What is coaching? In this video, the International Coach Federation (ICF) offers an introduction to professional coaching and explains the benefits of partnering with a coach to achieve your goals. What is Coaching? from ICF Headquarters on Vimeo.
Topsarge Business Solutions LLC (TBS) is an experienced leadership development firm that uses both the principles and applications that authentic leadership is broadening and educational. Our overall objectives are to guide our client’s employees to better understand the principles and benefits of authentic leadership and to create an environment of self-discovery, growth, and leadership development through coaching and mentoring. We do that with experienced senior leaders,… Read More »See Some of Our Coaching Successes
Sometimes a client is considering professional business coaching, but they don’t know what coaching session would be like. This is a short tutorial that we created to summarize some of the things we do with our clients. What is a Coaching Session Like? TBS Coaches work with our clients to focus on personal growth and development or organizational change. During coaching, the client and the coach assess… Read More »What is Professional Coaching like?
At TBS, our personnel follows the Professional Certified Coach Markers, as established by the International Coach Federation. These are the competencies that are exhibited throughout each coaching conversation by our personnel: ➢ Competency 1: Ethics and Standards ➢ Competency 2: Creating the Coaching Agreement ➢ Competency 3: Creating Trust and Intimacy ➢ Competency 4: Coaching Presence ➢ Competency 5: Active Listening ➢ Competency 6: Powerful… Read More »Coaching Markers by Professionals
Skillscope is a 360-degree assessment that provides individuals with straightforward, practical feedback on job-related skills necessary for effectiveness in a management role. Skillscope’s simplicity – short survey and easy-to-read reports – also makes it an ideal first step for organizations that are new to the 360-degree assessment process. Special Features Based on research designed to capture managers’ work as it really is Designed to collect… Read More »Skillscope® the 360-degree Assessment Tool
Why have an Executive Coach? TBS executive coaches use an inquiry-based approach to personal and professional development that is aimed at creating awareness, generating action, and facilitating learning and growth. Our coaches focus on improving performance by helping individuals to develop and sustain new perspectives, attitudes, skills, and behaviors. We believe a primary reason to seek out a coach is for professional growth and development, and… Read More »Why an Executive Coach?
Distinct Professional Coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes and managing personal change, but the first one has to define professional and distinct coaching. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand coaching by distinguishing it from other personal or organizational support professions. There are differences between coaching and other activities by professionals that are similar. Some of the techniques and differences are:  Therapy: Therapy deals with healing… Read More »How is Coaching Distinct From Other Service Professions?
Dan Elder, M.S., Executive Coach and Trainer We offer the Killeen-Temple-Waco-Ft Hood our leadership training and executive coaching program to create for you a personalized leadership development and executive coaching program perfect for human resource specialists, supervisors and managers. Executive Coaching is an inquiry-based approach to personal and professional development that is aimed at creating awareness, generating action, and facilitating learning and growth. It focuses on improving… Read More »Central Texas Executive Coaching and Leader Development
Dan Elder is a leadership coach, management consultant, and change agent who has coached and mentored hundreds of leaders at all levels. A retired Command Sergeant Major with more than 26-years serving soldiers and their families, he has deployments to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq, Dan is an author, editor or reviewer on a number of soldier-related books and articles and a member of the International Coaching Federation.… Read More »Dan Elder, Executive Coach
We use multi-source feedback 360-degree assessment tools that provide individuals with straightforward, practical feedback on job-related skills necessary for effectiveness in a management role. Our products simplicity also makes it an ideal first step for organizations that are new to the 360-degree assessment process. Our surveys can be used with supervisors and managers, as well as individual contributors. It is designed to be easy to complete and simple… Read More »360-degree assessments for Killeen, Temple & Waco