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Executive Coaching is a collaborative and focused relationship that over time can transform the effectiveness of a leader. Throughout history successful athletes and performers have realized that they cannot excel without the guidance of a coach. Just like an athletic coach, the business coach is a skilled observer of the habitual behavior patterns to which the client is often blind. Through the introduction of new models, distinctions and practices, the coach helps the client reinterpret events, making a broader range of possible choices available.
The purpose of coaching is to build new competencies and the capacity for more effective action. Coaching goes beyond teaching leadership theories, and instead engages the client in action that produces embodied learning — the ability to respond to events in an immediate and powerful way. A coach
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"The impact of training classes tends to be short-term and diminish over time. I believe coaching is about gaining insights into one's intentions and behavior, and applying this insight to dramatically increase effectiveness in influencing people and events."
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can often guide a manager to a level of competence they never knew was possible.
The coach's role is to assist you in developing the insight, skills, and new practices necessary for you to reach your developmental potential.
Coaching is an investment that benefits you through finely tuned development program that allows more economic use of your time than off-site classes. Coaching is especially valuable as a development tool because it uses your real work situations and challenges to provide a more practical learning arena.
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Our approach to coaching is pragmatic — there must be a value contribution to the business. We use a proven methodology that produces long lasting performance enhancement. We begin the coaching relationship by defining a primary objective and a set of desired outcomes. The coach observes the client in action and assigns self-observation exercises and practices to reveal and shift the client's patterns of interpreting and responding to events. The client and coach move through a process of inquiry, reflection, and discovery that heightens the client's awareness and range of options. The coach is there to ask powerful questions, listen for what is not being said, give honest feedback, challenge, encourage, and support. Our coaches bring the qualities of rigor, compassion, presence, commitment and skilled listening to the relationship.
Lasting change requires repetition and reinforcement of behavior over time. We typically work with a client for 6 months or longer, requiring a relationship built on mutual trust, commitment, and accountability. The goal of the coaching process is for the client to achieve the intended outcomes, as well as be able to sustain long-term excellent performance, be self-correcting, and self-generating.
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