, LLC
Ways We Partner
Why Coaching?
Whether you are (a) enhancing your leadership capacity, (b) honing or maximizing your leadership or professional skills, (c) changing, pivoting, want to advance, or improve in your career, (d) transitioning, and/or (e) reintegrating – partnering with me will be invaluable and beneficial.
You are probably asking yourself why work with a professional? Well, think of it this way, our world and industries evolve daily, and this evolution is triggered by companies that didn’t exist 5 to 10 years ago. In fact, the Institute for the Future reported that over 85% of the jobs in 2030 have yet to be created.
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To help you answer the above question, review the below questions and if you answered yes to even one (1) of the questions, I encourage you to complete my 'Discovery Call' form and schedule your free 'Discovery Call'.
“Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard Leadership Development training for elite executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals.”
CNN.com
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"Stop making excuses; you're the only one stopping you." ~Issa Rae
Have applied for countless jobs and received minimum and in some cases zero responses?
Just became a new leader
or manager?
Have an overwhelming sense of uncertainty of what your true path is both personally and professionally?
Are at a crossroad personally and professionally and uncertain about which path to take?
Are you reintegrating to private-sector/civilian-sector,
corporate, or academia?
Want to build your self-confidence and feel more valuable?
Want to hone your leadership and management skills?
Making or want a career change or pivot?
Want to advance to the next level?
Are you transitioning out of the military?
Do you want to gain greater insight into what obstacles are preventing you from moving forward and what you need to change to bring about faster success?
When to Hire a Career Coach?
If you ask 10 people when to hire a Coach, you will probably get 10 different responses. If you conduct a Google search you will find that Coaches are sought out after an individual has applied for numerous jobs and/or is in a desperate position, but Coaches are beneficial at various junctions in your career. Whether you are entering the job market, changing careers, becoming a new manager, advancing to the next level, honing your leadership and management skills, looking to grow professionally, changing organizations, etc., the expertise and support of a Coach can be extremely beneficial.
My advice is to not wait until you absolutely need a Coach to hire one!
Overview of How It All Works
I partner with my clients beginning the process with the creation of a tailored/customized Coaching Experience. It is important that I have a clear understanding of my client’s development and growth needs as well as to understand what success looks like to them – what is their desired outcome. It is vital to their success, that we work together to ensure we modify the contents and structure before moving forward.
Once we have a clear path, I deliver my custom experiences using various live, interactive platforms and instructions in primarily a virtual, face-to-face as requested, environment.
I offer my clients an experience that ends in success by positioning them to see immediate and near-term results, to implement best practices, and to achieve their strategic goals ensuring they are delivered a return on their investment. My Coaching is a partnership that will enable my clients to progress toward achieving their personal and professional goals with greater clarity, focus, momentum, and success by finding their ‘right’ answers.
~WANDA FLOYD
Today, we are making a commitment to work together to identify and better understand already existing skills, talents, and experiences, uncover areas of improvement, discover opportunities, and then create a plan so that we are able to transform your career and life, so you are able to begin your journey to achieve success.
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We are going to partner to jump-start your process to – (1) Hit the ‘Reset’ button; (2) ‘Revive’ your passion, interests, goals, objectives, commitments, skills, and/or talents; and (3) ‘Thrive’ in your existing or new career to discover the best version of yourself.
Step 1: Reset
Goal: Our goal here is to get you to a place where you are actively planning so that you can reboot so to speak - reigniting your inner power and energy - that power and energy you use to challenge yourself in other aspects and/or situations of your life. We are not looking to change your inner workings but change how you are currently functioning, thinking, living, working, and/or going about your day-to-day. This is not an easy process, particularly not as easy as rebooting your computer by simply pressing the power button.
Goal: Our goal is to uncover, restore, rejuvenate, and/or renew whether it be your passion, interests, goals, objectives, commitments, skills, talents, education, etc. We need to better understand, and in some cases discover, the reasons that brought you here so that we can help you to self-reflect and set goals. We also need to gain greater insight into your existing skills and talents so that we are better positioned to determine needs, and resources, and align them across a diverse spectrum of career choices. We want to work to enhance and strengthen existing skills and talents and identify needed ones and the best available resources. During this step, we will also focus on identifying any leadership and/or career gaps so that we can provide you with the necessary tools to develop a plan of action for how to best incorporate innovative solutions.
Step 2: Revive
Step 3: Thrive
Goal: Our goal here is to ignite a new RESILIENCY! We must have a clear understanding of the things that anchor you so we can develop a plan to deal with and ultimately overcome them and if we are unable to overcome them then devise a plan to ensure they work in your favor and not as a hindrance.
