Services

Superb Coaching Services for Business Leaders

Bring yourself, your team, and your organization to unexpected heights.

Leading organizations is challenging and even accomplished leaders encounter roadblocks. When complexity, conflict, misalignment, and sub-optimal performance threaten to derail your business objectives, we help you form solutions to put you back on track.

Patonce Partners, LLC serves as a trusted and confidential advisor, coach, and facilitator, equipping executives with the right tools and skills to unleash your best thinking and create a clear path forward. Our approach combines extensive experience as an executive, a counselor, and a mediator with a respected toolkit of proven diagnostics, methodologies, and processes. We help you identify gaps in your thinking, filter distractions and "background noise," enable fresh insights, assess risk, make thoughtful, informed decisions, rally others, and confidently drive results.

Personal Executive Coaching

The reality is it’s all about credibility. As an executive or emerging leader, you are either demonstrating it, developing it, or losing it. As your executive coach, we confidentially work with you to create personalized individual development programs that reinforce your strengths, identify opportunities for growth, and enhance the skills needed for further success in your current role and ongoing career.

We Help You:

Communicate powerfully and effectively
Build influence in and across organizations
Improve your leadership presence and personal brand
Manage time and priorities to overcome and overwhelm
Engage others and foster collaboration
Manage up in your organization
Resolve conflict
Think comprehensively about strategic issues
Shift limiting beliefs impacting personal performance

We Help You:

Design and execute a people strategy
Increase employee engagement
Manage mergers and acquisitions
Navigate large-scale change
Shift organization culture
Accelerate leader onboarding

Organizational Counsel

Leading organization-wide change is hard. As a trusted and knowledgeable advisor, we help you prepare for, navigate, confidently lean into, and overcome the challenges that threaten your success.

Leadership Team Development

Whether it’s your executive team that can’t land on a decision or your best project team that’s stuck, it’s time to get your people aligned, collaborating, and reaching their full potential. We are particularly successful in accelerating the professional growth of high potential emerging executives.

We Help You:

Resolve conflict
Build accountability
Increase awareness of self and others
Build leadership capabilities
Think strategically
Grow trust and influence

Talent Management Advisory

Rev up your talent management engine by equipping yourself with a deeper understanding of new candidates and stacking your talent bench with future leaders. As a talent management advisor, we provide guidance through all of the processes that touch your employees—from hiring and onboarding to employee retention and satisfaction.

We Help You:

Design effective role and position descriptions, duties, and accountabilities
Perform in-depth assessments of candidates with validated tools and expert behavior-based interviews
Conduct candidate diagnostics including behavioral intelligence, motivations and engagement, emotional intelligence, and sales skills
Create a talent and leader pipeline with a powerful high-impact talent mapping process
Create detailed employee development programs
Develop effective succession plans so your organization is prepared for planned and unplanned turnover of key roles

Business Coaching

Specifically for the Small Business Owner

As a small business owner, you followed your dream, took risks, and built something to serve your customers, clients, colleagues, and communities. Now that your business is up-and-running, how do you maximize your time allowing you to follow your passion and not get caught up in the more mundane work of day-to-day administration? Gain control of the data and critical performance information that drives your business success.

We Help You:

Define your ultimate aspirations and build a plan to achieve them
Develop a clear strategy to grow and dominate your market
Establish and execute strategies to increase your business’ worth
Leverage the opportunities that allow your business to run effectively and efficiently without you in the details, freeing you to concentrate on growth
Evaluate and prepare for the transfer of ownership when the time is right

Your organization and people are unique.

We work with you to design and implement customized approaches for your specific needs instead of applying an off-the-shelf generic product.
Let’s talk about what we can accomplish together.

Typical Problems We Solve

I have a team member who is brilliant technically, but others hate working with due to terrible people skills. How do I address an employee that is too valuable to let go but too risky to keep?
We’re a small team where everyone wears several hats. We can’t afford to increase staff, but if someone leaves, we’re going to be in a tough situation. How do I create an effective succession plan to minimize the impact of turnover in key positions?
Even though we only hire candidates with good credentials, and whom hiring managers recommend, we still have more turnover than we should. How do I increase my confidence that we’re placing the best talent in the roles that matter the most in my organization?

I know I’ve been avoiding some “hard conversations." How do I effectively conduct them for the best possible outcome?
We have good people who know how to do their jobs. How do I get to take it to the next level and behave like owners?
I hold a team meeting to discuss a significant issue. In the end, it’s clear to me how we are to proceed. Then I hear privately that other team members seemed to hear something different. How do I ensure everyone is on the same page?
I've launched a successful business but find myself too stuck in the operational details to focus on growth. How do I get untangled from the "small stuff" so I can focus on the "big stuff"?

Sound Familiar?

Let's work together to create the best solutions for your most complex people problems.