Executive Coaching, Mentoring,
& Career Counseling

(Private and Corporate)

		Career planning advice, career training, executive development, career choice, job searches, effective leadership skill and management training, and career training, dealing with office politics, working effectively with various personalities in the business world, understanding delegation, and interviewing techniques and resume customization.

CMI is in a very unique position to provide coaching, mentoring, and career counseling, involving career assessment, career development, job and career change, and job and career searches. (Click here to get to Why Choose CMI page)

CMI has worked with business owners and built management teams in hundreds of companies over the past 11 years. CMI understands what owners want, how they think, and has played an active part in hiring over 500 employees for clients over that period.

CMI has built management teams by integrating the right person into the existing culture of his clients. CMI has the unique status of working directly with these existing cultures, and understanding who would be the best fit for those specific instances. Technical skills are often not the determining factor. The best choices frequently blend that with a strong personal fit to the existing culture.

In addition, Dennis W. Hoppe, the Principal of CMI, has spent over 15 years learning from, and working with, "The Guru of Coaching", D. A. Benton.

		This dynamic combination of working directly with owners and their managers and influencing their hires for over 11 years, and the unique relation with Ms. Benton, provide a compelling reason to use CMI as your source of moving forward in your career, and moving your managers and your employees forward in theirs.

Office politics, owner's and manager's distinct and unique personalities, and existing personalities, always play a major role in determining any employee's attitude, their ability to grow within that specific company, and their ability to function within a specific structure, organization, or group.

Careers have been made and broke by the employee's ability (or inability) to deal with these forces. Winners learn how to play the game, as it exists, in their field of choice. Losers fight endless battles to change systems that can not be changed. They almost always lose and yet do not understand why. Some realize it, while others go through a whole career not understanding it, being unhappy, dissatisfied, and unfulfilled.

		The object of a coach or mentor is to allow the employee (at any level) to understand the influence that all of these forces play upon them, what adjustments would help their career path and personal growth, how to deal with "office politics" and use it to their advantage, how to emphasize and expand their strengths, put them in a position to maximize the utilization of those skills that create a win-win situation for the employee and the company, and make them more noticeable to managers and peers, and how to compensate for their weaknesses or shortcomings, and to work on improving them. A coach and mentor is also there for you when these influences overwhelm you, and to help prevent you from making inappropriate, impulsive reactions to relatively minor issues that could tarnish your career for long periods. A good coach can stop you before you make that fatal mistake, one that might take forever to put behind you. The mentor can stop you from impulsive actions, make you think your actions through, and understand when verbal actions can benefit you, and more importantly, how much they may hurt you. A coach can also teach you when to present your comments in writing (letter, e-mail, or even voice-mail), and why, generally leaving no record is in your best interests. All these and more are the little things that separate business winners from losers. Often no one other than a coach/mentor will care enough to comment on potentially inappropriate actions before or after the case. With the legalities that scare off managers and owners from "telling it like it is", many employees often go through entire careers not realizing and wondering what is holding them back, when all technical arrows are pointing forward. Again, this is where an effective and caring coach/mentor can help you.

Having had the benefit of a coach and mentor for over 15 years, and the benefit of a highly respected, nationally recognized mentor, who works with owners of Fortune 100 companies, I understand the tremendous benefit, and almost the necessity in today's competitive environment, of having help along the path to success (if that is the ultimate goal), to assure that I get there, and that I do not waste essential time and stagnate or postpone my career growth due to lack of understanding of either corporate or interpersonal skills (mine or others).

Contact CMI now to get your career moving in the right direction again.