“Executive Coaching – a vague and much overused phrase that people use to cover a range of activities all the way from mentoring CEOs working on billion dollar mergers down to giving bad advice about how to smile correctly when standing at the water cooler” - Craig Boddington, CEO, The Congruency Group.

We work with the key board members of the biggest, fastest and most complex companies in the world. Our experience shows that these individuals carry the ultimate responsibility for driving their corporations forward yet have the least access to support and positive input.

To encourage such people to break through current obstacles and achieve even higher levels of personal and corporate performance takes a bit more than just chatting with somebody who is a good communicator and is well versed in cognitive methodologies. It takes the trust and security of knowing that the coach has a common understanding of the challenges because they have been there too! They speak YOUR language as well as knowing how to inspire you to higher levels of achievement and satisfaction.

Over twenty five years of board room experience the principals of The Congruency Group have cut their teeth doing real business as well as working on ‘people issues’. We have developed a unique approach blending the best of strategic, operational and personal/cognitive techniques to propel clients to the next level. Our approaches are always tailored to the needs of the individual yet grounded on a firm understanding of what works. Our sole intention is to identify the results required and work with you on getting them rather than on having ‘feel good’ discussions. Our interventions are often challenging and uncompromising. After all, like you, we know that if you get the best out of yourself and the best for your company then the strong likelihood.

The principals of the Congruency Group have spent major parts of their career working at the top table of many Fortune 100 companies. Our background in doing big business uniquely qualifies us for being able to work with those doing the same whether it be on developing superior leadership mindset, expanding strategic perspective or on working through complex decisions.

Our unique approaches combine strategic facilitation and congruency methods to produce world-class achievable and balanced vision, mission, values and strategy definitions – ones in which the executive team has total belief and is aligned for effective implementation. We also are well versed in the necessary quantitative methodologies in decision analysis and large-scale strategy project support to combine the high– and low-level parts of the whole of major strategic initiatives. This has been strongly evidenced, over the years, by our ability to provide strong support and personal direction for key leaders during specific large mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

Our principals and team have a track record in providing leadership and personal development input to some of the most senior business leaders in the world. Much of this work leverages significant and powerful breakthroughs in leadership programming techniques in the areas of Neurological Repatterning and Cognitive Profiling. Combining this with a strong background in related commercial issues such as corporate governance gives you twice the opportunity to transform the personal effectiveness of every key individual in the organization. In some cases, this may mean breaking through problem issues and, in others, taking excellent leadership into the area of mastery.

Most people accept the simple principle that if they felt better about what they do they would almost certainly achieve better results. In a group environment the effect can be even more profound, especially if the process addresses directly real challenges and issues rather than just being a satisfying experience. Such a transformation can be often be seen with personnel involved at the coalface of operations. Yet the potential competitive leverage to be obtained by applying the same approaches at board level, the very fulcrum of value creation, is rarely captured. In this area we further develop the individual personal methods (see ‘Trusted Advice’) to make the whole very much more than the sum of the parts.

A large proportion of the achievement of the overall strategic mission, both in the private and public sectors, hinges around the excellent delivery of just a small number of pivotal results. Our methods allow us to focus on what really makes the difference, why it is not working as intended and what to do to fix it. This may lead into change work with key processes and/or individuals. In the cases of personal exit, we can also provide personal development support as a part of the next steps for the individual concerned.

Whether our team is working with key individuals or groups, our focus is always on identifying the results the client wants and then structuring approaches to achieve them. From the fastest growing technology companies to some of the most mature and diversified global corporations, the Congruency Group methodologies have created proven shareholder value. They have been developed over decades to break through obstacles that prevent inspired strategies from delivering their promise at the implementation stage.

It has been our experience that in most cases the obstacles are experienced at a personal level yet have significant organizational impact. Yet, with the right support and intervention, many of the limiting beliefs and ineffectual personal strategies can be dealt with very quickly and permanently, yielding a significant competitive advantage.

Probably one of the most fertile areas for breaking through boundaries and significantly improving the bottom line is business development and more specifically sales. As companies are ever-increasingly subjected to the uncertainties of market and economic conditions, the pressure to deliver sales results increases, and so personal barriers to success are experienced more deeply.

The Congruency Group frequently works with key rain-makers and hunter-gatherers within client organizations to destroy the obstacles to sales success and to migrate high-performance into excellent performance. Our advanced interventions are based on the very latest neurological and cognitive methods. As importantly, they are also based on the significant personal front-line sales experience of our team members within some of the biggest and most successful international corporations.

Strategic decision making and execution are two of the three legs of the corporate challenge facing the modern executive team. The third, and as important, component is the area of negotiation. Whether this is in the strict deal-making sense or the softer ways in which we inter-work with suppliers, clients, partners and staff, the way that we achieve agreement with people is arguably the most effective way of dramatically changing the results we get. And, yet, it is an area where too often we rely on gut-instinct when we should be applying the rigour of skill and process as we do in the other areas of our organization.

Having completed over $100 billion of deals we feel our unique approaches and insights work! We can join the client deal team or work behind the scenes developing individual approaches, including personal preparation. For larger clients we design and deliver custom training and capability transfer programmes.

The Congruency Group works at the very highest level of some of the most successful businesses and organizations in the world. We focus on working with key individuals and executive groups in delivering personal transformation and corporate strategy to achieve superior results.

From time to time, we share the very latest in the cutting-edge methods, we have developed, with key leaders of growing and aspiring companies in larger public training sessions and events. We have seen amazing quantum leaps in performance and results over the years and it is our intention to see these approaches used more widely especially in difficult economic times. We have found that many of the key questions that can drive executives and their companies to radically higher levels of performance are mostly the same irrespective of industry and stage of organizational development. Our larger courses and events are our opportunity to make a bigger difference.

We have also noticed, especially with small and medium sized companies and their executives, that there is a growing hunger for real meat! There are classroom offerings in the market that give good business lectures yet leave you ill-equipped personally to do anything with them. Conversely, you could spend a lot of money on ‘personal development' from those that have never run anything except a personal development training business! Consequently, you become temporarily motivated with self-belief and confidence only to find that your previous skillset prevents you from applying your new attitudes. "Too much information and you burn up. Too much psychology and you blow up! "What is needed, of course, is a balanced and professional mix of both.

All the methods and trainings used by the Congruency Group are based on the lifetime career of Craig Boddington one of the most respected executive coaches and turnaround specialists to Fortune 100 companies around. Moreover, he has actually been personally responsible for really running businesses and programmes worth billions of dollars. In short, they combine the very best in mindset and skillset. You should expect no less if you are looking to play a bigger game and achieve the results of which you always dared to dream.

So, our trainings (including workshops and weekend retreats) address two fundamental questions "What can I change about the way I think and act in order to get excellent results?" AND "What do I have to know and do differently to take those results to the highest possible levels?" To achieve this, we use an exciting layered mix of business content, accelerated learning, business simulations, high-assimilation methods and REAL techniques from REAL business professionals.

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