Eagle Performance Ltd

Executive Coaching, Executive Advisory & Team Motivation

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Paris - London - New York

Services

A company greatest asset is its people. Companies’ success today relies more and more on team performance, team spirit, team values & individual contribution. Eagle Performance has been trading since 2001 to bring best practice coaching/advisory techniques to senior management and their teams across all industries and countries. Eagle Performance, your “all weather partner”, offers the following services to help companies improve the performance of their teams (click below for details):

• Executive Coaching & Executive Advisory
• Management & Strategic Consulting
• Management Development & Training
• Team Performance & Team Building
• Sales Performance & Sales Training
• Motivational Speakers for Corporate Events
• Training Publications

Executive Coaching & Executive Advisory

• Individual one-to-one coaching with leverage of the Coaching Academy©

We define with our clients’ their objectives, main challenges, constraints and opportunities. We meet regularly face to face in a total confidentiality and we try to establish a trustful and effective rapport, helping our client with empathy, reformulation, parallel thinking and experience sharing. We act on the side as a neutral advisor, out of the chain of command and we aim for quick wins when possible.

We take advantage of our in-depth CoachWare© catalogue of best practice tools, tips and advice.

• 100 days coaching/advisory program

Most of the executives are one day promoted into a new position where they will feel exposed and at risk. We suggest rolling out our specific program: the CoachWare© 100 day plan. We will help the executive to approach this new challenge through 5 phases:

The get sorted phase

The get accepted phase

The get informed phase

The get planning phase

And the get moving phase

• Career transition coaching/advisory

In the event where an executive has lost his position or his job, he may feel distressed and worried by the prospect of finding a new job or simply of informing his environment of his sudden situation change.

We help executives to go through this crisis positively and effectively. Unlike an outplacement which could take longer and cost much more, we suggest a “flash coaching/advisory program” through 5 phases:

The get mourning phase

The get valued phase

The get planning phase

The get rehearsing phase

The get following-up phase.

Management & Strategic Consulting

• Global (internal or external) corporate program design & facilitation

We operate with our client’s project team at the design phase, at the building phase up to the roll out phase. We help to get things moving, to avoid obstacles, to improve internal and external communication and promotion of the project benefits. Being external of the power base is usually very effective.

Leveraging years of project management is also a great way to bring experience to our client. We also can identify other issues to address before they become a problem such as vision, objectives, priorities, leadership, communication, reward and overall staff motivation.

• Management & Business situation assessment

Client management often ask us to come and observe management dynamism, teams, projects, client relationships, partnerships, alliances or simply internal organisation and share at the end of our mission our main observations and suggestions to move forward. We observe new management teams in place as well as old and well oiled structures.

Clients recommend we keep our common sense and our challenging attitude toward internal politics and governance best practices.

• Interim & Project Management

One step further is when clients invite us to take a real management role within their organisation. We therefore become part of their management team and we operate a mission on an agreed duration until we reach specific stages or milestones. We can step in the role of head of sales, head of business development, head of operations or simply play specific role such as CMO: chief motivation officer.

Management Development & Training

• Leadership - Leadership identification, stimulation & Creativity development session

Through a group’s conversation leveraging our CoachWare© we help individual or team to assess and re-discover the power of leadership and the magic of creativity. We help people to be more creative in meetings, in workshops or simply in their daily work life.

• Staff & Self Motivation – People Skills, etc

Through conversation leveraging our CoachWare©, we help individuals or groups to understand the mechanism of motivation. We make people discover how they feel valued, what are fulfilling their life and how to maintain a high level of energy. We also revisit the basis of people's relationships and the pillars of building rapport with colleagues, management, staff and clients.

• Conflict Resolution & Mediation

Sitting on the side of current problems can help to resolve issue or minimise conflict impact. Helping the people involved in a conflict to read the causes and roots and not just the consequences of their problem is valuable.

Being neutral is paramount. Intervening as a mediator when the conflict persists is a serious option.

• Time management & top business priorities

Most of executives agree that time and priorities management is difficult. We help them to address these challenges by leveraging tips, advices and best practice tools from our CoachWare©. One hour saved a day represents as many as 24 days on a 12 months basis we can spend in doing other things.

• Presentation & communication skills coaching

When we know that most of the success of a pitch or of a presentation is in the way we deliver it, it is easy to improve the hit ratio and the impact of public speaking by leveraging tools from our CoachWare©. We help executives to rehearse, to position their voice, to work on their body language, to get confident on their own ability to speak in public. We revisit the basis of communication with the help of video or recorder.

• Executive relationship & networking development

It is not what you know but who you know sometimes. We assist executives in how to meet new contacts, how to develop their own network, how to leverage existing networks, how to introduce themselves, and how to deal with being the new kid on the block. Managing connections, establishing a new contact, push-pull networking could be a full time job.

• Life balance, diet & exercise stimulation

Many executives have lost their great resolution of the New Year due to heavy schedules. The consequence could result in poor performance. Leveraging best practice tips, advices and tools from our CoachWare© will help executives to gain effectiveness. Re-including physical exercise in their schedule is paramount.

Exercise combined with a healthy diet improves their general well being. Introducing just moderate amounts of exercise can prevent chronic health conditions, boost confidence and self-esteem, while reducing stress.

Re-balancing their social, family and personal life will bring them happiness.

