Leadership Development
Building your vision, presence and energy to lead with impact
We work one to one with company leaders, executive committee members and the high-potential managers preparing to join them. Work on how you show up, on high-stakes decisions, and on the leadership capabilities that make it possible to carry them.
Who we work with
• Company leaders and chief executives
• Executive committee and leadership team members
• Board members and board committee chairs
• High potentials on a career track towards executive committee level
We also work with HR and talent development teams looking to offer support to one of their leaders or high potentials.
In that case, the three-way contracting is set out at the first conversation.
Some of the issues we work on
✓ Preparing for an executive role
Arriving ready for the step up, rather than learning the codes on the way.
✓ A high-stakes new role
Reading the map and the ground, choosing the right priorities and making your mark.
✓ The need for new strategic momentum
Reopening the question of direction, and giving your team the appetite to go there.
✓ Loss of meaning
Restoring the fit between what you do and what matters to you.
✓ Pressure and exhaustion
Taking back control of your energy, staying the leader of your own life.
✓ Career transition
Putting the past in its proper place and building what comes next, rather than taking what the market hands you.
How we work
Our engagements take a variety of formats, tailored to what you need.
✓ One-to-one coaching: ten to twelve two-hour sessions over eight to twelve months.
✓ Support for a new role: six closely spaced sessions over the first four months, then three or four more over the following eight.
✓ Mentoring: a short format, four to six sessions, focused on the “how”.
✓ One-off session: preparing for a board meeting, a negotiation or a high-stakes presentation.
Where and how?
Our engagements are conducted mainly in French and in English, by video and in person, in private meeting spaces or on your own site. Rhumb Lines Partners is based in Paris, and we also travel across Europe.
The tools and models we favour
Hogan
Measuring your drivers and the gap between your intentions and the way others see you, including the behaviours that escape you under heavy pressure.
MBTI
Understanding your natural way of processing information, deciding and acting, and adjusting to profiles that do not work the way you do.
Process Communication Model
Spotting in real time what is blocking a relationship, in you as much as in the other person, and knowing how to defuse it.
Symbolic coaching
Freeing your creativity, or speeding up your grasp of a situation, by taking a route other than reasoning.
Neuro-training
Clearing the stress patterns imprinted in body and mind, to restore your energy and your freedom to act.
YOUR QUESTIONS
I take up my new role in a few weeks. Is it too early for coaching?
It is the best moment.
The first hundred days turn on what you did not see coming: the house codes, the alliances already in place, the expectations nobody spells out.
Preparing your move, and being supported through the first months, means treating your own integration as a strategic objective. Because it is one.
I have left my company. Can Rhumb Lines Partners support me through a career transition?
Yes. These outplacement assignments are contracted either with you directly or with your former employer when the departure is negotiated. We work alongside you as a sparring partner, combining coaching, advisory and mentoring depending on the step ahead. Through to the role that will let you be the leader you want to be.
Do you work differently with women leaders?
Yes and no.
No, because a woman who leads faces a leader’s issues.
And yes, because as a woman leader myself I have learned in the field that those who lead, or want to, meet difficulties of their own.
Let’s talk about your situation
Tell us about your context and goals, so we can define the support that best fits your needs.
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