The Coaching Process
Your In-The-Moment Concerns Come First
The decision to seek help to improve
yourself as a leader all begins with your concerns. What are the most
difficult people situations you have to deal with? What’s bothering
you about the way other people are acting? What’s on your mind
about conversations that wake you up at night? What’s keeping
you hunkered down in your office, staying away from certain people?
What do you wish you could do or say to turn the situation around?
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Our First Conversation
We start together by sorting out and clarifying your people skills and
concerns and then placing them within the context of your organization
and industry at this moment in time. We get to know your unique situation.
Why are you needing help now? We help you understand your current dilemma
from a fresh and refreshing perspective.
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What’s Next? A Personalized Action
Plan
We do a thorough assessment of you, the leader, in the context of your
work world. We use state-of-the-art evaluation instruments in combination
with skillful interviews. We might suggest conducting onsite observations
depending on the nature of your concerns. With reliable leadership reports
in combination with interview and observational data, we join with you
to develop a plan of action tailored to your pace and style of learning
and the urgency for change.
Action!
Now It’s Coaching Time!
The coaching intervention is based on the goals
and objectives you’ve identified in your personalized action plan.
During the intervention meetings, we work with you closely to help you
better understand the strengths and blind spots that comprise your leadership
competencies. We help you think through options and encourage you to
experiment with different behaviors and thought patterns. The executive
coaching work is done in as confidential a manner as you require.
Executive coaching is an individualized learning
program designed for time-pressed executives. We understand your constraints.
We also understand how desperately you need just-in-time help to handle
recurring situations with key people.
We are flexible and responsive. You can count
on us to “speak truth to power.” We understand that it is
lonely at the top and that few people are willing to speak their minds
honestly to you. Since our only concern is your well being, we will
be candid and direct with you, tactful and gutsy.
The coaching meetings will be challenging. We
will work hard together for the purpose of shedding light on difficult
interpersonal problems and help you figure out how to address these
situations well before your company hits the front page of the Wall
Street Journal for ethical violations. As your coach, we will keep the
big picture of your goals in our sights and help you remove obstacles
to being a more effective and versatile leader.
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