Veronica Matthews, President and FounderIn an exclusive interview with Manage HR, Veronica Matthews, president and founder of VLM Coaching and Consulting Services, shares her insights on building exceptional leaders that deliver over-the-top business outcomes. With a passion for mentoring, Veronica has created VLM Coaching and Consulting Services to help clients discover their passions, providing the energy and motivation they need to contribute positively to their organization while living fulfilled and balanced lives.
A Fresh Perspective on Building Leaders
Leadership development services are plentiful in the market. We seek to differentiate ourselves in the leadership development space by customizing our training programs according to the training requirements of each organization. We help leaders explore undiscovered leadership qualities, improve self-awareness, and sharpen their competencies. Our open-minded and agile approach allows us to respond to clients quicker while guiding and motivating their team members toward delivering specific goals. We focus on establishing a higher level of trust and alignment with their vision and impart a greater sense of confidence in managing the unknown future.
Solving Organizational Leadership Challenges Together
Between the great resignation, quiet quitting, and the overall disengagement of employees in the workplace, leaders are ‘building the plane while flying it.’ Even in challenging business environments, when a company’s resources are under tight scrutiny, organizations prioritize training and coaching their leaders.
This is where we come in with our full-scale programs, with frequent yet low-time investment touches, helping organizations focus on leadership training without intervening with their day-to-day obligations.Our interactive, expert-led leadership development programs bring out the fun in online training and coaching, engaging anyone from mid-level managers to senior leaders across various industries through inquiry, discussion, and selfassessment. This empowers leaders to lead strategically amid disruption and complexity.
Redefining Leadership Development Coaching
We believe leadership development is truly effective when it aligns with the goals and objectives of a company. With that in mind, our onboarding begins with an orientation meeting to determine our client’s unique training requirements. This also helps us understand their unique culture and business goals to contextualize the coaching sessions. After extensively analyzing a client’s organization, a needs assessment is conducted to evaluate the challenges and skills needed at each leader level. Multiple strategies are developed, focusing on the particular aspects of what the organization needs. Our flexible program schedule allows them to customize the duration of each program, enabling busy leaders to access world-class coaching. As it’s delivered virtually, geographic limitations and travel are also not an issue.
A substantial portion of the program is dedicated to communication, feedback, and performance management to help leaders transparently set goals, gather data, measure results, and share insights. This creates a tailored solution that best addresses a client’s issues.
Ready to Invest in Your Leader’s Success?
We offer individual and group coaching that equips leaders with the skills to handle complex business situations, bridge boundaries, and shape organizational culture for success.
Our signature program is the 10-month leadership development training program. It commences with a 360-degree assessment of the client’s organization to determine their company culture and improvements that can be made to enhance leadership capabilities. This helps us understand strengths and opportunities for growth. Based on their performance in the assessment, every individual receives feedback from their teams, peers, and leaders.
The results from the feedback are used to close developmental gaps and nurture leaders. A quarterly training session is conducted, followed by a weekly coaching cohort mastermind, where individuals come together to discuss various topics of interest and raise issues they’re facing to get the required assistance. A disc assessment is conducted to measure the dimensions of an individual’s natural and adapted communication styles to assess how they would react to different situations, influence others, and respond to new rules and procedures.
VLM Coaching and Consulting Services combines the power of coaching and training to unleash the true potential of business leaders
Unlocking an Organization’s True Potential
VLM’s clients have a proven track record of achieving personal and professional goals through our leadership coaching and training.
One of our clients, occupied with work, struggled to maintain a worklife balance. Her team performance was also adversely affected. Working closely with our leadership and coaching experts, she was able to build a high-performing team by effectively assessing the strengths and gaps within her team. With our leadership coaching, she maintained an excellent work-life balance while effectively increasing her impact on the organization.
Our insightful coaching sessions help similar leaders better gauge their team’s resources, skills, and areas that need work, which can be immensely beneficial in motivating team members and swiftly resolving issues.
Organizations rely on strong leadership to remain robust, innovative, and competitive. VLM Coaching understands the importance of investing time to ensure organizations give leaders the tools they need to succeed. With such an investment, the payoff is significant: financial success, competitive advantage, and a motivating work environment where employees can thrive.
