LEADERS IN EXECUTIVE COACHING
Executive Coaching
What is executive coaching?
An executive coach acts as a sounding board; challenges thinking; stimulates creativity; provides tools and techniques for dealing with situations; gives encouragement and builds confidence. The coach has unconditional positive regard for the client, has no agenda other than the client's and is always on the client's side. This, together with good personal chemistry, which is essential, builds a working partnership based on trust.
As a result of the coaching experience, clients develop their potential and apply it productively in the workplace. The more they practice their new skills, the better they get. Experience shows that clients approach bigger challenges with more confidence and skill and achieve better results for their organisations and for themselves.
Because coaching is an investment in the client's own capability, it pays back year after year after year.
Our approach to coaching programs
Our coaching is geared to the needs of leaders, typically directors and senior executives of private and public sector organisations, partners in professional services firms and senior officials in public bodies and government.
Following a successful ‘chemistry' meeting, clients commit to work with us for an initial period, usually six or twelve months. This can be shorter when the client has an urgent, focused need. Most of our coaching is conducted face-to-face, supplemented by phone calls and emails as required. One of our unique differentiators is that there is no limit to the frequency or length of meetings between the coach and their client. We understand that busy executives do not always work to monthly schedules calls.
We agree coaching objectives with our clients at an early stage in each assignment. In many cases, the client's organisation contributes to an initial briefing.
Clients' agendas typically include how to develop a constructive leadership style; meet short term goals; achieve long term aspirations; rise to daily challenges; generate tomorrow's strategic opportunity; manage their time in and out of work; perform their current job more effectively; and prepare for their next role. Achievement is reviewed periodically throughout the assignment.
Every client has different needs - and we tailor our programs accordingly. Sometimes we recommend that a client gets additional data to inform the coaching program, such as feedback from colleagues or psychometric profiles. Our clients usually ask us to obtain this information on their behalf.
Discussions between the client and the coach are entirely confidential. When appropriate we recommend that a client shares some aspects of what they have worked on with their managers or colleagues, but that is entirely the client's choice - their data is totally secure.