♦ Do you want to support staff who might be working through a thorny issue? Dealing with burnout? About to make a significant transition?
♦ Do you want to help your key staff succeed and flourish at work, while thriving in their lives?
♦ Would you like to make effective support and guidance available to one or more of the people working for you who may be serving in a new and challenging role?
♦ Are you building a new team that will be critical to the success of your organization?
More than 600 organizations have hired us to do executive coaching for their most valued and promising staff. We’d love to be useful to you.
We have had the good fortune of working with a number of organizations that have reported great results in terms of individual performance and the flourishing of the organization from having us provide one-on-one executive coaching. Sometimes we just work with a single individual but more typically we work with a number of their key leaders over a two to three month period.
The CEO (often with a deputy) selects leaders whose success is most important to the organization. The numbers usually range from five to fifteen people. We meet with them in person and/or by phone 4-5 times each, typically over a three-month period. We help them get clear about:
- What are the most challenging issues presenting for them at work right now and what strategies might we be able to help them come up with to not just “get through it” but create a much better situation at work. This can include addressing challenging dynamics with other staff that they are only comfortable discussing in a particularly confidential context. These conversations have helped enormously in terms of building trust, communication and collaboration.
- What has worked/is working for them? What do they feel they are doing well that they can build on?
- What is their vision of success regarding their own work for the organization and what would they really like to help create at the organization?
- What do they need to help realize that vision? That is, what could theydo better AND what else is getting in the way that would most need to change for them to be able to help bring about their vision of success and the changes they see as most pressing for the organization.
- What steps can they take to establish the most solid personal foundation for their leadership so they are focusing simultaneously both on greater self-care and organizational effectiveness.
There are two important outcomes from this work:
Providing direct support to key leaders in ways that help them enhance their morale and performance.
When we work with multiple leaders from the one organization at the same time, we can also support the organization by carefully providing the CEO with important data without betraying anyone’s confidentiality. This usually involves identifying three to five keys issues for them to be aware of and follow up on, with possible strategies to help with continuous quality improvement.
There are many instances when the CEO agrees with us that we should share nothing back with them and only provide the direct support to their key leaders.