• Stress management

We work with many executives, highly exposed to stress, fatigue and candidates for the burn-out syndrome. We have been following executives after a burn out experience in reconstructing their business and personal life, re-setting their priorities, re-establishing common sense principles and foundations.

We may also meet with the executive’s family helping a fresh start.

We also advise the executive coming back to his corporate role and we leverage our 100 day plan describe above.

Team Performance & Team Building

• Team & individuals assessment

Most team leaders have to develop or maintain performance at every level of their organisation. Sometimes they build their own team, sometimes not. It is important to apply best practice tools in the assessment phase then in the setting of achievable milestone to get the team performing. Very few executives have a clear picture of the state of their teams and by leveraging our CoachWare© we give them advice on why and then on how to do it.

• Team & individual behaviour diagnostic including cultural & style issues and dealing with perception

Again it is in the “being” more than in the “doing” that we can raise the bar. We help executives and their team to assess their behaviour, their attitude in specific situation, their code of conduct, and their values. We help people to read multicultural signals and to adopt an appropriate approach of diversity. We also help people to manage peer’s perception. Many people would like to improve their style, sometimes it is the right thing to do, sometimes we just need to make people like their own style by leveraging their self-esteem. In both cases we equip people with tools and advices to work on their style by leveraging our CoachWare©.

• Team seminars & team kick-off facilitation

When a large organisation decides to bring its entire staff to an offsite, it often struggle to design the agenda and the activities. We assist organisations from start to finish by suggesting format and catalogue of activities to meet their needs.

We also facilitate the full seminar and provide workshop and ice braking facilitation. We also deliver specific keynotes on the request of our clients on various topics. The quality of the conference or seminar is usually linked with the energy of the facilitator.

• Team building using various unforgettable activities integrated with business models such as rowing, rafting, dragon boats, theatre, painting and wood construction

Over the last 10 years we have been organising hundreds of creative team building seminars for groups of various sizes. We reached a point where we have now a catalogue of great activities that work and deliver above expectation.

We have taken more than 1,000 people rowing or pulling on their dragon boats, hundreds orienteering and hiking, hundreds constructing with wood or simply painting. We have operated everywhere in the world and we work in collaboration with internal event teams or outside incentive firms.

• DreamWare™ board game

We've created a unique board game for the board room. DreamWare™ is a win-win team game, where people will explore their individual quest through a collective quest discovery process. The game invites people to throw a dice and pick up cards, answering these cards publicly and receiving other participants feedback. This game helps a team to buy into a collective vision, a collective goal, and collective values. DreamWare™ is great for any new teams in formation or existing teams in a comfort zone.

The game is not confrontational and respects individual privacy.

Sales Performance & Sales Training

• Sales performance or deal performance diagnostic & training

We have seen so many deals or transactions involving expensive resources and costs going nowhere because something went wrong in the process and no one saw it!

So many bid teams are running on empty and start to make mistake in the design, the coordination, the pricing, the presentation, the team dynamic or simply the relationship with the client. We help bid teams to revisit the overall process and to identify obvious improvements that can help the deal to progress towards the close. We have develop within our CoachWare© the Sales Academy where we help the client bid team to improve their processes step by step.

We approach executives’ business challenges with our 3 legs of a stool model: the “go to market” model, the “operating” model and the overall “communication and values” model.

• Partnership coaching/advisory

In many cases, partnership is needed and relationship evolves into specific vehicles such as PPP or PFI or framework agreement. In all these structures, the relationship between the various members is critical for the success of the transaction. It may be needed to have an external facilitator interviewing the participant along the formation of the structure to avoid obvious mistakes. It may also be interesting to use an external mediator through the life cycle of the project in case little conflicts or frustrations reduce the overall performance.

• Framework agreement, PFI or PPP advisory

In many complex transactions, the teams involved will quickly need to be aligned around common objectives, will need to buy into a set of priorities, a set of values and the day to day life of the contract may well look different than the one described on the contract.

We have been involved in helping the formation of a virtual team, blending the cultures, the style, the personal agenda and the collective agenda.

Organising seminars with both teams of accountable people is often the right approach and building a common scope and code of behaviour a classic session.

Being neutral, out of the chain of command helps a lot in this mediation-advisory role.

• Strategic Account Planning challenging session

When executives focus on their relationship with one client and the level of business done with this client, their “go to market” model, we help them in the assessment of the overall relationship with the client, the quality of the information gathered, the vision of the future business, the control of the power base and the added value proposal. We research the non obvious elements that will make a difference in the long-term future development and we help executive to include these CoachWare© tips and best practice into their management governance.

Motivational Speakers for Corporate Events

• Pre-dinner provoking, interactive & entertaining talks

We deliver bespoke speeches or standard keynote speeches for a client’s seminar or conference.

Any subject in our CoachWare© is available for short 15 minutes address up to 2 hours conference.

We welcome interactive audience.

We can also prepare specific provoking talks on purpose.

We get our inspiration from the economy and from our weekly radio show on executive coaching/advisory which is broadcasted on BFM: www.bfmradio.fr

Training Publications

Eagle Performance also produces a series of training booklets with best practice tools, tips, score cards, checklist and management guidelines on all the above themes, including communication, leadership, public speaking, stress management, client relationships, etc. Please contact us for more information.