Every CEO needs a strong leadership team, but getting talented people into the same room is only the first step. Your top executives must act as a team, rather than as a group of autonomous functional leaders. To do this, they need the right strategy and purpose — and they need to know how to execute both. Why do companies struggle with this, even at the highest levels? One reason is that these words can be fuzzy without context. Another reason is that too many companies view strategy sessions and purpose statements as an exercise or a document to be created and filed away. But purpose and str ..read more

When you think of executive coaching, you probably imagine leaders working one on one with a leadership coach. That’s a tried-and-true method, but it’s not the only option. Instead, what if you could elevate your entire executive team’s performance at once? Leadership team coaching can help your executives become a true team working cohesively toward shared goals.  At Bright Arrow, we like to think of leadership team coaching as something that occurs in the flow of work, not outside of it. By embedding coaches with your team as they go about their work, we can witness real-time, real-life ..read more

In the landscape of executive team coaching, the significance of tailoring each engagement to the unique attributes of a team cannot be emphasized enough. If a coaching firm offers an out-of-the-box program or off-the-shelf set of workshops after a few sales conversations and promises it will solve your issues, look elsewhere. Meeting company goals relies on having well-equipped leaders, and a customized leadership team coaching engagement supports leadership growth. It’s no secret that each company faces distinctive challenges and opportunities, and recognizing that your business is unique is ..read more

Bright Arrow is proud to announce that we are certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s leading third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women. The WBENC Certification process has confirmed that our business is at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by a woman or women, and has the appropriate structure and strategic business planning and implementation in place.  By including women-owned businesses among their suppliers, corporations and government agencies demonstrate their commi ..read more

The cost of a tailored leadership team coaching engagement can vary significantly based on your organization’s unique needs. This range is influenced by factors such as team size, organizational structure, and the goals of the organization, team and senior leadership. It’s important to emphasize that executive leadership team coaching should not be viewed as a standalone expense, but rather as a strategic investment. This investment can yield substantial returns in the form of concrete business results, improved teamwork, enhanced communication, and a more effective, cohesive leadership team ..read more

Tailored to leadership roles and achieving team objectives, leadership coaching engagements demand varying time commitments. Leadership coaches employ real-time observation and experiential learning to understand each leader’s capabilities amid their day-to-day responsibilities. Each step is carefully crafted and personalized, optimizing time while ensuring leadership teams are still able to function effectively in their daily operations. Executive leadership coaching engagements traditionally include a mix of coaching, facilitation, individual- and team-level interventions. These each demand ..read more

Leadership team coaching demands a thoughtful consideration of time and resources to build proficient and fruitful competencies and nurture lasting behavioral shifts. The investment made by the C-suite necessitates strategic planning to synchronize coaching with the organization’s imperatives and timelines. These organizational shifts require ample time and flexibility to maximize the engagement and outcomes for the organization and senior leadership team. How Long Does Leadership Team Coaching Take? Most leadership team coaching engagements last six months or longer due to the time it takes t ..read more

In order to help your leadership team become the best version of itself, and drive the most impactful results, your leadership team coach needs to intimately understand your business, your team dynamics, the individuals on the team, and, most importantly, your goals.  One of the many benefits of selecting Bright Arrow for your leadership team coaching is our approach to learning your business. Your executive team coaches will initiate discovery sessions to learn about the dynamics of your team and provide customized strategies to build a cohesive and effective executive team. Let’s talk a ..read more

Leadership team coaching has a reputation for being three things: A waste of time Focused on the soft stuff Only for “bad leaders” We hate that we kind of have to agree. Often, corporate coaching engagements are out-of-the-box workshops that while well-intended are too generic and only temporarily treat the symptoms, not the cause of organizational misalignment. But even more frustrating than that, most senior leadership team coaching engagements are fundamentally disconnected from the actual business objectives that the selected leaders are charged with achieving. At Bright Arrow, we believ ..read more

Corporate Executive Teams provide the strategic direction and leadership for their organizations. By starting with such an obvious statement I realize I run the risk of you thinking, “no duh, Paul,” and moving on to another article, but stick with me here. I’m stating the obvious because, as a certified executive and leadership team coach for Bright Arrow, I have interacted with too many executive teams who use this or something very similar as their executive team purpose statements. It is all too common to rally around statements that we consider obvious, but when challenged on what they act ..read more