Executive Coaching
Coaching is a mutual learning partnership designed to help individuals unfold their innate capabilities and creativity to address concerns and aspirations that are important to them.
The foundation of our coaching model is:
- Trust: creation of a confidential, effective, respectful relationship
- Goals: clarity and full focus on fulfilling well defined goals
- Learning: as both the process and key outcome of the coaching
- Accountability: to translate learning into aspired outcomes
We use the four integrative leadership dimensions as a frame to create sustainable mindset and behavioral shifts for effectiveness that lasts beyond the coaching work.
- Expanded mindsets for greater self awareness, adaptability and self management
- Increased emotional intelligence and engagement skills to build more effective relationships
- Development of structures and habits to anchor and support behavioral change over time
- Enhanced execution skills to achieve goals and drive business results
The day to day experience and concerns of our clients provides the forum for learning. The starting point is to identify and clarify the gap between clients’ current reality and aspirations or full potential. This is the “creative tension” that provides the energy for the coaching. Progress comes from developing insights that are translated into new approaches and behaviors. Often this requires identifying and dissolving habitual, obsolete patterns of thought and engagement that are no longer useful. Reflective learning of the impact of shifting from old to new mindsets and behaviors is a skill we support clients to develop to accelerate learning.
We design custom coaching programs that combine confidential in person or telephone conversations supported by one or more of the following:
- Qualitative feedback from interviews with seniors, peers and other stake holders
- Feedback from a 360 leader assessment tool such as The Leadership Circle
- Information from personality/preferences/styles assessment tools including MBTI, DiSC, Insights, FIRO-B and others
- Writing of a Development Plan that identifies specific learning goals and anchors insights from qualitative and assessment tool feedback
- Participation in a cohort group of colleagues for group learning
- Experiential learning events and practices
Our standard Integrative Coaching Program includes 360 assessment feedback through The Leadership Circle, the writing of a development plan and 6 months of coaching. Our clients find that this program enables them to improve their awareness, engagement and execution and leads to improved results in their relationships and accomplishments.