Celebrating International Coaching Week 2016: May 16-May 22nd.
In celebration of International Coaching Week, I asked my clients to respond to this question: "What one word would describe the impact coaching has had on you and your life?" This wordle was produced from their answers.
Executive Medical Director, Heart and Vascular Center
"I've noticed a remarkable change in energy and engagement in the physician who's been working with Joy: Providing him coaching was one of the best investments we've made in our practice!"
Vice President: Quality, Safety, and Performance Improvement
"I’ve kept top-of-mind this week that I can’t take ownership of things outside my control, no matter how upsetting. Our conversation last week was impactful. You have such a great way of summarizing key issues and sharing your thoughts succinctly and gently. Thank you for your guidance and insight!"
Managing Director, Medical Group
"Having Joy as an executive coach is the greatest benefit my health system has provided me as part of my professional development. What has been most helpful is that while some executive coaches focus on “dealing” with other people, Joy’s focus has been completely on me – understanding myself, and dealing with me & how I view myself. Once I gained an understanding and appreciation of my skills and personality, I was much more capable to interact with other people and respond appropriately to difficult situations.
Joy’s optimism and energy is infectious. Her spirit and genuine interest into my well being led to immediate trust and a bond of friendship.
One of the factors that has kept me using Joy’s coaching for almost two years is the holistic and balanced approach. Joy’s focus on the whole person – the professional, the relational, and the spiritual leads to true growth and development. This approach ensures that the individual finds balance in life – not just work.
Joy’s emphasis is true personal growth – not tricks or tactics.
Working with Joy, the professional and personal growth I’ve experienced is some of the hardest work I have ever done. Joy challenges you, she pushes you but always lifts you up. It is the phone call I look forward to the most every week."
Joy’s optimism and energy is infectious. Her spirit and genuine interest into my well being led to immediate trust and a bond of friendship.
One of the factors that has kept me using Joy’s coaching for almost two years is the holistic and balanced approach. Joy’s focus on the whole person – the professional, the relational, and the spiritual leads to true growth and development. This approach ensures that the individual finds balance in life – not just work.
Joy’s emphasis is true personal growth – not tricks or tactics.
Working with Joy, the professional and personal growth I’ve experienced is some of the hardest work I have ever done. Joy challenges you, she pushes you but always lifts you up. It is the phone call I look forward to the most every week."
Vice President Inpatient Nursing
“I have had the opportunity to work directly with Joy as a client. As a professional coach, Joy is genuinely in my corner. She is a coach who supported my needs and provided practical, sustainable tools and techniques to successfully and courageously face challenges and obstacles. Joy provided timely, accurate, and objective assessments to foster self improvement and growth. She is a trusted and confidential mentor.
Joy has provided our organization with essential leadership development to facilitate communications, foster transparency, manage change, and cultivate teamwork. She is a role model for our core values, integrity, compassion, excellence, and reverence; guiding her decisions and evident through her work. She has facilitated improvements in patient satisfaction, performance appraisals, conflict management, and leadership development. She inspires peak performance through championing organizational excellence and coaching our leadership team through culture changes necessary to move forward. Whether it is organizational improvements or self improvements, Joy can move it forward towards sustainable success.” Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President, Healthcare
"Joy is an exceptional coach who has worked with me over time to assess key strengths and weaknesses through a variety of means, including formal testing, interviews with peers and direct observation with feedback. She helps me to see how my leadership style influences my relationships and interactions with senior management and direct reports and influences my effectiveness on the team. She clearly understands the dynamics and challenges of working on a senior leadership team.
We work through areas of perceived conflict in advance and I enter difficult interactions with preparation and confidence. Joy brings a high degree of creativity to coaching--it's clear to me that she devotes considerable time in preparations between sessions building on our prior work. And when there is a critical event approaching, she always provides encouragement before and seeks follow-up after both to hear about the outcome but also to reinforce what I've learned. I think this personal touch and level of concern is what helps to distinguish her from the rest!" Manager, Rehabilitation
"It is difficult to describe all the benefits I have derived from my coaching experience with Joy. To begin with, I have developed a better sense of my own value as a leader. The tools we used to get feedback and evaluate my leadership effectiveness and potential have served me well in reinforcing what I often questioned. I now feel I have an objective frame of reference to reinforce my strengths and build my skills. Meeting with Joy has created a small voice in my head that strengthens my resolve and empowers me. I feel "safer" to express ideas and opinions because of our discussions and the work I have done at her recommendation. The best part is that it overflows into my personal life.
