• Organizational and macro-strategy changes directly affecting key executives such as acquisitions, mergers, corporate restructuring, and cultural transformation initiatives. These changes are often highly stressful and can be professionally and personally wrenching. The Banyan Way Coach helps the Executive to understand these changes. He guides the Executive through what may be a necessary attitudinal shift so that, ultimately, the Executive not only embraces but becomes an advocate for these changes.

• Major strategic and operational issues such as declining sales and market shares, high employee turnover, increasing operating costs, poor productivity, increasing customer complaints, and so on. Most of these issues may be addressed by looking at how the Executive has responded to these challenges, the leadership and management skills as well as tools that he has employed (or failed to employ).

• Specific non-productive behavior and other issues that may be hampering the effectiveness of an otherwise strong or promising Executive. Much of these issues stem from executives simply being unaware of the power of skilled relationship management or having no access to training that could empower them. Also, these issues could result from stress-inducing factors such as promotion from a largely technical to a management position, a new assignment, a foreign posting, new reporting hierarchies, and others.