We will work together to identify ways to aid you in overcoming those beliefs that have caused limitations, so we are able to assist, moving forward, in helping you find your voice, so you are comfortable and ultimately positioned to use your voice.
No matter where we are in our lives and careers there is always room for growth and to learn and discover new things.
I help my clients discover their core drivers which assists in the process of understanding what makes them unique while shaping their learning and development aligning with their strengths to realize their full potential.
My Coaching Experiences provide you with the knowledge, support, tools, and awareness to make lifelong mindsets and behavior transformations both personally and professionally. I offer a diverse set of Coaching Experiences that align my ‘Pillars for Finding Your Voice & Unleashing Your Full Potential Framework’ to ensure the specific and unique needs of each individual or team are met whether working in corporate, thinking about a career change, or pivot, considering becoming an entrepreneur, transitioning from the military, thinking about retirement, or seeking leadership or career development. You have come to the right place!
One of the first questions I ask my clients is “What does success look like to you?”
Whether you are entering the job market, changing careers, becoming a new manager, advancing to the next level, changing organizations, or want to hone your leadership and management skills, transitioning, reintegrating, etc., the expertise and support of a Coach can be extremely beneficial. I leverage my years of experience, expertise, and training to offer client-centric coaching services that are customized to meet each unique clients’, whether an individual or team, needs ensuring to address their distinctive challenges while incorporating the necessary tools to facilitate continuous individual, leadership, management and/or team growth and transformation. I offer various Coaching Experiences & Learning Development Courses & Workshops. My 1:1 Coaching Sessions are an investment in your family, your employees, your clients, your company, and yourself. They are tailored to meet your specific and unique needs. I use a multi-dimensional coaching and transformational learning theories with authentic and actionable practicalities and will provide an objective perspective toward goal setting, the best techniques to measure progress, and implementing best practices that will support you now as well as in the future. My clients acquire a sense of awareness which allows them to view each situation in a different light and from a different perspective. They achieve a heightened sense of awareness transforming mindsets and behaviors. They develop a degree of confidence resulting in the self-realized power to innovatively create their own solutions and ultimately find clarity. As a result, they lead their organizations through change, foster emotional resilience, ensure growth, they lead influential, powerful, effective leadership teams and/or become members of highly functioning and performing teams. No one knows you better than you! So, in this process, you are the subject matter expert. You will decide, with me as your guide: What our focus will be. What the result will be. Coaching is a process, YOUR process, designed to help you achieve transformational change (i.e., lasting, and fundamental change based on new values, behaviors, and beliefs). Your process can be as structured, I will also respond flexibly depending on your needs, as you deem necessary. The overarching intent is to raise awareness, deepen learning, generate responsibility, and build self-belief.
We will work together to build trust, establish mutual respect, and create transparency. Our partnership is a coach-client relationship that will be fueled by positive energy and forward-thinking. Our engagements and interactions will be co-creative and proactive as we take steps to achieve your goals and objectives.
Let’s Get Started!
My Role!
Executive and Career Coaching relationships are partnerships built on trust and mutual respect. In my role as your coach, I will remain focused on guiding you as we work together to develop the right approach to achieve your objectives. I will help you create persistent habits of showing up to discover the endless possibilities on the journey to turn them into realities.
My job is to provide you the tools to implement the necessary actions to complete your master career plan as well as provide coaching during your decision-making, critical thinking, and brainstorming, and follow through assignments processes. In my coaching role, I am not a therapist and any issue that requires such special expertise will be referred to someone else who holds proper credentials.
As a certified coach, I will use my years of experience, training, and knowledge as well as effective written and verbal communication skills to support you in achieving your professional and personal goals. As a team, we are more powerful and will work together to position you to achieve lifelong change and take action to achieve your goals.
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I will listen closely to you, respond to what I hear, and ask questions.
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I will honor your agenda and work to support you in reaching your goals.
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Be flexible.
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Be trusting.
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Show up for our engagements.
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Research, research, research.
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I will encourage and be open to your feedback.
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Through the coaching process I will, by the end of the session, help you identify actions that you are ready to take.
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I may make additional requests for you to stretch yourself or deepen the work done in the session by writing, taking on a task, or resolving an issue. You are free to negotiate, accept, or decline these requests.
​Your Role!
Executive and Career Coaching relationships are partnerships built on trust and mutual respect. In your role, you will partner with me and your family and in some cases your manager and company to transform your life and career.
