PEAK PERFORMANCE FOR EXECUTIVES
Expand your performance as a leader
Performance coaching/counseling can be your personal advantage for breaking through barriers, conquering anxieties, recovering from a setback, and rediscovering your passion for your career.
Whether you're an executive in a high-tech company, the CEO of an established small to midsized business, or an entrepreneur building something new, it’s common to experience situations where you feel like you are not doing your best. In this peak performance work, we delve deeper than regular executive coaching or mindset work to enable real, long-term change.
Peak performance work is not about helping you be more in hustle mode or doing more simply for the sake of doing more. That’s often what our culture tells us we should be doing.
Instead, it’s about creating coherence between brain, heart, and body so that you are confident, efficient, and performing in a flow state under difficult circumstances.
WHAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK?
Debilitating Presentation Panic
Ever get that sweaty palms, not-remembering-you-words, heart-racing anxiety, right before a big presentation? Anxiety — It can happen to the best of us. When you are recording a video or podcast, when you are speaking to peers or you boss, or when you are in a meeting—it can happen.
Maybe you’ve hired a presentation coach, a visibility expert, or speaker training, all to no avail.
It hasn’t worked. Probably because those professionals haven’t had the tools to get to the deep heart of what’s keeping you in your anxiety.
If you believe that these “jitters” are holding you back in your professional development or business building, peak performance coaching/counseling will help. We dive deep to get to the root of your anxiety and, through research-based techniques, pull you out of whatever is consistently getting in your way.
Leadership Challenges
Balancing leadership responsibilities, decision-making, and team dynamics can be overwhelming.
The performance protocol I use addresses underlying issues affecting leadership capabilities. This protocol facilitates the processing of past negative experiences that can get in the way of clear leadership.
The result: more effective decision-making and improved leadership skills that come from not just the brain but also the heart. You will have the capacity to stay calmer in times of crisis, listen more effectively to employees and clients, and generally lead with power and grace.
Stress and Burnout
High-pressure work environments can lead to chronic stress and burnout, impacting both personal well-being and professional effectiveness. Whether you are a businessperson, an attorney, a doctor, or other high performer, stress and burnout can interfere with your life.
This performance expansion approach incorporates techniques to help manage stress through a scientifically-proven method of creating heart-rate variability coherence and balancing the nervous system.
This brain-heart coherence enables executives and entrepreneurs to navigate challenges with resilience and clarity. And if you are experiencing burnout, it will help you rekindle your passion, possibly change your focus to something you care more deeply about, and recover from burnout—making work and life more enjoyable.
When is performance coaching helpful to executives?
When you’ve had a bad performance review or have been passed over for a promotion and your confidence and productivity are negatively affected. You may now be afraid to take risks or be as creative as you’d like.
If you are struggling with anxiety about presenting information to your bosses, peers, or any audience. You may be limiting your opportunities to be visible in order to avoid failure or humiliation.
When you have lost your interest and energy in your work or entrepreneurial endeavor, you are not doing well, and other ways of coping have failed you. You may be blocked about the future or even sabotaging your known goals.
If you are contemplating retirement and questions about what will give you value and meaning when you lose your “executive” identity and are surfacing. You may wonder who you are without the job title and high powered position.
Research-proven benefits for executive performance
Catbird Coaching/Counseling’s peak performance method uses the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Performance Protocol, Brainspotting Performance Expansion Protocol, and HeartMath. Through extensive research over the past 30+ years, we know that these protocols have proven benefits.
Innovation Flow
This approach can decrease the fear of failure and facilitate the “flow state” so that you have greater access to your own innovative ideas. This allows you to focus on growth and develop creative ideas for the future.
Burnout Prevention
These techniques diminish the risk of burnout. They help you forge resilience and vitality, which helps you maintain high performance no matter how demanding your role.
Laser Focus
The emotional impact of being pulled in many directions can interfere with focus, negatively affecting a your performance. Processing these effects through EMDR and Brainspotting can help you focus on business strategies as well as personal growth.
Judicious Risk-Taking
These protocols help dismantle barriers to risk-taking by addressing the fear of failure. You can embrace innovation with bravery and curiosity, fostering a culture of creativity within your teams and organizations.
Increased Confidence
Even at the highest levels of management, imposter syndrome can destroy confidence. These performance enhancing techniques allow you to reprocess negative self-beliefs and replace them with enduring more positive beliefs, instilling confidence and self-assurance.
Setting Clear Goals
EMDR, Brainspotting, and HeartMath all enhance mental clarity. After this peak performance work, you will be better able to establish and and follow through to meet clear goals with confidently.
Resolving Conflict
Handling conflicts in the workplace is one of the most stress inducing parts of being a leader. These protocols build your emotional resilience and give you the strength required to deal with conflicts effectively and gain the trust of your teams.
Decision-Making Capacity
This approach helps to reduce the stress involved in organizational changes and the challenges of decision-making. After processing and resolving past distressing events, and learning brain-heart coherence techniques, you will have the capacity for improved clarity and confidence in your decision-making.
This unique style of peak performance coaching and counseling is not something you can get from an executive coach, a mentor, or any other type of coach or teacher. It is available only from a licensed professional who is trained in EMDR, HeartMath, Brainspotting, and other therapeutic models.
Peak performance coaching’/counseling is…
Heart-brain-body coherence work.
Research-based, effective protocols.
“Rewiring” the brain-heart-body connection.
Time-limited and long-lasting.
Peak performance coaching/counseling is not…
Mindset work.
Talk therapy or traditional coaching.
Learning superficial skills.
Long-term work.
The peak performance process explained
In a nutshell, this is the performance enhancement approach we will use to get you to the peak level you desire.
Understand the problem. This includes my talking with you extensively to get a detailed history of the performance issue and how it has manifested in the past and present. I may want to talk with other members of your team—executive coaches, mentors, etc.—to get all perspectives and insights. Sometimes on-site observation and consultation is required in order to get the full picture of what is happening.
Learn and practice Heartmath™ techniques to calm the nervous system and create coherence between brain, heart, and body. I can teach you these biofeedback techniques, and then you will practice them daily until you feel you have mastered them.
Use the EMDR Performance Protocol and Brainspotting to get to the essential cause of the performance problem and deactivate whatever is interfering with your performance.
Follow up to insure that you can maintain brain-body-heart coherence consistently and are performing at the level you desire continually.
Let’s get started.