I see myself as a stronger mother, a better listener and more insightful friend. Maybe these strengths were always here but my desire to please and focus on what others think clouded my view. I am continuing on this journey towards a better clarity of what's important to me and with Joy's help I hope to find even greater fulfillment in my work and personal life. This will enable me to better use my skills and lead with strength of conviction. I highly recommend Joy's coaching to anyone seeking a better understanding of themselves and what makes them tick, personally or professionally." Vice President Mission and Ministry
"Working with Joy Goldman has been my first experience of having the services of a skilled coach helping me come on board a new organization, take on a new role and respond to a new set of professional expectations. Her coaching is non-directive; i.e., she absolutely believes in the capacity of the person with whom she is working to tap their own inner wisdom and to both identify the options they have and make good choices. Joy helped me identify my needs as a new executive and identify the resources I had available that I had overlooked. Her coaching helped me develop specific, measurable steps I could take to have the best opportunity to become a valued and contributing member of my executive group. I now have resources at my disposal to respond to new challenges that will emerge, and with her help I have developed skills to respond to those challenges in a progressive and effective way. I wholeheartedly recommend Joy Goldman as an executive coach!"
Medical Staff President
" I started working with Joy Goldman a couple of months ago and have found her to be a very knowledgeable, supportive resource who maintains confidentiality and understands many of the issues we face at our hospital.
I meet with her once every 2 weeks for an hour, and it is the best hour of my professional week! She can help you with tactics for dealing with people, situations, meetings, goals, (just to name a few of the things we have touched on). |
Sampling of Clients Served
Director: Physician Enterprise
"I've received more satisfaction and sense of growth from 8 months of working with you than my 5 years of exposure to my former company's leadership program." Medical Director: "I feel that I have made great strides in self-improvement. I also feel that I have tools now that I can work with to continue self improvement in the future. I was naive about the coaching process when we started. I was open and had some fear as what to expect. It was by no means a painful process…. actually I was quite benefited and fulfilled by the entire experience. I feel that if the need arises that I can always call Joy and she will be there to help me through difficult situations." |
Executive Director- Heart and Vascular Services
"It has been my pleasure to have experienced Joy's tremendous support during my on-boarding to a new role. Her experience as a coach has made significant impact on me. During my very difficult transition, she was there "on demand" to facilitate navigating through organizational hurdles. During times of conflict and uncertainty, her insight led me to consider other approaches and directions. I have greatly appreciated Joy's enthusiasm, support and insight."
Vice President, Human Resources
At our hospital, we view coaching as a precious gift to a leader. Joy has worked with several reluctant participants in our organization. Through her exceptional listening, coaching, and communication skills, Joy has taken these participants on a learning journey to make them more effective leaders. The participants have come to appreciate the many benefits of leadership coaching and have expressed their deepest gratitude for having the opportunity to learn from Joy and their experience.
Global Leader
"I could never have estimated the deep value I would derive from working with Joy – nor could I have foreseen how our connection would develop through our coaching conversations. She helped create a space in which I could express both my dreams and vulnerability, holding me safe while at the same time encouraging me to stay as close to the edge as possible. I still hear her questions as I map my way through some life-changing decisions, smiling as I remember how exhausted I sometimes felt at the end of our sessions and now joyfully and curiously navigating by those same questions. I hold a clear image of our sessions together – each of us able to explore our own journeys, separately and together, and engaged in a kind of dance that seemed to emerge in form and shape rather than conform to any model or framework. Perhaps most importantly we took time to celebrate, even the smallest of movements, and that’s a lesson that I will cherish as I continue on my life’s journey."