Question 1

What's effective about coaching?

Accepted Answer

Coaching is a powerful and collaborative process between you and your coach that helps you learn about and understand your behavior, your natural strengths and capabilities, what gets in your way, and how to move forward with a clear plan of action so that you can be an even more powerful leader and build great teams. A coach is an objective and invested partner who walks with you through this process while you practice new skills, critical during challenging times or when you want or need to build new skills as a leader.

Question 2

Who typically brings in Executive Coaching?

Accepted Answer

CEO's and heads of HR working with leaders who need to make positive changes at work.
Executives transitioning to new roles, promoted or joining a new company.
Physician leaders who want to advance in their careers to Chair or Chief.

Question 3

How does Executive Coaching with Joanne work?

Accepted Answer

Joanne’s collaborative and results-oriented style supports her clients to create measurable, noticeable, and lasting change and success. Her clients have been promoted to vice presidents, C-suite roles, Department Chairs and Chiefs in academic health centers, and turned around challenging relationships.

She works effectively to on-board new leaders to improve time to productivity, develop high potential leaders who achieve their next level career goals, and manage 360° feedback processes so that executives and team members become aware of their strengths and areas of development.

Question 4

What is a coaching session like?

Accepted Answer

Awareness, Understanding, and then Action are the 3 Phases to Joanne’s signature coaching framework.  Along with a variety of assessments, you'll first become aware of your strengths and obstacles to changing your desired behaviors, and then come to understand why and how those behaviors have impacted others and has served you well as a leader. Only then do you move to action, defining specific skills and behaviors that that you want to learn or change through coaching.

Clients report that by working with Joanne they set higher goals, create momentum, transform old ways of thinking and acting, and achieve satisfaction and confidence that they hadn’t thought possible.

Question 5

Why do physicians and executives work with Joanne?

Accepted Answer

People hire Joanne for who she is. Clients report a coaching experience that is exciting, powerful, honest, humorous, authentic, eye-opening, and action oriented that changes behavior and moves them forward to achieve more than they expected. And, physician leaders get the jobs they want!

Question 6

Does Joanne work with new executives?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Joanne is passionate about helping new executives create and fully utilize their onboarding plans. Through her affiliation with Genesis, co-created by Michael Watkins (author of The First 90 Days), she also works with companies at scale to bring “onboarding to all”.

Question 7

How can I determine if Executive Coaching is right for me or my team?

Accepted Answer

The first 30-minute session is complimentary so you and Joanne can decide if you’re a good match for each other. Following that, depending on your situation, your goals, and your sponsoring company, you and Joanne generally meet twice a month for at least 6 months with unlimited email in between. Sessions are held by Zoom and fees are determined before you start working together.

Question 8

Is coaching confidential?

Accepted Answer

Absolutely. The working relationship you build must be based on knowing that Joanne is completely trustworthy. What's said in coaching, stays in coaching. Period.

Question 9

Is coaching like therapy?

Accepted Answer

They are different. Therapy focuses on the past and on emotional issues to help you understand yourself better. Coaching focuses on your present situation, on understanding what you can do right now to create the future you want.

Many of Joanne’s clients have worked with a therapist in the past, or currently do. She supports anything you do to become aware of yourself and your strengths, and to understand what issues block you from having the success you really want.

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