Executive Coaching and Leadership Development

Why an executive coach may be engaged:

• 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
• Development of emotional intelligence (EQ)  

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.

Assessments

• 360 degree feedback, written and /or interview
• Individual assessments
• Significant stakeholders within the organization have opportunity to provide input.

Co-creation and Implementation of a Plan

• 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

Follow up

• Coach follows up at agreed upon intervals

• Wrigley
• Leo Burnett
• Abbott Labs
• Deloitte Consulting
• Methodist Youth Services
• Gusto Packaging
• Magellan Behavioral Health
• Datamars
• Melvin Securities

• Executive Team Alignment
• Appreciative Inquiry Initiatives
• Large scale coaching and development programs delivered by an experienced team of coach/consultants
• Team Building