Executive Coaching
A Confidential Relationship
Executive coaching is a confidential relationship where Kathleen serves as a behind-the-scenes sounding board for the client in the context of his or her growth as an organizational leader. At its best, this work offers the client a creative, nurturing, stimulating and safe space for talking about issues, sharing experiences, thinking beyond the norm, and reflecting on patterns.
Results
Effective executive coaching results in increased leadership impact, credibility, and job satisfaction. Clients feel more confident and are more competent when it comes to:
- Effectively engaging others to accomplish important work within or across systems and functional areas
- Better understanding of one’s specific role and how to fulfill it efficiently and effectively
- Clarity about one’s purpose and philosophy as a leader
- Handling specific challenging workplace situations and dynamics
- Building more satisfying and productive work relationships with direct reports, peers, senior managers, and customers
- Self-awareness regarding the specific values, underlying assumptions, behavior and strategies that shape one’s leadership role
Other positive benefits can include an increased sense of personal support for managing the stress and pace of a leadership role, improved clarity and centeredness, and a greater ability to be reflective, self-aware, and sensitive to others. Many report that these benefits transfer to their personal lives.
Throughout this work, Kathleen works from her knowledge and experience in the fields of executive coaching, organization development, change management, leadership, group development, and interpersonal relationships.
Possibilities
Outcomes articulated by the client always create the context for this work. Depending on what the client wants to work on, executive coaching can be intensely focused and short term or longer-term lasting more than a year. Short term work might focus on:
- Recognizing and dealing with resistance and conflict
- Making and executing decisions
- Delegation
- Building constructive team dynamics
- Addressing problematic performance of key employees
- Communicating authentically and effectively with different audiences
- Raising, discussing, and moving ahead with tough issues
- Building trust and credibility with employees, peers, senior managers, and customers
Ongoing support for continued leadership development can attend to:
- Increasing ability to think strategically and influence across an organization
- Identifying established behavior patterns and how they contribute to or inhibit success
- Understanding risk and personal change
- Reflecting on, discussing, and learning from challenging situations
- Defining one’s purpose as a leader and how to fulfill that purpose overtime and in multiple settings
- Exploring the role that work plays within one’s life and the balance between work and other aspects of life
- Identifying longer-term career goals and professional development edges
- Designing and implementing a longer-term development plan