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Prior Coaching Success, Inspiring Passion, and Cultural Insights
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Each GROVEWELL coach has years of coaching experience prior to being qualified by the partners.   The candidate is interviewed at length, and references are obtained from previously coached executives.  The partners insure that all GROVEWELL coaches share high ethical and human values, and – most importantly – bring enthusiasm and successful outcomes to their work.  GROVEWELL coaches love to coach; for them, it’s a calling.  Their passion is inspiring.

Each of our coaches is mature and well-rounded through broad life experience.  Many are globally minded as a result of having lived and worked internationally; some are multilingual.  Each has experience-honed insights into subtle cultural differences and similarities.  Each is able to weave those insights into the practice of his or her vocation – enabling global executives to see new possibilities for working effectively across cultures, mindsets, and business styles.

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Relationship-Orientation, Corporate Experience, and Adaptability
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Our coaches are deeply relationship-oriented as well as results-oriented.  They have ample corporate experience – many have had significant profit & loss responsibility in large global firms – and grasp the complexities of a client firm’s business imperatives.  Because of their authenticity and integrity, GROVEWELL’s coaches quickly gain the trust of coachees and work with them at the level of values and beliefs – the level where transformative change takes root.
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Other characteristics that help to distinguish the GROVEWELL executive coach are that he or she…

• Believes that building on strengths is the most effective path to executive development
• Is an outstanding listener, totally present for the coachee, deeply committed to his success
• Has the global experience, flexibility, and judgment to adapt to the coachee’s needs and style
• Contributes to the coaching agenda, based on his or her diverse international experiences.

Life-Long Learners in an Interacting Worldwide Community
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GROVEWELL is more than a coaching provider.  It’s also a worldwide community of life-long learners.   As newcomers join us, they are integrated into GROVEWELL’s organizational culture, which includes learning from one another and sharing the most effective practices for coaching the executives of global corporations.

Partners and Coaches with Commitments to Their Clients

GROVEWELL’s partners and each GROVEWELL coach share the following commitments to each client firm:

All GROVEWELL Executive Coaches…

1. Represent themselves accurately to the client firm and to the coachee, never claiming or implying possession of background experience or competence that they don’t possess.
2. Provide the client firm and the coachee with accurate information about what outcomes and benefits can be expected from executive coaching.
3. Take every precaution to insure that all information obtained during an executive coaching engagement remains confidential.
4. Remain true to the intentions and ideals of GROVEWELL’s Coaching for Global Advantage^SMby being alert and insightful regarding the coachee’s subtle cultural characteristics and preferences.
5. Establish a relationship with the coachee’s manager(s) and other key stakeholders identified by the coachee and the client.
6. Use effectively, to the direct benefit of the coachee, all preparation time billed to the client firm, and are thoroughly prepared for every coaching session.
7. Are open to feedback from the coachee, and from the coachee’s manager(s) and other stakeholders, in order to insure that the coaching is as effective as possible.
8. Avoid scrupulously all conduct that could be construed as discriminatory or harassing.
9. Disclose to the coachee and to GROVEWELL’s partners any significant factor that could be construed as in conflict with the interests of the coachee or of the client firm.
10. Recognize emerging situations that are outside their expertise as well as signs that the coachee is no longer benefiting from the coaching engagement, and discuss these observations and their recommendations with the coachee, the coachee’s manager(s), and with GROVEWELL’s partners.

Additional Information
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At the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication -- in its 29th year during 2005 -- GROVEWELL's partner Dr. Cornelius Grove and senior associate Kathleen Molloy recently taught "Executive Coaching in Intercultural Perspective."  For a testimonial about this course, click here.
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Coaching for Global Advantage^SM is available worldwide.  For professional biographies of our CGA coaches in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America, click here.
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For specific information or to inquire about engaging a coach, contact partner Willa Hallowell at +1-718-857-4377 or willa@grovewell.com.
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More web-based information about Coaching for Global Advantage^SM is just a click away at the various links below.

The most experienced course attendee, long an internal coach of executives and senior professionals from Asia and other locations abroad at a major American organization, wrote this about GROVEWELL's SIIC course:

The "Executive Coaching in the Intercultural Perspective" course offered by GROVEWELL LLC was a profound and dynamic demonstration of the intercultural learning process.  They have elegantly synthesized a wealth of knowledge and wisdom into pragmatic models and methods and deep personal insights relevant for any professional.  An experience greatly enhanced by the generous, delightful trainers, who are truly experts in their fields.

Suzanne L. Balaoing
Kaiser Permanente