Want to Improve Your Employee’s Performance?
Does this Describe Your Situation at Work?
- I have a direct report that I just promoted and I want to succeed
- I have a leader in my group that has a technical background and has never had any training in how to be a leader
- I have someone that is key to my succession plan but has some leadership skills to work on before I can place him/her in that position
- I have a top-performing employee that is GREAT, but there are a few things that are holding him/her back
- I have a group of [project managers / directors / VPs / managers] that have similar roles and I would like to help them all improve their performance
- I have an employee whose habits make him/her hard to work with
If any of these scenarios describe your situation, contact me and we can discuss how 1-on-1 executive coaching or group coaching can benefit your company.
How Can Your Employee Benefit from Coaching?
- Learn the key leadership skills that are required for their new position
- Achieve positive changes in personal behaviors
- Learn how to understand and navigate a complex, matrixed organization and drive stakeholders to consensus quickly
- Learn how to put issues on the table, encourage good debate, and get consensus without being known as a trouble-maker
- Become more strategic than tactical
- Learn how to “manage up”
- Remove anger and emotion from confrontations
- Learn how to lead rather than manage people
- Improve communication skills with the Board and C-Suite
- Learn how to lead, communicate with, and influence a multi-generational team
- Negotiate more effectively
- Influence others
- Be more direct with others without offending people
- Learn how to mentor and coach instead of telling people what to do
- Understand the dynamics between the key people that are critical to work with
- Learn how to build a network and relationships in the workplace
If you want your employee to achieve any of these benefits in the next 6 months, contact me and we can discuss how 1-on-1 executive coaching or group coaching will get him/her there.
How Can Your Company Benefit From Coaching?
- Accelerates promotions required for succession plans
- Improves overall performance of key leaders
- Eliminates bad habits that are holding executives back
- Accelerates onboarding of newly promoted executives
- Converts a technical “geek” into a successful leader
What Would Coaching Look Like For Your Employee?
If you want to quickly achieve results for your employee in a private coaching session, then 1-on-1 Executive Coaching is probably the best fit for you. Characteristics of 1-on-1 Executive Coaching are:
- 1-hour coaching sessions over the phone (weekly or 2x/month)
- Homework is assigned as needed to practice new skills
- Assessments as needed
- Coaching results are typically achieved in an average of 6 months
If your employee would feel more comfortable in a group environment, wants the benefit of learning from his/her peers, and you are looking for a more economical coaching option, then Group Coaching is probably the best fit for you. Characteristics of a typical Group Coaching program are:
- 75-minute coaching sessions in a group teleconference (2x/month)
- Individual 20-30 min. laser coaching (1x/month)
- Ideal group size of 6-10 clients and 1 coach
- Homework is assigned as needed to practice new skills
- Assessments as needed
- Minimum length of group coaching program is 6 months
Examples of successful Group Coaching programs are:
- Executive women in technology (non-competing companies)
- VPs for a financial services company
- Program Managers (within one company or from non-competing companies)
- Recently promoted executives with technical backgrounds and no leadership experience
- Owners of professional services companies in a specific industry (non-competing companies)
Want to See a Sample Client Agreement?
Sure! Click here to download a sample agreement for 1-on-1 Executive Coaching. This agreement is typical when my client (who I’m coaching) is not the same person as the sponsor (the person who is paying for the coaching). Note also that we agree on initial goals for the coaching program, which is what you want to achieve personally through coaching.
The Client Agreement for Group Coaching is similar but will be customized for each group.
How do you get started?
- Click here to contact me and let me know that you want to get started with a coaching program.
- I will ask you to speak with your employee about the benefits of a coaching program, get their buy-in, and agree on goals for their coaching program.
- I will then contact your employee and ask him/her to complete a short questionnaire to tell me about themself and about your agreed-upon goals for coaching.
- Your employee will pick a coaching timeslot from my calendar.
- I will setup a phone conference where you, your employee, and I will discuss goals for the coaching program, roles, how we will give you status, confidentiality, and what the program will look like.
- Based on the questionnaire, I will draft a client agreement for you and your employee to sign.
- We start coaching!
Want to Read Some More About Coaching?
Ok, I know that many of you are new to coaching, so here are some articles you can read to learn more:
- “What Can Coaches Do For You?” – Harvard Business Review, January 2009
- “Is Coaching Worth the Money? Assessing the ROI of Executive Coaching” – exerpt from The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching: 50 Top Executive Coaches Reveal Their Secrets by Howard Morgan, Phil Harkins, and Marshall Goldsmith (eds.), 2005
- “The Ridler & Co. Survey of Trends in Buying Executive Coaching 2007″
- “ROI from Management & Executive Coaching” – Right Management Consultants, 2007
- “Ungagged: Executives on Executive Coaching” – Ivey Business Journal, May/June 2006