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Transition from turbulence to tranquility

Specific Benefits Associated with Executive Coaching

1)     Key leadership question: Who is assisting your senior leaders in developing their balanced scorecard for measuring both personal and organizational performance?

Improved focus on more complete, comprehensive, and balanced performance outcomes. Coaches can help leaders identify critical process variables/outcomes that are necessary for long-term results.

2)     Key leadership question: Who is helping your senior leaders identify the specific leadership behaviors that are currently most critical to deliver desired results?

Help identify and align most critical leadership behaviors that are appropriate for the given situation. Coaches use 360-Degree input to help with alignment, because executives tent to use tools, they know that worked before.

3)     Key leadership question: Who is holding your senior leaders’ accountable for their day-to-day

activities and critical leadership practices?

Accountability and scrutiny are typically not in leaders’ daily behavior and actions. Coaches take accountability one step further. Coaches create accountability for leaders to engage in day-to-day activities and practices that impact both bottom-line and other critically important organizational variables. Coaches can provide accountability for such activities as employee engagement, problem solving, team building, improving communications, and succession planning etc. Leaders need regular accountability that drive overall organizational success.

4)     Key leadership question: Who is helping your senior leaders to develop their emotional

intelligence and control their egos and hubris?

Coaches can help develop the ability to interact with people and target specific relationships that are most critical for success. Coaches help target key relationships that need improving and hold leaders accountable. Coaches also provide input and feedback concerning communication effectiveness. This is usually needed and welcomed. Coaches also help leaders keep their egos in check and their self-concept firmly grounded.

5)     Key leadership question: Who is helping your senior leaders build stronger and more cohesive senior leadership teams in their operation?

Coaches help increase teamwork and cohesion. They help identify specific requirements the team will need from the leader to improve their performance. Coaches use inputs from team members to help leaders improve support mechanisms for the team. Coaches also provide specific tips for leaders to build more effective leadership teams.

6)     Key leadership question: Do your senior leaders have access to objective, candid and

outside-the-box input to improve their thinking and decision-making prowess?

Coaches provide expanded thinking and improved decision-making. In complex, dynamic, and political environments, coaches can serve as the trusted confidant that can be objective, apolitical, and candid sounding board. Coaches are not afraid to challenge leaders’ thinking. Coaches can provide an additional layer of thinking, input, and scrutiny above what is provided by board members and fellow leaders. Coaches can also help in areas of strategy planning, personnel decisions, policy development, and getting in front of organizational challenges and crises.

7)     Key leadership question: Who is providing your senior leaders with meaningful and specific feedback to accelerate their development and improvement?

Ongoing feedback and alignment is needed to assist leaders who find themselves in feedback vacuums they help leaders stay focused and provide ongoing, balanced and unvarnished feedback on their long term development and deal with leaders blind spots.

8)     Key leadership question: What steps are taken by your organization to keep your senior leaders pumped up and encouraged so that they can perform at the highest possible level?

Coaches can provide personal support and encouragement to leaders especially through periods of rapid organizational change.

9)     Key leadership question: Who is helping your senior leaders to develop their personal self-awareness and a real and comprehensive plan for their professional development?

Increased self-awareness and creation of realistic plans for leader development is the ultimate goal of coaches. Leaders are busy and struggle to find time for reflection and self-assessment coaches encourage leaders complete S.W.O.T analyses. Coaches assist leaders to understand how they are perceived by others.