What is the EM Breakthrough program?
Northway Insights’ EM Breakthrough is a 9-month private leadership coaching program for software engineering leaders at all levels. When you join, you’ll experience the following:
- A comprehensive, scientific leadership competency assessment to help you identify the strengths and opportunities that have the greatest impact on your ability to lead. (See What is the Harrison Assessment? below.)
- A custom leadership development plan, created jointly, in which you will identify the primary leadership competencies you wish to improve as well as the concrete steps you will take to make those improvements.
- Twice-monthly 60-minute confidential, one-on-one leadership coaching sessions with Steve Dwire to help you overcome the specific challenges you face as you develop your leadership skills.
- A second leadership competency assessment to help you measure and demonstrate progress with the leadership competencies you elected to improve.
That “complimentary coaching call” is really just a sales pitch in disguise. Isn’t it?
It really is a coaching call. I will show up ready to serve you with as much focus and dedication as I give to my paying clients. In return, I expect you to come with a real leadership challenge that you’d like to work through together in a distraction-free environment.
The purpose of the complimentary coaching call is four-fold:
- You’ll get some immediate help with whatever is most pressing in your leadership journey.
- You’ll see how I coach, and you’ll be able to decide if you’d like to work together with me.
- I’ll learn more about you, what challenges you’re facing, and how you respond to the way I coach.
At the end of the conversation, one or more of the following will happen:
- You will walk away with at least one actionable insight to help you move forward in your leadership journey.
- I may let you know that a different coach or professional would be better suited to help with your situation, and I may offer to make an introduction to someone who could help.
- I may recommend other resources that may give you the kind of guidance you are looking for.
- I may invite you to sign up for the EM Breakthrough program.
- I may suggest a different coaching program for your consideration.
- I may offer a second complimentary coaching conversation to help you with your immediate situation.
Regardless of the outcome, you will receive value from the complimentary coaching call. You may receive an invitation for further coaching, but if you decline I will not try to change your mind.
Who is Gloriana Teh, and what is her role in this program?
Gloriana is a coach with Claritas Consulting & Coaching LLC. She is my partner provider for the Harrison Assessment and leadership competency reports. If you participate in the program, then after you complete your assessment online, you and Gloriana and I (Steve) will have a three-way program kickoff call where she will present the results of your assessment and cover the resources and reports available to help you develop your leadership plan.
You and I will work with those resources to help you define your personal leadership development plan and achieve your desired improvement.
What is the Harrison Assessment?
Most strength assessments and personality/behavior profiles tend to imagine strengths as competing with one another. Or they may presume that the presence of a strength implies a risk of overusing that strength until it becomes a weakness.
Harrison is the only assessment I have found that recognizes that strengths can be paradoxical and complementary, rather than competing. For example, it is possible for someone to be strong in both frankness and diplomacy. The two qualities are not opposite ends of a single spectrum. With the Harrison assessment, paradoxical and complimentary qualities like those are understood as two different axes of a given competency.
Your assessment will highlight how your unique combinations of strengths support or complicate your ability to lead across a myriad of leadership competencies. And you’ll receive a personal debrief to help you understand and apply the insights from your assessment reports.
Sample Reports: