The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
The wordCoach-koCH-is derived from the Hungarian town of Kocs; Kocsi was a word for a cart or wagon, short for Kocsi Szeker-cart of Kocs-a horse drawn carriage. It provided a way for someone to travel from where they were to where they wanted to be, which is a lovely way to think about coaching today.
David Coaches Individuals and Teams
Highly effective leaders and teams are differentiated by their emotional intelligence and ability to collaborate. Coaching provides a means for expanding personal awareness, understanding and challenging underlying assumptions and mindsets, developing skills and increasing knowledge. A coaching relationship unleashes a person’s potential to maximize performance while learning through experiential methodology: exploration, experimentation and practice. David’s clients significantly increase their personal effectiveness.
Coaching Individuals
A 4-6 month intensive coaching engagement with David begins with identifying strengths and areas for improvement through interviews and 360-degree feedback. Coaching is focused on increasing self-awareness about emotional responses and behavioral tendencies illuminating a wider range of behaviors to be interpersonally effective with peers, subordinates and managing upwards. David’s clients learn strategies for building greater personal and team resilience in the presence of organizational uncertainty, stress and anxiety. David helps hold clients accountable for the changes they want to make in communicating, resolving conflict, building trust, setting strategy and creating alignment in whatever environment they work in.
Coaching Teams
David is known for creating intimate environments in which teams develop greater trust while building skills together experientially. Teams use facilitated practice to learn to deliver crisp, direct feedback while gaining knowledge, skills and experience in more effective leadership and collaboration.
The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
