Executive Coaching Programs
Are you able to recognise and leverage the moments when the true leader within comes out? Do you catch yourself when you are reactive with your team, your colleagues, or even your boss?
A ‘no’ to these are evidenced as career limiting thoughts and behaviours and may be taking you off course. Expert Executive Coaching can help move the needle in the right direction.
Our approach to executive leadership coaching offers leaders the opportunity to make far better application of natural strengths and, importantly, to identify and disable the reactive patterns that are limiting your authentic demonstration of leadership.
We provide coaching that delivers deepened self-awareness, practical tools for immediate application, and far greater personal agency in connection to your most important and pressing challenges. Expect to be transformed.
What is the purpose of Executive Coaching?
Put simply, Executive coaching is intended to help executives perform better at work by reliably accessing their non-reactive “leader self” to perform. Every leader has two selves. One is the reactive, fear motivated, anxious and self-preoccupied self, and the other is deeply purpose orientated, reflective, learning and appreciative self. The first is the “reactive self”, and the second is the “leader self”.
Research shows that approximately 70% of managers do not access their “leader-self” reliably, but rather find themselves thinking, talking, interacting and deciding out of their “reactive self” for most of the day.
But here is the clincher. Most of those 70% don’t know they are living reactively, and at the time are frustrated they are not seeing the results they want. They spend most of their time dealing with unwanted events, and in moments of honesty acknowledge they are playing “not to lose” rather than to win.
The purpose of Executive Coaching is to decisively move away from that persistent frustration, but rather experience work as a place where deep satisfaction accompanies the work of realising heart felt desired outcomes.
Why do some executives NOT get coaching?
While there is no doubt that executive coaching is on the increase (see this link), a Stanford study showed that two thirds of CEOs do not receive outside coaching. Interestingly, all of them wanted it.
It would appear that many CEOs choose to go it alone, but few if any really want to. We would propose that most are simply so over worked and so chronically preoccupied with urgent matters, that they simply can’t get beyond their pressing schedules to get help.
And is that so surprising? Most of us would confess to knowing we need help in a particular area, but failing to reach out and get it. Our own unhelpful patterns of thinking and doing somehow prevent us from doing what we deeply suspect is required.
Many of us seem to be hard wired to see our life challenges as something we must deal with on our own.
Receiving executive coaching is a proactive step that can open new possibilities for a working life that is powerfully moving in the direction of stronger partnerships, more vulnerability, less angst, more authenticity, less disappointing results and more shared success.
What are the benefits of Executive Coaching?
Perhaps the best answer to that is try executive coaching and experience the benefits for yourself. There is simply nothing like having your own story to tell.
Nevertheless, it’s fair to expect some description of what you might expect from your coaching.
Here’s a list that is informed by our 20 years of working with Executives, and what they have said:
- Deeply understand how your reactive, self-sabotaging patterns are at work in your day to day interactions and decision making.
- Experience a far greater sense of agency in connection to realising your true, heartfelt desires for yourself and your business.
- Develop a trusting, vulnerable and honest relationship with your coach where you sense you are safe enough to be challenged.
- Transform the way you work with your colleagues, making each conversation count towards building better relationships and creating great results.
- Find terrific insight about the next right move in connection to your most important and persistent problems.
What tools do we use at the Change Company?
Apart from the usual psychometric tools, for example those from the suite available at Team Management Systems, we also use 360 degree feedback tools to ensure your coaching is delivered in the context of reliable and relevant data. This data will include your self-assessment, and data about how others experience you at work.
We use two main 360 degree tools to accompany our Executive Coaching:
The Leadership Circle
A comprehensive leadership assessment tool that undoubtedly a breakthrough in the leadership arena. It is the only leadership assessment tool to directly measures the three main reactive tendencies that have been shown to negate leadership. It speaks to the heart of the leadership question, and enables conversations between coach and executive about the “inner” and “outer” work of leadership development.
The Diamond Power Index
The only 360 tool in the world that speaks directly to how Executives are using their power. We are proud to utilize this tool as a means of helping executives use their power with more awareness, more intention and more compassion. Ironically, while executives have significant power available to them, many of them do not FEEL powerful in a day to day, moment by moment way. This sense of powerless makes them vulnerable to misuse of their power. We utilize this tool to bring that transformational awareness to Executives.
Why choose the Change Company for Executive Coaching?
We have been providing Executive coaching for over 20 years. We have been trusted by hundreds of Executives and managers to provided coaching.
We understand the difference between therapy and coaching, and will not hesitate to recommend a trusted therapist if required. Much has been written about this important difference, and interestingly, an 2002 Harvard Business Review on the dangers of coaching remains one of the most read articles on the topic .
We take our accreditations seriously and continue to receive supervision to ensure we continue to refine and grow our capacity to coach with the upmost professionalism.
We are vastly experienced, trusted by many world class organisations, highly accredited and qualified, and we LOVE coaching. We believe coaching can be an exceptionally powerful approach to transform one’s professional and personal life.