Executive Coaching

Why Coaching?

Coaching helps senior leaders improve the hard-to-reach areas of their leadership that workshops or retreats don’t touch. A coaching engagement matches the executive with an ICF certified coach uniquely suited to support them. Together, they embark on a development journey that lets the executive gather objective feedback, reflect on critical leadership issues, apply their learnings in experiments between sessions, then debrief those experiments, creating a virtuous learning cycle to accelerate their growth.

Focal points for a coaching journey vary widely but might include:

  • navigating transitions into new roles (especially escalating into senior leadership roles, c-suite roles, and board membership)

  • shifting maladaptive behavior patterns

  • leading with more agility, improvisation, and adaptability

  • becoming bolder, more visionary, and charismatic

  • enhancing assertiveness and command

Every coaching engagement tailors to the individual and offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take stock of how they live and lead and to create the needed change the business - and this moment - demands..

Standard Coaching Process

Chemistry

Ahead of any potential engagement, the executive will meet for 1hr (virtually) with any potential coach for a chemistry match conversation to ensure a fit between the coach’s style and expertise and the executive’s aspirations.

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Diagnostics

In addition to administering any quantitative assessments that might be indicated, the coach works with the executive to select up to 12 stakeholders for 360-degree interviews. The interviews elicit themes about the current state of the executive’s leadership and surfaces potential blind-spots and untapped potential that may be the focus of coaching.

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Goals

The coach works with the executive to debrief the 360 and any other diagnostics and identify focus areas for the coaching and then operationalize those areas into specific SMART goals that become developmental targets. Accountability structures are created to track development and impact over the journey..

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Sessions

Unless otherwise arranged, coach and executive meet biweekly for 60-90’ to explore the leadership themes selected, cultivate insight on them, and apply that insight to action with specific experiments for the executive to try or tools/resources for them to use in the field period between sessions.

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Debrief

At the end of the 6-month period, coach and executive will debrief the journey ( with the executive’s n+1, if desired) to identify progress made, assess personal and organizational impact, and then identify best next steps for the executive’s continued growth.

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