This course offers a unique opportunity to work with an executive coach to reflect on, learn from and challenge your professional experiences.  In this course you will identify both opportunities and obstacles relevant to a specific career goal you have for yourself and design an action plan to achieve that goal.   

The executive coach will assist you with the following outcomes:

Goal Identification: You identify a goal to achieve during the coaching period. Four categories of goals include:

• Coaching for skills helps the executive learn specific skills, abilities and perspectives over a period of several months. The skills to be learned are usually clear at the outset and are typically related to skills associated with new or different responsibilities.
• Coaching for performance focuses on the executive’s effectiveness in his or her current position. Frequently it involves coaching for one or more management or leadership competencies, such as communicating vision, team building or delegation.
• Coaching for development refers to coaching interventions that explore and enhance the executive’s competencies and characteristics required for a future job or role. It can be associated with outplacements, restructuring and reengineering in the organization.
• Coaching for the executive’s agenda generally entails working with an executive on any personal or organizational concerns he or she may have. It can focus on issues surrounding the executive, such as change and downsizing. Personal issues are more likely to arise in this type of coaching.

Self-knowledge:  New learning and self-knowledge is necessary to reach new goals. At times, the learning may be exciting and liberating.  Other times learning may be challenging such as when it involves new discoveries about the way in which your actions serve as obstacles to your intended goals.

Powerful Questions: The primary tool in coaching is the use of powerful questions in which you uncover new insights and perspectives. The coach relies on the wisdom and insight you possess.  Thus, the coach does not give advice or answers but rather assists students in uncovering their own answers.  The coach also asks powerful questions so that you can identify self-limiting beliefs and behaviors and replace them with new ones that allow you to reach your goals.

Action Steps: At the end of each session, you determine action steps to complete to move towards the declared goal. The coach will hold you accountable for completing those action steps. You will report on your progress in each session.

Characteristics of a student who is ideal for executive coaching:

• You are committed to the coaching both in terms of the time and financial investment required
• You take responsibility for the results you are creating in your life
• You have a real desire to reach your goal/manifest your dream
• You are open to new learning
• You are committed to your own success and willing to do the work to reach your goal especially when it is a stretch or out of your comfort zone
• You complete your action steps and follow-thru
• You provide feedback and ask for changes/adaptations as needed

Format:

• 4 group coaching sessions and 2 individual sessions.
• Email coaching as needed.
• Minimum of 4 people in a group.  Group sessions are 90 minutes every 2-3 weeks.  Individual sessions are on the phone or in person on the same day as one of the group sessions.  Individual sessions are 40-60 minutes