As my client, you will work towards building confidence and trust in me and my ability to coach, teach, and guide you on your journey to find the right fit through the usage of a result-driven process that begins with designing your new, creative, and innovative master career plan that aligns to your (a) personal and family goals, (b) values, (c) talents, and (d) passion.
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Believe in and trust yourself and your instincts.
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Partner with me to find your voice.
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Commit to the process, fully invested.
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Treat our Executive or Career Coaching relationship as a priority.
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Challenge yourself by stretching your limits, testing your boundaries, and taking a leap of Faith.
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Be 100% honest - candor, vulnerable, real, unguarded, sincere.
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Embrace and adapt to the change this process will have on you, your family, and your life.
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Build, or strengthen courage and resilience.
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Be coachable, meaning be open-minded and non-defensive.
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Be flexible.
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Be trusting.
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Show up for our engagements.
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Research, research, research.
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Do your assignments.
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Overcome limiting beliefs by refusing to allow past and present obstacles, boundaries, stereotypes, and/or challenges to prevent you from moving forward.
TAKE A LOOK AT MY COACHING EXPERIENCES’ & FIND THE ONE THAT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS!
My Coaching Experiences
With over four decades of coaching, advising, leading, managing, and/or mentoring executives, leaders, managers, individual contributors, and teams, I mastered my coaching process which offers extraordinary results and impact. I incorporate multi-dimensional coaching and transformational learning theories with authentic and actionable practicalities and will provide an objective perspective toward goal setting, the best techniques to measure progress, and implementing best practices that will support you now as well as in the future. My clients:
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Personal lives and careers are transformed as they experience noteworthy growth personally and organizationally.
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Acquire a sense of awareness that allows them to view each situation in a different light and perspective.
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Achieve a heightened sense of awareness transforming mindsets and behaviors.
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Develop a degree of confidence resulting in the self-realized power to innovatively create their own solutions and ultimately find clarity.
As a result, my clients lead their organizations through change, foster emotional resilience, ensure growth, lead influential, powerful, effective leadership teams, and/or become members of high-performing organizations and teams.
One-on-One Coaching Partnerships
My 1:1 Coaching Sessions allow me to offer my clients personal attention affording me the opportunity to gain greater insight and understanding of the unique challenges that my clients are experiencing positioning me to effectively guide them on their journey of success.
My 1:1 Coaching Sessions, although tailored to fit each client’s unique needs, can take on a variety of forms and cover a diverse group of concepts, topics, and areas of growth to ensure that they aid (a) each of my client’s efforts and (b) in their process of achieving their goals.
As a seasoned coach and thought leader, I support and guide my clients so that they are not trying to figure this out themselves or take this journey alone. I partner with my clients to help them assess and develop plans to enhance their current skills and talents as well as identify and learn what new skills and opportunities they want to explore for them to continuously develop and grow.
Our partnership aids in equipping them with greater insight, and maturity, and obtaining self-knowledge of their interests, skills, strengths, areas of improvement, and opportunities which are vital to ensuring their continuous growth and effectively planning for their career not only setting 1-year to 3-year goals and milestones but long-term goals as well.
What does this mean to you? I will support you in the process of determining what’s significant to you, and help you to better understand your talents, your personality, the type of career that aligns with your values, skills, and experience as well as where you will thrive.
Working with me can also be beneficial in the sense that I will aid in helping you showcase your unique talents by identifying those areas that showcase your talents, impact your influence, and make you the most worthwhile candidate by helping you to:
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Gain clarity because it is time for change.
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Put things in perspective.
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Assess various approaches before determining the best approach.
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Trust your instincts and believe in yourself.
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Challenge yourself by stretching your limits, testing your boundaries, and taking a leap of Faith.
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Identify your strengths, skills, talents, areas of improvement, interests, passion, etc.
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Create a personal life plan and a career plan.
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Identify your next steps.
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Move forward to achieve your next steps.
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Understand what success looks like in your career and life for you.
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Move forward to living your most purposeful life.
1:1 Executive Coaching
If you’re driven, accomplished, and professionally motivated, then my 1:1 Executive Coaching is for you.
Through my one-on-one 100% customized Executive Coaching, I partner with successful executives who want to refine their skills and stretch their capacity while harnessing even greater organizational potential to discover more clarity and have a greater impact on their organization. I guide them on their journey of optimizing their functionality focusing on deepening expertise in leadership, influencing, communication, increasing executive effectiveness and capacity, thinking more strategically, managing, and sustaining culture, building collaborative executive leadership teams, strengthening emotional intelligence, growing leadership competencies, and fostering optimal performance in others.
