Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Why you might engage us to provide executive coaching for you or your organization:
- Enhanced executive presence
- Becoming a more influential leader and have greater impact
- Building self-awareness
- Development of high-potential leaders
- On-boarding of new leaders
- Improvement of underperforming executives
- Managing relationships
- Building a stronger, more productive team
- Thinking outside the box
- Leadership effectiveness
- Improving organizational skills
- Development of emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Creating a psychologically healthy workplace
The Coaching Process
Listen and Learn
- Three-way partnership between coach, leader and the organization
- Coach listens to the leader to identify strengths; challenges; who and what impacts on the leader.
- Coach listens to all the stakeholders – bosses, direct reports, peers, board of directors, etc.
- Coach asks powerful questions to learn more and stimulate thinking and ideas for the leader.
- Coach outlines boundaries of confidentiality and allows a trusting relationship to flourish.
- 360 degree feedback, written and /or interview
- Individual assessments
- Significant stakeholders within the organization have opportunity to provide input.
- Plan includes strategies to meet the challenges
- Identifies ways to utilize the leader's strengths and compensate for weaknesses
- Identify ways to measure progress toward goals
- Plan is shared with appropriate stakeholders
- Examples of issues addressed:
- Managing up in a more self aware manner
- Building a stronger, more productive team
- Increasing emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Creating a more psychologically healthy workplace
- Coach follows up at agreed upon intervals