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Executive Coaching Process

Executive coaching is a management development strategy using a personal trainer to develop key strategic leadership capabilities and to focus the development process.

• Interviews should be (8-10) with direct reports, HR and others as agreed.
• (2) 90-minute assessment sessions with client
• Use one or more assessment instruments
• Benchmarks
• Birkman
• Career Architect
• Myers-Briggs
• Profilor
• Learning Agility
• Leadership Values Sort
• EESV Personal Assessment Tool (P.A.T.)

• Detailed written summary of feedback interview data
• Consultant will interpret and give feedback to client from formal assessment and interviews
• Final session with client to review development plan (1 session)

• 6 - 8 90 minute sessions (face-to-face, phone, videoconferencing, etc.) over a 6 to 12 month period
• "Phone coaching" as appropriate, in between sessions
• "Shadowing" and/or videotaping of client
• Use of Behavioral Contracts and assignments between sessions
• Final meeting with client
• Original Harvard Business Review articles and other resources given to clients

• On going communication with HR personnel if appropriate
• Evaluation of coaching progress relative to business goals

• One follow-up meeting scheduled 4-8 weeks after completion of coaching process
• Development of detailed "maintenance" plan to sustain progress

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Our approach involves three steps in the learning process:

• Sharpening and polishing strategic presentation skills
• Delegating with reduced confusion
• Micro-management

Our coaching typically includes a number of phases in the process, including:

• Assessing the client's behavior
• Coaching the client and/or other employees in private sessions
• Rehearsing targeted behaviors with coach
• Practicing targeted behaviors on the job
• Maintaining continual contact with organizational support persons and client's manager
• Following an established plan to monitor client's progress related to performance goals

Our coaching focuses on a number of different development areas:

• Improving leadership skills
• Establishing executive presence
• Sharpening political influence skills
• Developing decision-making skills
• Building better teams
• Increasing interpersonal effectiveness

Following our executive coaching, clients:

• Demonstrate readiness for increased responsibility
• Adopt a more strategic and influential management style
• Show greater self-confidence, take greater risks, step up to new business challenges
• Work more effectively with others
• Achieve better business results

Our coaching works best when senior management:

• Support the client's readiness and motivation to change
• Connects development efforts to the organization's strategic goals and directions
• Implements an appropriate follow-up plan related to the coaching
• Commits to the financial and time requirements for effective coaching

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