Vienna, Virginia · Coaching nationwide, in person or virtual
Coaching
Arnold Sanow has worked as a business strategist, personal development coach and professional speaker for more than twenty years, and has mentored hundreds of clients one to one. Coaching here is not a script. It is a working relationship, built to fit the person and the problem in front of it, from a single struggling manager to a whole leadership team.
How it works
You work as a team, not through a curriculum
Arnold starts by identifying the real challenges, concerns, strengths and weaknesses in front of him, whether that is one executive, one team or one specific behavior that keeps showing up at the wrong moment. From there he and the client build the skills together. Nothing below is delivered off a shelf, and every one of these can run virtually or in person.
One to one
Executive and Corporate Coaching
For managers, leaders, executives and employees who need a sounding board that will also push back. Sessions are built around whichever of the areas below is actually the problem, not a fixed program every client gets the same way.
Areas covered
- Conflict management
- Executive communication
- People skills
- Emotional intelligence
- Presentation skills
- Personal presence and confidence
- Goal setting
- Leadership development
- Management development
- Strategic planning
- Stress management
- Sustaining growth
- Decision making
- Handling difficult people
- Meeting sales goals
- Clarifying priorities
- Acting as a sounding board
One to one
Personal Growth and Life Coaching
For confidence, direction, balance and peace of mind, and for breaking the self defeating behaviors that quietly cap a career or a working relationship. Arnold also works specifically with clients on overcoming speaker's anxiety and building a personal presence that holds up under pressure, drawn from the same material he teaches on stage.
Groups
Group and Team Coaching
Facilitation for teams, boards of directors, senior management and entrepreneurs who need an outside voice in the room. Arnold has facilitated sessions for groups ranging from a single department to a full board, working through the same real challenges, concerns, strengths and weaknesses approach he uses one to one.
The alternative to letting someone go
Personal Performance Plan, also called the Corrective Action Plan
Built for the manager who is technically strong but cannot connect with people, the one whose team is quietly frustrated and whose numbers still look fine, right up until they do not. Instead of a single training day or a written warning, this is a four month intensive one to one program built around that specific person.
- Step 1
The visit
Arnold comes to the client's location and meets the person who is being coached in person, not over a video call as a first impression. He also meets everyone who works for and with that person, so the plan is built on more than one point of view.
- Step 2
The plan
From those conversations he writes a corrective action plan specific to that manager and that workplace. It names the behaviors that are actually costing the person their standing with peers and direct reports, and what changing them would look like.
- Step 3
Four months of check ins
Weekly phone or written check ins hold the plan to a schedule instead of letting it drift, the way a single training day or a one page memo never can.
- Step 4
Unlimited access
For the full four months the person being coached can reach Arnold as often as they need to, not on a fixed number of booked sessions.
The point of the whole program is stated plainly, and it is Arnold's own framing: this is the alternative to letting a valuable employee go. A four month structured plan costs less than replacing and retraining someone who already knows the job, if the actual problem is how they treat the people around them rather than the work itself.
For competitive bids
Oral Proposal Coaching
For teams preparing to defend a proposal in person against a live evaluation panel. Arnold works through the talking points and slides, runs practice rounds, and uses videotape and critique the same way he does in his presentation skills training, so the team walks in having already heard the honest version of how they come across. This includes personal presence and rapport work, since a technically correct answer delivered badly can still lose the bid.
From coaching clients
Notes from people he has coached
“Arnold, your advice really works! Our business was doing OK, but Arnold helped us go to the next level. He literally gave us the tools we needed and showed us how to adapt and apply them to get the kind of results we wanted. Not only that, he is a joy to work with.”
“Thanks for all your help. It has made a HUGE difference and will affect what I do for the rest of my career”
“Thank you for being a great coach in providing me the tools, techniques and guidance to assist me in my medical practice and working with me to reach my 'outside' objectives and passions”
Common questions
What people ask before they start coaching
Start a conversation
Tell him who needs the help, and why
Vienna, Virginia, booking nationwide, in person or virtual. Coaching runs one to one or with a group, in person or virtually, and every plan is built around the person or team in front of it. See the full list of programs or read more about Arnold.