Over the years our partners have provided a variety of business coaching services to our clients. Peter Lytle, our managing and senior partner, is a trained and highly experienced coach who leads our team of coaching professionals. We have worked for over fifteen years with individuals and families helping them achieve their personal goals and objectives.

Our coaching services are highly confidential, respect your privacy and desire to keep your information and any interaction with us inside the walls of your office. We will never release your name to anyone for reference purposes, marketing or publicity.

Training, Consulting or Coaching?

While training, consulting and facilitation can produce powerful results, coaching provides the missing components to create lasting change: Accountability and commitment. Transformation occurs more readily when organizations include coaching, to support leaders and teams to follow-up and follow-through.

Why do business owners, managers and key employees use a coach instead of a management consultant?

Coaching requires diverse and different skill sets; the focus is less on the numbers and far more focused on management and personal development techniques. A very high quality coach is always seasoned, has likely been the CEO and or Chairman of one or more companies, has personal financial stability gained from growing a business, knows a great deal about numerous industries, is extremely well educated, has a stable and balanced personal life, is very well networked, a good teacher and is personable and can speak intelligently at any level. While many management consultants can boast these attributes, most management-consulting firms still give their clients the associate, junior partner or first year MBA to work with. A coach is definitely not your average businessperson.

A good coach works one-on-one with key individuals in an organization to help them maximize their potential. A coach can help the client become more focused, motivated, enthusiastic and productive. A coach is not always a psychologist, a coach must, however understand learning styles, behavioral patterns, cultural differences and the nature of male and female communication and interaction styles. A coach will aid in the support and training of individuals who are looking for ways to better manage a diverse staff, grow with a job, reduce the stress of a job, make a work environment productive and rewarding for other members of a staff and management team.

There are very few individuals that are really good at all aspects of management, (or even like it), have the time to effectively sort out the issues they face each day, or have a seasoned professional with whom they can ask confidential questions. This is valuable.

How long does a coaching program last and how much will it cost?

Coaching is quickly becoming one of the business community's most effective tools for the acceleration of learning and professional development in the workplace and in individual lives. Coaching is replacing seminars, classes, workshops and the "school of hard knocks". It is often a long-term relationship, based on regularly scheduled meeting from once a week to once a quarter where the coach and client meet to cover an agenda required to meet the client's long-term goals. The cost will vary based on the time required by the client. You can expect to see costs equal to those of your attorney, CPA or other professional.

Coaching is a collaborative process that involves self-discovery, goal setting and strategic actions. A good coach will work with you to design and create exceptional results. Through the process of coaching, you will expand and increase your learning, management experience, improve your performance, and enhance your quality of life. Quality coaching can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. The result is less stress, more fun and better personal functionality.

Family Business Coaching

Working in a family business is more complex than almost any other kind of business environment. Issues relating to reporting structure, financial privacy, family politics, nepotism, transition of authority, longevity of the business, exit strategies, favoritism and a host of other issues often require an outside perspective and an experience family coach to provide support, direction and create a win-win environment. We provide coaching services to aid our clients in transitional planning, exit strategies, management development and all levels of planning, decision reviews and professional development.

We also have on staff a professional psychologist for those individuals or firms that prefer the privacy of more discrete discussions and without the interactions of their family or family doctors. Many of these consulting expenses can be paid with an individuals health insurance program.