Success Relies on Effective Leadership, it’s that simple.

How much more effective would your organization be if you had go to Leaders? How gratifying would it feel to know you could turn to any of them to lead a project, process, or team and elevate other employees along the way? Learn more about how PL Coaches and our unique Group Coaching methodology can help your company develop true Leaders.

THE PL COACHES LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Group Coaching is the very best way for people to have sustained and long-lasting learning and behavioral change. PL Coaches leads the way with a unique 16-week coaching program that will help your Managers make the jump to being effective Leaders. There is also a 12-week program available. No other program, seminar, or book brings about such dynamic leadership growth in your managers.

Staying ahead of clients’ dynamic needs is harder than ever, and Managers must adapt in order to thrive in changing market conditions. This Leadership course is designed specifically for Managers to stay relevant to your stakeholders’

ever-changing requirements.

PL Coaches customizes each program to fit your organization's key challenges, language, and culture. Our coaches design and deliver weekly sessions for 5-8 Managers at a time via videoconference. Each week, participants engage in coaching, learning, and exercises that accelerate their growth as Leaders.

The Benefits of PL Coaches

For Managers

Increase the Success of your projects, processes, and teams
Become go-to Leaders
Better navigate the most challenging aspects of projects, processes, and teams
Maximize knowledge retention through cooperative learning, weekly coaching,

For the Entire Organization

Increased levels of Project, Process and Team Success
Improve relationships and teamwork within and across different departments
Boost client/stakeholder satisfaction and employee engagement

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Project Leadership

This program is designed specifically for Project Managers. These managers are running mission critical projects with teams of people who do not report to them, they have all the responsibility and none of the authority. How do they lead them? Usually quite poorly, as they revert to being task managers and focus more on managing the project and less on leading the team. This program changes all that.

The Project Leadership program helps your Project Managers develop their true form of leadership, Influence. They learn how to build an effective project team that is focused on customer objectives, led by a newly transformed Project Leader!

Your Project Leaders learn how to build relationships with project team members, even the contract ones, in such a way that their influence evokes higher levels of project success. The project team is ready to overcome challenges, meet customer demands, and get the job done! This doesn’t happen with a clipboard project manager, it only happens when you have a Project Leader! This program delivers on that goal.

Process Leadership

This program is designed specifically for managers who are running a process. This usually involves a team mixed with direct reports, indirect reports, and contractors. This mixed reporting environment requires a Leader who embraces the principle of leadership is influence.

PL Coaches helps your process managers adopt the Leadership Engine to develop their Influence. Once the training program takes root, the process managers transform into Process Leaders who can take ANY process and process team and deliver higher levels of customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and sustainable results.

If you company culture is closely tied to the use of processes to deliver products and services and you are looking for Leaders to take those processes to the next level, this program is for you!

Team Leadership

This program is different from the Project and Process Leadership programs where the teams do not report formally to the managers. The Team Leadership program helps to develop leaders when the team DOES report to them. PL Coaches help your managers grow past their command and control style to that of a true leader who is operating at the 5th level of leadership – Developing Other Leaders. Imagine a culture where your leaders not only delivered results at a high level, but also developed other future leaders for your firm!

Team Leaders learn how to create and foster high performance teams. Everything rises and falls on leadership and your leaders, so why wouldn’t you want to invest into the most impactful training they will EVER receive. One that enhances their communication style, improves their relationships, increases levels of trust, and delivers higher levels of success.

One-on-One coaching

There are times when someone needs coaching that is focused on their unique needs. In this case One-on-One coaching is the way to go. The program runs in 3 month intervals. You sign up for the first 3 month program, where our coach meets with you in a private Zoom call and the agenda is 100% the clients.

There will be 6 meetings (one every two weeks) for 60 minutes each over the 3 month period. At the end of the 3 month interval, the client decides if they want to sign up for another 3 month interval. This approach is especially effective for senior leaders looking for a more customized coaching experience that doesn't involve a group.

Custom Leadership Program

WHAT LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES MUST A LEADER HAVE?

Leaders are able to positively impact projects, processes, and teams by leveraging influence, by knowing when to lead and when to follow, and by leaving a legacy that inspires others.

PL Coaches helps your managers cultivate Leadership skills through a customized program unique to your organization’s specific challenges, language, and culture. During the sessions, managers explore the Leadership competencies listed below and consider thought-provoking coaching questions that lead to lasting behavioral changes.

By the end of each session, participants have immediate takeaways that help them become go-to Leaders.

By the end of the program, they will have built a strong peer network that supports their ongoing growth as leaders.

Success = Management x Leadership

There are two key questions at the end of every project, process, or task:

1. Was it successful?

2. Do you want that Manager on your next big, important activity?

The goal of our program is to help you answer “Yes!” to both questions.

The difference between success and failure is Leadership. Many organizations have strong managers yet still experience challenges with delivering on time and on budget, managing expectations, leading teams, and influencing stakeholders.

PL Coaches solves this problem by tapping into manager’s collectiveManagementwisdom and multiplying it by nurturing theirLeadershiptalents to achieve increasedSuccess.

Why “×” and not “+”? Because Leadership effectiveness is a force multiplier. A Leader is able to create immediate on-the-job improvements and long-term exponential improvements throughout their organization. When one manager grows into a Leader, the team members they interact with on a daily basis benefit from their leadership as well.

