What is Executive Coaching?
Executive and leadership coaches have a lot of similarities with sports or athletic coaches. Imagine that you are an athlete who is finding it hard to win and get ahead. You probably struggle to understand what is keeping you from winning. You question whether it is lack of training, perhaps it is an incorrect diet or maybe you need more strength training. How could you identify what the issue really is? You would probably turn to a coach, someone who is an expert in your sport, someone who can help you achieve your objectives and win.
As a workplace professional, you may struggle from time to time without knowing what to do about it. You career may have stalled and you may not find the right way to get ahead. Have you considered a coach who can be your partner? Someone who can observe you in action and help you identify your gaps? Someone who can help you create a plan to improve your performance? I can help you do all those things. My coaching philosophy parallels the sports analogy. My approach will help you focus on the future ahead, identify any gaps you might have, create a plan to close those gaps, promote your achievements and find ways to help you realize your career objectives.
Engagement Options
- Career Planning begins with a conversation about your future, your life goals, your long-term plan and your values, motivators and preferences. From there, I will help you craft a career plan that aligns to your long-term plan. Once we identify the career plan, we will begin to work on the turn-by-turn directions which result in a series of roles and jobs that lead to the overall career goal. We will consider all facets of career ambition such as location, size, travel, scope, breath and type of role. We will set milestones together so we understand what success looks like.
- Development Planning is the next logical step in the process. Once we move beyond laying out the career plan, we need to identify any gaps in experience or competencies that we need to close. I will use some of the industry's best tools and techniques to help identify these gaps. The only way to close the gaps that prevent you from moving forward in your career is to take them head-on. I will help you construct a robust development plan that is centered around the S-M-A-R-T principle (Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time Bound) and leverages the 70-20-10 learning pyramid (70% of the actions on the job, 20% through others and 10% through formal learning). This proven method will help us make progress on development without extending your workday. We will measure these throughout the engagement to make sure we are achieving the desired progress.
- Networking & Self-Promotion is one of the hardest things for leaders to do. Most people expect that their hard work and results will be enough to see them through their career. The sad news is that networking and self-promotion are needed to get ahead. I will help you structure a plan that will help you identify the people you need to get to know better and I will help you structure the messaging that will set you apart from others.
- Onboarding & Transitions to a new role will happen once success starts to settle in. It's important to have a transition plan when taking on new roles. I will help you put together such a plan so you can onboard and transition to the new role successfully. The plan is designed to help you get up to speed quickly, determine the proper organizational structure, put a business management system in place, buyild relationships with stakeholders, avoid mistakes, identify any blind spots you might have and to start delivering results right away. We will use a series of tried and proven techniques that I have used many times during my career. According to the Center for Creative Leadership, nearly 40 percent of new executives fail within their first 18 months. I will make sure you are not part of that statistic.
- Crisis Management - Leading through a crisis requires special skills and it helps have someone by your side with experience. I have faced more than my fair share of crisis throughout my career. I have developed a crisis management plan based on world events like 9-11 to the financial crisis of 2008 to the multitude of business and economic fluctuations. I will help you understand the situation, get ahead of the communication curve, create business management system that will help bring calm to your team and to help you understand manage through the human emotion that embodies a crisis.
- Shadow Coaching - We learn when people observe us in action and provide us with the feedback we need to develop. Shadow coaching is a great opportunity for you to hone your skills in whatever area you have chosen to work on. Shadow coaching includes observation and feedback and it's accentuated by a debrief process to provide recommendations and an action plan.
- Mentoring is often associated with executive coaching. I can help you work through your significan business issues and help you navigate through delicate situations with your team, peers or superiors. Together we can put together that difficult presentation, rehearse it to hone your presentation skills and help build your confidence during these difficult situations.
Results!
People say that to improve something you need to measure it. I believe in the same philosophy. My coaching approach helps people like you achieve measurable and sustainable improvements in performance during the first six months of the coaching relationship.
Experience
My senior corporate executive experience, combined with my coaching experience provide you with some options to help you achieve your long-term objectives.
Next Steps
Let’s schedule some time to discuss and understand your needs and to tailor an engagement that will help you and your organization become more effective.