A Gold Mining Company: The Re-Invention of a CEO
The Client, who was heir apparent for the CEO position of A Gold Mining Company, not only lacked mining industry experience, but his self-effacing persona lacked credibility and brimmed with self-doubt.
The Company asked Synecticsworld to provide the Client with private consulting and leadership coaching to help the Client succeed in his bid to become CEO and use that leadership position to steer his company confidently into the future.
Synecticsworld and the Client worked together to set out the following goals:
- Build relationships and connections of reciprocal value with peers and the Board.
- Develop penetrating levels of self-awareness and awareness of others.
- Build on existing experience and strengths to further equip himself to lead a global enterprise.
- Effectively manage all key relationships within his sphere of influence.
The Client was aware that by accomplishing those lofty goals he would earn the support of his peers and develop the healthy relationships-characterized by mutual respect and understanding that would be crucial to his personal and his company’s success.
And succeed he did. Not only achieving every goal that he and Synecticsworld set, but in his first year at the helm, the Company’s performance exceeded all expectations.
What four stepping-stones did Synecticsworld lay out for the Client that helped guide him down that heroic path?
- In-depth assessments.
- Working to help the Client incorporate his own development goals with the results of psychological insights.
- Role-playing, videotape debriefing, and coaching, all designed to help the Client realize his objectives.
- Inventing new strategies and behaviors to shift the position of his personal brand among the people in his sphere of influence.
Once President and CFO, the Client moved boldly to assemble what would later become the core of his management team in a strategy-making session facilitated by Synecticsworld.
"I couldn't have gotten here without you," the successful CEO said to the Synecticsworld team.
Bearing no resemblance to the self-doubting executive who embarked on the Synecticsworld-led journey, this CEO is now actively sought-after by the boards of other Fortune 500 companies.
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