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Executive Coaching: How Does it Work?
- Targeting senior-level executives in key leadership roles, executive coaching both supports an organization’s strategic goals as well as shows a clear commitment to employees by the investment shown in supporting their career development and success.
- Executive coaching scenarios include:
- High-potential executives poised to move into new positions or areas of responsibility
- Professionals moving into new or stretch assignments that require an additional set of leadership skills
- Key contributors who an organization wants to develop for more significant leadership roles and retain for the long term or executives who need to strengthen critical development skills
- Leaders assimilating into new cultures or organizational roles
- The Colman Approach: the executive coaching engagement can last from three to twelve months, and involves several critical steps, including: contracting, assessment and feedback, action planning, implementation of the plan and ongoing monitoring of progress. Although each assignment is tailored to address specific individual and organizational needs, our approach involves a number of common elements, including:
- Extensive assessment of both the organization and the individual to determine the starting point and objectives of the engagement.
- Preparing a vision statement or mission statement both as part of a strategic planning process and as a stand-alone exercise. Creating an effective vision statement, that will have a lasting effect, requires utilization of group input. If employees quote it and management lives by it then the statement is a success.
- A detailed development action plan that is agreed to by all parties.
- Regular one-on-one coaching between the executive and the consultant during the implementation of the plan.
- Several check-in meetings with the Board, executive’s boss and/or senior human resources staff during and at the completion of the engagement to monitor progress.
