EXECUTIVE COACHING
Your Journey to Personal Transformation…
Executive Coaching…What is it?
Helping leaders get unstuck from their dilemmas and assisting them to transfer their learning into results.
A facilitative, one-to-one, mutually designed relationship in which it is the job of the coach to facilitate what is most important to the client and to help the client gain clarity around their most important issues and challenges.
Quick Points: Transformation is the focus; coaching is the vehicle being used.
- Develops fast-trackers and high performing leaders. Often executives need an objective, neutral sounding board to discuss challenges, opportunities and their perspective.
- Coaching allows the executives to step away from their day-to-day routine and effectively strategize on how they can reach beyond where they are currently.
- Coaching is an intense process and rigorous, challenging the client to take an honest self-assessment with high-committed action planning and execution. It is about empowering an executive to create a future that they truly desire based on unearthing what they passionately care about.
- Coaching is the best way to accelerate development as a leader, but it also takes a significant investment of time plus money.
The Benefits:
The benefits of executive coaching within an organization have been studied and these are the results:
| Improvements in: | |
| Productivity …………………………………………. | 53% of executives |
| Quality ……………………………………………….. | 48% |
| Organizational strength ……………………………. | 48% |
| Customer service ……………………………………. | 39% |
| Bottom-line profitability ……………………………. | 22% |
Among the benefits to executives who received coaching were:
| Improved: | |
| Working relationships with direct reports .…………………… | 77% |
| Working relationships with immediate supervisors ………… | 71% |
| Teamwork ………………………………………………………… | 67% |
| Working relationships with peers ……………………………… | 63% |
| Job Satisfaction …………………………………………………… | 61% |
| Conflict reduction ……………………………………………..… | 52% |
| Organizational commitment ……………………………………. | 44% |
What to Expect from your coaching experience:
- Starts with a three hour, in-person meeting between the Executive and the Executive Coach to set expectations, review past feedback and together set parameters for coaching agreement, which the executive usually shares with his/her stakeholders to obtain input.
- A series of assessments, including a 360 report with key stakeholders and colleagues to help the executive assess reality and determine objectives for the coaching plan.
- Once data collected, Executive Coach meets with executive to analyze the results, usually an intensive feedback session utilizing the Vision to Reality model for clarity and impact; a challenging executive development plan is created.
- Two – 1-1/2 hr. meetings per month coaching sessions that addresses progress made (or not made), develop new strategies or actions with commitments for ensuing weeks.
- Shadow coaching of executive at work, in meetings, making presentations.
- Coaching continues with the executive so that the Vision to Reality development plan has been completely implemented and executive has improved or enhanced the targeted competencies.
- Minimum of 6-month executive coaching contract in order to invest the time and energy necessary to significantly increase effectiveness.
