The last time I gave an elevator speech I walked away convinced that the other person left the conversation with no idea of what I REALLY do. Instead of soaring to the top floor, it was more like someone turned the buttons sideways and I was going nowhere fast! Our conversation sounded something like this:
What do you do?
“I am an executive coach, strategist and consultant”
What does that mean?
“I help individuals and companies improve their level of success”
If my goal was a generic answer, I hit a home run! Hopefully my elevator speech actually sounded better than this and I am being critical of myself. I still believe the content missed the target and does not explain what I REALLY do. This prompted me to really challenge myself and think about how I will answer this question in the future. I created the outline below that is what I actually do and I plan to create a new elevator speech that shoots me to the top floor the next time I am asked, “What do you do?”
I am a proven strategist with a history of creating organizational excellence by offering highly specialized services such as:
ADVISOR TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND C-SUITE EXECUTIVES
- Advancing executive and organizational success by:
- Handling highly sensitive situations with discretion.
- Creating strategy for executive leadership development and providing on-going results-focused coaching.
- Guiding executives through conflict resolution.
- Providing interim leadership during executive search or on-going gap.
- Facilitating strategic planning and resolving critical decisions that impact organizational resilience.
- On-going strategy execution and counsel for organizational challenges.
- Determining effective organizational structure that maximizes resources and overall effectiveness.
- Identifying areas of improvement and change management implementation.
- Providing operational support for critical board directives.
- Analyzing organizational cultural and creating refinement strategy.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND TEAM DYNAMICS
- Improving individual and team effectiveness by:
- Creating coaching strategy and providing on-going individual coaching.
- Development of leadership professionalism, communication, presentation skills and overall advancement plans.
- Assisting with resolving current leadership challenges.
- Providing assessments, goal setting and individual strategy for success.
- Creating and executing a strategy to improve teamwork.
- Resolving team conflict.
MARKETING AND SALES STRATEGY
- Analysis and refinement of sales strategy to achieve growth.
- Refinement of overall branding, product positioning and company marketing.
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
- Creation and delivery of highly-customized leadership, sales, communication, management and employee training.
See you on the top floor!
For more details about my sales solutions training, coaching or strategy, please visit http://www.myersbds.com or contact me at eric@myersbds.com or 563-340-7600.