Workplace Psychology: Trusted CEO and C-Suite Advisors
Leading a business is a highly challenging endeavor. At Workplace Psychology, we specialize in supporting CEOs and C-Suite executives through our C Suite Leadership Development program NY. We address the complexities and uncertainties of leadership through engaging and supportive conversation. Our services include C Suite leadership training NY, CEO coaching, business partner coaching, and leadership team building. With nearly 20 years of experience, our Founding Principal, Dr. Joel Mausner, has provided invaluable advisement to top executives, helping them excel in their roles and navigate enterprise challenges effectively.
Advantages of C Suite Leadership Training Programs NY
Why C Suite Leadership Development NY Matters?
Improved Strategic Planning: Having a trusted advisor can help refine long-term strategies and make them more effective.
Reduced Risk: Expert advice can help C-suite executives identify potential pitfalls and make more informed decisions.
Enhanced Performance: Strategic counsel can improve financial performance, operational efficiency, and overall business success.
Increased Confidence: C-suite leaders can benefit from the reassurance of having an experienced advisor on their side.
Our team of highly acclaimed professionals provides unbiased, deeply experienced wisdom, fresh perspective, creative strategies, and C-suite leadership training to accelerate your company’s performance and growth. We provide strategic counsel and personalized coaching to drive success at every level of the organization. Here is how we can help:
Building a more collaborative and accountable leadership team
Our Approach to C Suite Business Development NY
Tailored C-Suite Business Development Strategies
Through in-depth consultations, we comprehensively understand your company's goals, industry landscape, and competitive environment. We then leverage this knowledge to develop a customized roadmap aligning with your success vision.Our tailored approach ensures that you receive the most impactful solutions, addressing your specific priorities, whether accelerating growth, navigating market disruptions, or optimizing operational efficiency.
Regulating conflicts on the leadership team more constructively
Hiring and firing key senior executives in ways that contain risks
Negotiating politically fraught dynamics with a board of directors
Negotiating emotionally fraught dynamics in a partnership group
Becoming a more compelling champion of organizational vision
Developing a stronger presence as an organizational ambassador
Challenging the organization to change in strategically vital ways
It can be lonely at the top.
But not if ...
Chief Executive Officer Advice
“It’s lonely at the top” – it’s a very old saying because it’s so true. Where do chief executives go when they need someone to talk to? Who do you fully trust to share your concerns with openly? With whom can you unburden yourself in complete candor? And whom can you rely upon to truly understand the difficulties (and stress) of the issues that keep you up at night? No doubt you are an effective leader already, but where can you turn to enhance your skills and grow your confidence to handle the thorniest issues you face? The challenges you confront as a chief executive can be intensely demanding, even daunting at times. And that intensity is only increasing as the pace of change escalates around us. In a world that is increasingly characterized by VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) how do you sustain your balance and clarity to chart a solid course for your enterprise? Would it help to meet with a trusted advisor? - an impartial experienced "sounding board", someone with whom you can vet concerns and ideas in a safe environment, brainstorming approaches and solutions with feedback from an alternate perspective? If some or most of the issues that trouble you are on the people side of your leadership role (not just the business technicalities), we can likely help.
Here is a brief sample of issues that we've helped chief executives manage with greater wisdom and a firmer sense of command:
building a more collaborative and accountable leadership team
regulating conflicts on the leadership team more constructively
hiring and firing key senior executives in ways that contain risks
negotiating politically fraught dynamics with a board of directors
negotiating emotionally fraught dynamics in a partnership group
becoming a more compelling champion of organizational vision
developing stronger presence as an organizational ambassador
challenging the organization to change in strategically vital ways
Workplace Psychology offers leadership advice and executive coaching specifically tailored to CEOs. We can meet with you at our offices in New York City or in White Plains NY, or if you prefer, we can meet on-site at your premises. (We can also conduct our meetings via telephone or video chat.)
“Until my retirement in 2017 (as executive director of a large non-profit), I worked with Dr. Joel Mausner as my leadership coach and trusted advisor for 10 years. His perspective and advice was a great help to me - e.g., in re-structuring the organization, understanding how to develop and best utilize my management team, and scripting how to handle difficult conversations. His coaching questions and insights helped me to articulate and focus my priorities. I always came away from our meetings with enhanced clarity and firmer purpose! Thank you Joel for your years of providing a knowledgeable listening ear.”
Two heads can be better than one.
But only if ...
Business Partner Coaching
Complementing our CEO services, Workplace Psychology also offers Business Partnership Coaching.