TAKE A LOOK AT MY EXECUTIVE COACHING EXPERIENCES’ & FIND THE ONE THAT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS!
1:1 Leadership Coaching
If you’re passionate, experienced, and professionally inspired, then my 1:1 Leadership Coaching is for you.
Through my one-on-one customized Leadership Coaching, I partner with successful leaders who want to strengthen their skills and stretch their capacity while harnessing even greater organizational potential to discover more clarity to have a greater impact on their organization while focusing on optimizing their values and strengths, creating greater authenticity, cultivating communicating strategies, enhancing influence talents, expanding stakeholders’ capacity, solidifying emotional intelligence, and strengthening and sustaining the passion to lead.
TAKE A LOOK AT MY LEADERSHIP COACHING EXPERIENCES’ & FIND THE ONE THAT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS!
1:1 Career Coaching
If you’re determined, skilled, and career-minded, then my 1:1 Career Coaching is for you.
Through my one-on-one 100% customized Career Coaching, I partner with individual’ contributors and emerging managers and leaders to aid in their process of optimizing their functionality in their roles and on their journey of becoming highly functioning members of their organizations and the best version of themselves. I offer support, multi-dimensional tools, and best practices that assist in navigating the next steps while building toolkits focused on growth areas such as organizational vision & mission, identifying & building management and leadership skills, communication, emotional intelligence, career development, time management, performance management, change management, problem-solving, virtual communication skills, collaboration, facilitation, coaching, networking, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
TAKE A LOOK AT MY CAREER COACHING EXPERIENCES’ & FIND THE ONE THAT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS!
Team Coaching
If you’re want to engage in a creative process of furthering your team’s, and ultimately your organization, effectiveness through strengthened guidance, partnership, and commitment, then
my Cohort-based Team Coaching is for you.
Through my cohort-based 100% customized Team Coaching, I partner with teams to both (a) aid in the process of optimizing the team’s functionality as a whole and (b) facilitate the team’s process of learning as a whole on their journey of becoming highly functioning teams. I support the team in gaining greater insight into factors such as the uniqueness of each team member; the team’s member commitment; reconciling differences and/or competing agendas; defining and coming together on shared purposes; enhancing self-awareness of personal traits and behaviors and the alignment and influence on the team as a whole; and partnering to create guiding viewpoints to accomplish the vision and strategy of the organization.
I offer support, multi-dimensional tools, and best practices that assist in navigating the next steps while building toolkits focused on growth areas such as organizational vision and mission, team building and cohesive, interpersonal skills, communication, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, virtual communication skills, collaboration, presentation skills, etc.
TAKE A LOOK AT MY TEAM COACHING EXPERIENCES’ & FIND THE ONE THAT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS!
Leadership Development
My Leadership Development Learning Experiences
My customized Leadership Development Learning Experiences are focused on both the beliefs and behaviors of great leadership aiding in the empowerment and development of organizations’ Executives, Leaders, Managers, Emerging Leaders, and Leadership Teams. I incorporate personal assessments, professional development, and skills instruction. You will depart with tools, knowledge, and best practices that you will be able to immediately execute. They also consist of a series of interactive learning events and engagements that are either:
Coaching Experience Learning Enhancements
One-on-One Sessions
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1:1 Leadership Development Learning Sessions
Workshops
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Cohort-based Leadership Development Learning Workshops
Leadership Development Learning Experiences
One-on-One Sessions
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1:1 Leadership Development Learning Sessions
Workshops
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Cohort-based Leadership Development Learning Workshops
TAKE A LOOK AT MY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEARNING EXPERIENCES’ & FIND THE ONE THAT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS!
Professional Development
My Professional Development Learning Experiences
My customized Professional Development Learning Experiences are focused on both the beliefs and behaviors of great leadership aiding in the empowerment and development of organizations’ Individual Contributors and Teams. I incorporate personal assessments, professional development, and skills instruction. You will depart with tools, knowledge, and best practices that you will be able to immediately execute. They also consist of a series of interactive learning events and engagements that are either:
Coaching Experience Learning Enhancements
One-on-One Sessions
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1:1 Professional Development Learning Sessions
Workshops
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Cohort-based Professional Development Learning Workshops
Professional Development Learning Experiences
One-on-One Sessions
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1:1 Professional Development Learning Sessions
Workshops
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Cohort-based Professional Development Learning Workshops
TAKE A LOOK AT MY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEARNING EXPERIENCES’ & FIND THE ONE THAT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS!
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