Executive Coaching...

Business Challenge

Executives need to balance learning with managing their image as leaders. One practical way to do this is to work with an executive coach, a relationship in which it is safe to explore and where you can have an opportunity to talk more freely than you may have done with anyone about your own dreams and business challenges. In the context of coaching, you can talk about things that you feel pain and passion about—and really get at the core issues for yourself, your team, and the organization. Of course, the sheer level of emotion in these conversations is sometimes far beyond what typically occurs in business, so the coaching relationship must be trusting and totally confidential.


Program

Executive coaching is intended as an intense, one-on-one, customized and personalized program between coach and executive. An SCG coach is part mentor, part challenger, part sounding board, and part cheering section. The coach works closely with you to help you gain a greater understanding of your situation. The sessions are targeted and focused on your needs, and the coach works in an objective way through addressing challenging and provocative questions, creating alternative solutions and options, and establishing priorities and deadlines to help make sure new skills and habits are developed and integrated.

Often feedback from peers and subordinates is solicited so the issues that stand in the way of personal development and performance are identified. The program may also involve initial discussions with other executives. You receive feedback on a wide range of interpersonal skills. Goals are set, action plans are created and implemented, and you and the coach work together regularly either by telephone or in person. Through a series of positive, constructive, and candid discussions, you receive the information necessary to implement changes that lead to long-term career development.


Coaching Topics

Here are some of the topic areas we have covered in past coaching assignments. You might find one or two of these beneficial to your own career:

Comprehending interpersonal competencies  Understanding people/team/organizational dynamics  Analyzing one’s role and its relationship to other parts of the organization  Understanding working styles and impact of own style on others  Giving and receiving feedback effectively  Managing self and others in conditions of organizational change and conflict  Becoming more self-aware  Developing social awareness  Polishing leadership skills  Decreasing acting out of emotions, unconscious conflicts and other dysfunctional behaviors  Improving working relationships between two people

Target Audience

Some of the situations in which an executive or emerging leader could benefit from coaching include: 

An emerging leader who is being groomed for, or who has just taken on greater responsibility  An executive who is an aggressive high performer who intimidates his staff  An executive who needs help mentoring employees to become leaders themselves and to work up to potential  An emerging leader who may be vital to the success of your business  An executive who needs a third-party to help strengthen interpersonal and relational styles to improve subordinate job performance and retention  An executive needing to improve his or her leadership skills and overall job satisfaction  A talented but inexperienced leader who needs to be guided and developed  An executive needing to build and effectively lead a coherent team  A technically competent executive who may lack the "softer" people skills  An executive who may be approaching a burnout phase and need assistance in reestablishing their priorities, as well as balancing their work and personal life  An emerging leader who needs to understand and exercise true leadership

Privacy Guaranteed

Executive coaching is a private, personal, and highly confidential program. Since the executive Coach is a neutral third-party, the only agenda is the executive’s success and well-being.



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