Executive Coaching

What is executive coaching?

Through a process of discussion and negotiation the client and coach collaborate to develop clear goals based on the specific needs of the client.

Using a flexible approach, the executive coach works with individual executives, managers and supervisors or groups to facilitate the development of their leadership skills so as to enhance their management skills.

How does Executive Coaching work?

The executive coach gives clients the opportunity of discussing workplace concerns in a confidential, respectful, non-judgemental one-on-one context. By improving management skills and enhancing communication, executives can build on their existing skills to become excellent leaders.

What is the executive coaching process?

  1. The client identifies areas of management that can be improved
  2. The client contacts the executive coach to arrange a preliminary session during which general principles of executive coaching are explored. This introductory session gives the coach the opportunity of analysing the client's workplace experience, concerns and issues, with the aim of assessing the client's coaching needs. The coach provides the client with a brief report which forms the outline of the coaching program tailored to the specific identified.
  3. The client and executive coach agree to begin a program of coaching, usually 10 to 12 one hour sessions at weekly intervals. The sessions are based on clear aims, objectives and action planning.
  4. During the coaching program the coachee brings to sessions critical incidents from his or her workplace. These critical incidents are unpacked and analysed and form the basis of sessions. In this way, examining the dynamics of interactions guarantees that the sessions are focussed, and relevant for the coachee.
  5. Between sessions the coachee puts into place new skills, knowledge, strategies and approaches modelled in previous sessions. In this way the client, with the support of the coach, builds on existing skill sets and develops improved personal effectiveness in order to achieve workplace goals.
  6. The coaching process allows for feedback on new strategies, reviewing these and fine-tuning to achieve the best possible outcomes.