Work with a Trusted Advisor to Meet Personalized Performance Goals
The C-level executives we work with are already extremely competent. With some, the focus is on accelerating their development. With others, it is changing behaviors that are holding them back. Because they occupy such strategically important positions and have such wide-ranging impact, helping them function at their very best is critically important. We improve behavior in a business setting in a way that leads to enhanced individual and organizational awareness, effectiveness and impact.
The Individual Coaching Process
The coaching process generally follows this pattern:
- Your boss and/or human resources executive is usually often involved in the initial phase and provided with updates along the way—without violating confidentiality—and consulted toward the end of the process.
- An orientation session is held in which we discuss the process and agree on the expected outcomes. This includes identifying the goals for both the individual and the organization, agreeing on the instruments and questionnaires to be used, setting the time frame and schedule of events, and identifying the respondents who will be interviewed or asked to complete a multi-rater assessment.
- The interviews are conducted and combined with assessment data in a format that brings all the information “to hand” to be discussed during an extended feedback session. Initial reactions and questions concerning the data are considered in this session.
- You and your coach each complete an exercise to consolidate the data and identify the major themes and patterns. During this meeting, an action plan begins to take shape.
- For the next several months, you implement the action plan and meet with your coach for a series of sessions to build skills, measure progress, make any necessary adjustments to the plan, and identify new issues as they arise. Coaching consists of discussions, modeling, and skills practice.
A personalized HDev Executive Coaching process typically covers a period of six (6) to eighteen (18) months and is data-driven, performance-based, and value-driven. We work with information gathered from a variety of sources including interviews, assessment instruments, questionnaires and psychological inventories. It is value-driven because you, as the client, are engaged in developing your unique goals and objectives. You are always the final judge of how well any anticipated behavioral change has occurred and how valuable it is in your personal and professional life.
Coached Executives will develop a self-directed approach to increasing leadership behaviors and will continually improve their leadership skills and effectiveness. At an appropriate interval, usually ten (10) to twelve (12) months after the action plan has been fully implemented, several follow-up interviews and/or multi-rater assessments are conducted to measure impact, adoption and retention.
To learn more, contact HDev.