Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Why an executive coach may be engaged:
Listen and Learn
A Sample of Clients
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)
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
A Sample of Clients
- Wrigley
- Leo Burnett
- Abbott Labs
- Deloitte Consulting
- LaSalle Network
- 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