The emotional dynamics of a partnership group (or dyad) can have enormous impact (for good or ill) on the culture and success of an enterprise (not to mention the well-being of the partners). A well-functioning partnership can be a thing of beauty: two (or more) heads can indeed be better than one. This is especially true if the partners bring complementary skill sets, and they engage in open dialogue about key issues, particularly about vital disagreements. Conversely however, a troubled partnership can be a recipe for disaster, or at any rate, for destructive conflict and ongoing anguish. Sometimes the conflict is flagrant and intense, marked by heated arguments. Or sometimes the conflict simmers under the surface, marked by a lack of open communication. And quite frequently there is a mixture of both. In any event, the impact is detrimental and can become toxic.
As specialists in interpersonal and group dynamics, we are highly adept at assessing the root causes of partnership dysfunction, and in brokering the difficult conversations required to successfully mend (or dissolve) the arrangement. Partners in conflict often interpret their difficulties in terms of the other's personality problems. This can be the case of course, but in our experience, personality issues are rarely at the root of the difficulties. Rather, there are usually substantive differences in business perspective, or differences in key value priorities, as well as some differences in personality styles. We help the partners in conflict to de-personalize their differences, minimize their distortions of each other, and to re-open channels of clear communication. This allows them to dialogue at the heart of the matter, and to resolve their differences (or dissolve their partnership) on the basis of mutually endorsed facts and with mutual understanding of their divergent value priorities.
“I am the former owner of a media company that was sold to a larger media company in 2016. During a difficult moment in the process, when my business partners and management team weren’t seeing eye-to-eye, Joel proved instrumental in helping us to get on the same page. He not only helped us to communicate through conflict, he brought us to substantive agreements within just a few meetings, which transformed our ability to work together as teammates and partners going forward. We literally couldn’t have succeeded without this!”
Teams are more than sums of parts.
But only when ...
Leadership Team Building
Workplace Psychology specializes in developing high-performing synergistic C-Suite teams. We begin by helping the management group understand the basic ingredients of working together effectively. This is usually accomplished in a single-day team-building workshop. Then (assuming commitment is present) we help CEOs and their C-Suite associates make the difficult but rewarding transition from good to great - that is, from being a mere coordinating group to a truly collaborative team. This involves a more demanding process, which typically requires many months and involves several elements: team assessment, individual coaching, and further training workshops or action-learning projects on targeted issues. All this usually culminates in a multi-day team-building retreat, with debriefing and follow-up as indicated.
The aim and outcome of this demanding process is a high-performing leadership team. Members of such a team don't just communicate relevant knowledge and coordinate functional overlaps across enterprise silos. They also collaborate on initiatives that help to consolidate the overall purpose of the enterprise. That is, all members of the C-Suite take collective responsibility for supporting the CEO in leading the whole enterprise (while still driving success for the specific units they lead). A leadership team such as this has synergistic effects which cascade across the organization: it is a well-aligned and well-engaged team, which fosters a well-engaged and well-aligned enterprise. Such a team imbues the organization with key cultural values - such as collaboration, accountability, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence. And most importantly, this is the sort of C-Suite that enables the sort of enterprise agility that is increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.
Workplace Psychology offers customized team development programs (as well as one-off team-building workshops) that are specifically tailored for the C-Suite.
“As the new CEO of a rapidly growing supply-chain company, I knew we were in some trouble. We were growing too fast to keep up with market demand, customers were complaining and staff morale was suffering. One key problem was clear: how silo-based we were. We needed more flexibility and therefore teamwork, starting from the top. And for that, we had to change the mindset of our otherwise talented management group. Workplace Psychology taught our leaders how to truly collaborate - both strategically and tactically - in ways we couldn’t imagine before! As our leadership teamwork improved, we achieved new operating efficiencies, and our customer’s supply chains moved smoothly again.”
FAQ’s
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The C-suite refers to a corporation's most senior executives, whose titles often start with "Chief," such as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Chief Operating Officer (COO). These leaders are responsible for strategic decision-making and overall direction.
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The C-suite drives business development by setting strategic goals, identifying growth opportunities, overseeing key initiatives, and ensuring alignment across departments to achieve long-term success.
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CEO coaching enhances leadership skills, improves decision-making, fosters innovation, and drives strategic growth. It also helps CEOs navigate challenges, optimize performance, and achieve business goals effectively.
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C-Suite Leadership Training is a specialized development program designed to enhance the skills and effectiveness of senior executives. These programs focus on strategic thinking, leadership capabilities, and organizational impact.
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To enroll in a C-Suite Leadership Training program, visit the provider's website, review the available courses, and follow the registration process. You may need to contact their admissions team for further details and personalized assistance.