Executive Coaching
The essence of executive coaching is helping leaders work through their dilemmas so they can transform their learning directly into results for the organization.
Lateral Coaching typically:
- Share conceptual frameworks, images, and metaphors with executives.
- Encourage rigor in the ways that clients organize their thinking, visioning, planning, and expectations.
- Challenge executives to expand their learning edge and go beyond their current level of competence.
- Build clients´ capacities to manage their own anxiety in tough situations.
Executive Coaching is the process of increasing the clients effectiveness in meeting the following three responsibilities:
- Communicating the territory, that is, the purpose, the vision, and goals of the organization to key constituencies, as well as outlining opportunities and challenges.
- Building commitment, building relationships, and facilitating interactions that result in outstanding team performance.
- Producing results and outcomes through the direct efforts of others as well as the executives own efforts.
Key elements of an executive coaching programme might be:
Contracting - discussions between the coach, the person being coached (the coachee) and the organisational representative who has commissioned the programme (the “client”) during which the objectives for the programme are agreed. This ensures clarity of expectations and agreed outcomes.
Feedback from colleagues - the feedback can be collected through various routes, such as questionnaires or interviews with peers, direct reporting lines and superiors. The results of this feedback are discussed and used to enhance the first formal coaching session.
Formal and informal coaching sessions - your coach is also available between formal sessions for short informal telephone discussions.
Review - two individual review sessions take place, one at the half-way point to establish how the programme is progressing and one after the final session. Each consists of a one hour round-table meeting between the client, the coachee and the coach.
