Executive Coaching
Have you ever tried to sit on a two-legged stool? All you really notice is the effort required to stay balanced.
After several years of consulting and training in process improvement and change management, we’ve noticed that most change management programmes eventually fall over. And that’s because consulting and training alone give you only a two-legged stool. It’s the equivalent of restructuring and system implementation with no leadership development…
Your stool’s third leg is executive coaching. Without that, without new ways to see the changes going on in your organisation, it is difficult to give the top-level support needed to ensure success.
Our Executive Coaching Programme has just one purpose: Helping you render your service organisation Fit for the Future!
We offer personalized one-on-one executive coaching to enhance productivity, performance, and personal effectiveness. Executive coaching is appropriate for senior executives, managers, board members and volunteers (in the not-for-profit sector) who want to take their organisation’s performance to the next level.
This programme offers participants maximum flexibility and is customized to meet individual goals and needs. It includes unlimited access and is offered remotely by phone or in person, at your office.
Focus ranges from real-time consulting on confidential challenges confronting coachees to developing longer term strategies for professional growth. Typical coaching results include strategic focus, enhanced leadership development, relationship building skills, belief & behavior alignment, conflict resolution, stress reduction and goal achievement.
The Foundation
The Fit for the Future Executive Coaching Programme is geared to helping you to understand where you are now. Together, we will create a foundation for understanding your current situation. There are three elements to this understanding…
- Where your organisation as a whole, and your individual department in particular, is situated in its development lifecycle.
- Your value model.
- Your value discipline.
Taken together, you will have a comprehensive understanding of your current situation: which value discipline you are pursuing, which model you are using to pursue it and which phase of development your organisation is in.
Once understood, the value discipline and model (should) not change. This is your “business”. If these are in flux, the whole business is at risk. The only thing that changes is your organisation’s position in its development lifecycle.
Your understanding of your organisation’s place in these three areas is the foundation of all managed change. And greatly improves the chances that the managed change will lead to long-term and sustainable improvements.
Industrialising Understanding
The next phase of our executive coaching process is to establish that same understanding throughout your organisation.
The main steps along that path are…
- Check that the current value model and value discipline is the correct one for your business. And put in place programmes to correct this. If value discipline and the model you are using to pursue it are incorrect, the whole business is at risk.
- Identify the steps to implement change in your organisation based on the Strategic U-turn model for change.
- Implement strategies for carrying your organisation through the Strategic U-turn.
- Set up near-term and longer-term Action Plans for each of the seven steps of the Strategic U-turn.
- Establish a structure of accountability so that you will follow-through on your action items.
- Finally, track and measure your progress and results. Make course corrections along the way.
Is this for you?
Our ideal client for our executive coaching process is someone who has already experienced several change management projects and/or restructurings and wants to see sustainable results.
An effective client will
- hold an operational position in an organisation with more than 150 employees
- have budgetary accountability
- have decision-making authority
- not be a risk-taker (ie. is willing to do sufficient research be sure of the outcome)
- accept responsibility for their actions.
Stephen Hay is the exclusive resource for those who enroll in this programme and looks forward to working with you.