The Exponential Benefits of Having Both

During the PL Coaches Leadership program, our emphasis is on helping your managers integrate their Leadership competencies with their existing management skill sets.

Get in touch with PL Coaches to learn more about how to apply this equation at your organization and develop true Leaders.

About Us

PL Coaches founder Eric Walton believes that management competency is vital, but Leadership is the key component that drives Success and multiplies its impact across an organization.

Eric has delivered hundreds of Leadership sessions to help participants become the go-to Leaders for their companies.

Get to know our coaches, and contact us for more information on how we could help your team grow as Leaders. For larger engagements we have a virtually limitless number of fellow John Maxwell Team coaches to call on.

Eric Walton, Founder and Coach-Facilitator

As President of PL Coaches LLC, Eric Walton has been coaching leaders around the world for over 10 years from diverse industries such as: High Tech, Manufacturing, Banking, and others. These firms have been Fortune 500, $10-$250M midrange, and Startups and Early stage.

Mr. Walton is a founding partner of the John Maxwell Team and a certified leadership coach, trainer and speaker. Mr. Walton has written and developed three different leadership programs for the corporate market: Project Leadership, Process Leadership, and Team Leadership. There have been over 250 graduates of these programs now exhibiting increased leadership for their firms. Mr. Walton has coached voer 1,000 business owners in the networking marketing industry.

Prior to founding PL Coaches, Eric Walton spent more than 30 years as an accomplished leader and executive in the high-tech industry. During that time he was focused on raising up leaders and was directly involved in the advancement of hundreds of managers, directors, and vice-presidents, while training and coaching many more. During his rich leadership experience he held several COO positions, at influential mid-size tech firms, as well as being an executive at Fortune 500 firms. Eric’s leadership and management experience in multiple functional areas has afforded him a broad experience and insight into technology, finance, marketing, sales and operations, and has included management responsibility of more than 2000 people.

It is this experience that has proven invaluable in understanding leadership issues across a multitude of markets, industries and locations, managing teams to solve those problems, and raising up leaders to get it done.

Mr. Walton received a BS in Business Management from University at Albany and a MBA from the University of Arizona.

Following are testimonials (direct quotes) from customers who have seen results and behaviors change in their organization.

We are a professional services organization, which consults to clients for IT solution design development, and implementation. Therefore, our project management team had to wear many hats in which we were consultative to our clients on how technology solutions could be used to deliver on their business strategies and objectives. As such, the ability to build trusted and respectful relationships with our clients is imperative and the transformative learning experience provided by PL Coaches dramatically moved us forward in this regard. Among the teamwork, client relationship, and other intangible benefits we received, there were some more quantifiable benefits that resulted as well. We saw an uptick in our follow-on work, improved retention rates, and a 25 % improvement in client satisfaction scores. However, one unexpected improvement was that we had nearly a 100% lift in YoY revenue from change requests. We attribute the CR growth to our project management team being better equipped to have those tough conversations about scope and funding. We continue to experience a myriad of positive results from our experience with PL Coaches. Thank you!

I enjoyed the entire process - the program, the PL Coaches and my group. It was an opportunity to reflect on my strengths and weaknesses. It also helped and encouraged me to seek input from others. I built upon my network of resources who could assist me.

This was a fantastic program. I experienced growth and enlightenment in a number of leadership areas that will serve me well into the future, regardless of my role.

Unlike any training I've done before. Instructor was excellent and seemed to really care about helping us improve. Most of the content was really relevant and useful. I recommend more groups in our organization participate in this program so that we can have a chance to change the culture as a whole.

The opportunity to participate in this program and its successful completion (I never missed a session) was a high point on my journey to increased self- awareness, my desire to becoming a better leader and learning the difference between project management and leadership (they go hand in hand) and becoming comfortable with vulnerability. The entire program was excellent educational experience and the modules that resonated most with me were Credibility, Relationship, trust and Influence. I am aware of in my increased confidence in managing my projects and leading my teams. It’s a great feeling.

Our Facilitator did a great job of coaching us into identifying, embracing and representing the coach / Leader we each had within ourselves. The Facilitator was knowledgeable, personable and a great listener. The Facilitator was able to connect with and understand us of as individuals. Therefore, I was able to grow as an individual's as well as a community.

I liked it...a lot. I was skeptical of the "process" part of process leadership. But after working through several weeks, I realized the people are the key. And that spoke to my core belief. Facts, results, outcomes, and execution are very

At first I thought it would be a long time for the training, however the 16 to 18 weeks made it more valuable to truly grasp the course and understand my fellow team members thoughts and how they process their leadership vision. This course was a good investment of time and learning. Has helped me work on my listening skills as well as giving me better patience to take on all the information before jumping to a conclusion or making an assumption of a situation without truly asking good open ended questions to truly find out what the situation truly needs in making a decision to move forward.

Contact Us

Take the next step toward success by contacting PL Coaches. Our team can uncover the internal obstacles holding your managers back, design a custom Leadership program for them, and create long-lasting change at your organization.

Email: info@plcoaches.com

Download our information sheets to share with your stakeholders:

Program Overview

Leadership Competencies