Services
Executive Coaching for Individuals and Teams
The core of our business, Better Tools executive coaching works with passionate, skilled, and experienced leaders as their coach and advisor. Our coaches work with clients to identify key desired outcomes, assess strengths and weaknesses, prepare for risks, and take advantage of opportunities.
From there, the coach works with the client to prioritize goals and then craft a strategy focused on personal ownership, specific behavioral change, and skill building.
The coach provides guidance, accountability, honest feedback, and a wealth of diverse tools and knowledge to help the client execute their plan successfully.
Executive coaching is only appropriate for professional leaders with real problems, lofty goals, and the willingness to do what it takes to achieve success.
Communications Improvement
Our team has a background in managing communications improvement programs for corporate clients when they want to facilitate culture change, launch a new initiative, or improve the communications capability of an individual or team.
We take clients through a rigorous process that identifies key stakeholders and the desired outcome and help plan the campaign of activity needed to make a lasting difference.
This service focuses on internal communications management and is appropriate for companies experiencing a lack of alignment across the organization.
Leadership Assessment and Development
Our staff works with individuals or teams to assess current capabilities, understand the needs of the unique situation, then create and engage with a plan that focuses on maximizing strengths.
Leadership is a nuanced skill with no single path to success and our leadership improvement programs are crafted with the client to provide an ideal outcome.
Our leadership development program is best for successful leaders who are moving into senior roles, high potential junior leaders taking on more significant leadership challenges, and CEOs and Executives who want to hone their skill.
Better Tools does not provide a remedial leadership coaching program.
IT and Business Strategic Alignment
Our Co-Founder Mark Ellestad spend twenty years in corporate IT and was responsible for creating and leading multiple high-performance information technology and software development teams.
For Mark, the secret to IT success is ensuring excellent data-driven alignment between IT leadership and senior business executives, along with a commitment to superior customer service.
Mark can facilitate transformational engagements that lead to excellent return for IT expenses, high levels of trust between IT and company leadership, engaged and enthusiastic IT teams, and business leaders who have confidence that their technology needs are in safe hands.
Growth Planning
Our coaching team has forty years of experience working in dynamic and high-growth environments. They've seen what success and failure looks like and can help you avoid mistakes and take advantage of opportunities.
Being part of a small company of less than 100 people that's transitioning into the 101-1,000 employee space means a very different set of skills, people, and tools are about to become absolutely critical.
Put simply, success with a 50-person company doesn't prepare you to be successful at a 500-person company.
If you or your senior leadership team is struggling with the repercussions of high growth, let Better Tools help smooth the way!
Our Process
01. Establish contact
We work with clients to ensure a good fit before anything is signed or any money changes hands. If there's a fit, the coach and client will identify goals.
02. Pricing & Contracting
contract, including clear ethics and confidentiality sections, are reviewed and signed. A key part is the client's commitment to the process. Coaches can only help a client who's committed!
A typical executive coaching engagement is six months, with clearly defined goals.
03. Project Initiation
The coach and client will work together weekly or bi-weekly as needed for the contract term, creating plans, executive action items, measuring outcomes, and adapting as needed.
04. Project Closure
At the end of the contract term, or when all goals are achieved (whichever comes first) the engagement will end. Clients will have the choice to extend the contract if they'd like their coach to help them with other projects.
05. Ongoing Support
Our coaches provide free ongoing email support for clients for one year after engagement close.
If you'd like some quick advice, help finding a resource self-study to keep improving yourself our team is happy to help!