Sandy,
Your input on Friday was absolutely the best 30 minutes I've spent with anyone for several years. There's not much more to add to that statement. You helped me size up what I wanted to do, in what priority I wanted to do it and how I might do it. Perhaps that's a sloppy construction but it was a priceless take away for me. As a consequence I'm going to adjust my conversations to address both the big picture and the more immediate. Now on to the execution, the fun part.

Jim

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STUDY ON COACHING AND LEADERSHIP:  from "Maximizing the Impact of Executive Coaching: Behavioral Change, Organizational Outcomes, and Return on Investment"
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This study produced strong evidence of the effectiveness of executive coaching. Effectiveness was demonstrated across all five levels of evaluation, beginning with participants’ reactions: 86 percent of participants and 74 percent of stakeholders were “very satisfied” or “extremely satisfied.” Seventy-three percent of participants considered that they had achieved their goals “very effectively” or “extremely effectively,” as did 54 percent of stakeholders.There were only 12 cases where participants reported not sustaining at least one of their developmental priorities. Most exciting of all were the estimates of return on investment.As indicated earlier, when estimated in the most conservative manner, ROI averaged nearly $100,000 for the sample, or 5.7 times the initial estimate. Some estimates were as high as $1 million, $5 million, or even $25 million."