Executive Coaching Described
What will my Executive Coaching program do for you?
I suggest we discuss Executive Coaching for you if you’re in a senior role in your organisation and you want to do any of the following:
- Rapidly enhance your capacity to be a really good leader—You’ll be surprised at how quickly you can make some quite remarkable shifts. The executives that I’ve worked with frequently tell me that having me as their “silent partner” immediately helps them be much more aware of where they’re being effective and where they would benefit by changing their approach.
- Have your performance be as high as your potential—You’ll feel really proud of what you’re accomplishing as a result of your coaching program. I’ll be supporting you to set your sights high, and then I’ll be working with you to figure out what needs to happen so that you meet, or exceed, your new, higher expectations of yourself.
- Progress your team’s performance, and produce much better results all round—Imagine the impact you’ll have on your results when you and each of your team members are truly aligned and on track. Teams that work effectively usually have a huge impact on the effectiveness of the business.
- Develop your interpersonal communications, relationships and the amount of influence you have with others—Removing the blockages that stop you being as influential as you’d like to be, and then having your communications and your relationships to really work for you, will very likely pay off in all parts of your life.
- Feel confident that you can handle pretty much any performance problem that comes up—And when you very successfully resolve the performance problems around you, more of your energy, and more of your team members’ energies, can be put into achieving performance goals.
- Grow your emotional intelligence and confront difficulties skillfully and professionally—You know, your stress levels will significantly diminish when this happens! When you share your thinking with me, when we discuss your thought processes, you’ll become very aware of what you want to do, what you need to do, to create the results you’re after. Then I’ll help you create those results.
- Continually improve and re-invent yourself—You want to be sure that you’re producing exceptional results and that your career is very much on track. No problem; we’ll define what your current ideal, and your future ideal, looks like. We can then set about creating those ideals.
What happens in an Executive Coaching program?
We’ll design your executive coaching program specifically for you. You can be confident that you’ll reach your targeted outcomes. You can be assured of complete confidentiality. And we’ll work in a time efficient way that takes care of your particular logistical requirements.
- We’ll start with a discussion about your needs from coaching and we’ll determine exactly what results would make you exceedingly pleased that you’d made the decision to proceed.
- From there we’ll determine where you’re currently placed compared to your targeted outcomes. I’ll gather your views, perceptions, thoughts and feelings; have you complete a couple of assessments; we might decide to get some feedback from others; or perhaps we’ll decide that I’ll observe you on-the-job. Whatever approach we end up using will give us a clear view of where our efforts need to be placed in the upcoming months so that your outcomes are achieved.
- My recommendation is normally that we meet face-to-face, twice a month for your regular coaching sessions, either in your office or mine. If regional differences make that difficult, we’ll find a way around them without impacting the effectiveness of your program.
- In your coaching sessions we’ll focus on doing whatever needs to be done to close the gaps between what’s currently happening and what you want to happen. We’ll work with your real-life situations. We might leverage some of your existing strengths, add to your repertoire of behaviours, give you some more options by adding to your skill base in a particular area, or figure out a new perspective on something—we’ll do whatever is going to give you the results you’re after and have you feeling confident that your talents are being put to good use.
- We’ll also take advantage of occasional between-session telephone conversations or emails. You’ll notice that I’m responsive and attend to your needs in a timely fashion. (Because I aim to be responsive, I work with only a small number of coachees at any point in time, usually around 12.)
- You’ll be provided with your own personalized Executive Coaching Resource Centre. Your customized, password protected web site will give you immediate and convenient 24x7 access, via the Internet, to a valuable library of resource documents and materials that will support you on your coaching journey.
- Organisational sponsorship is required to support a monthly retainer and a one-off fee to cover time and costs involved in the initial diagnosis.
Now that you know more about what my executive coaching program will do for you, and what happens in an executive coaching program, you can either look at some Executive Coaching Case Studies that describe the results from some of my past programs—or go directly to the Contact Carolyn page and initiate a conversation with me about your needs and how they could be met.