The Role Of Executive Coaching

Ultimately, it’s individuals who deliver the outstanding results an organisation seeks. Ivan Lawrence Coaching offers proven executive coaching and leadership development programmes that increase personal motivation, management performance, and business profitability. Recruiting and retaining well motivated, high performing individuals is a well-established business goal, but much more difficult to achieve than articulate! Individuals nowadays have very specific requirements if they are to commit to maximum performance consistently, and for the benefit of others as well as themselves.

This is where Ivan Lawrence Coaching executive coaching can make a big difference, benefiting the individual and the organisation over a sustained period. Utilising an executive coach independent of the organisation also ensures the process of learning and growth is not impaired by the perception of ‘hidden agendas’ or inhibition that can result from coaching from a colleague.

It can be done on a stand-alone basis, or in conjunction with a formal management development programme; supporting one-off scenarios, or following a structured agenda to enhance an individual’s confidence and performance over a broader range of business scenarios.

Benefits of Executive Coaching:

• An independent sounding board for individual Senior Managers, aiding clarity, direction and insight
  
• Leadership development in a non-judgemental environment
  
• Reduces feelings of isolation for key staff enabling optimum morale and performance
  
• One to One management training and development
  
• Management performance coaching for improved individual outputs
  
• Improved decision-making and better implementation of corporate strategies
  
• More time to manage and lead effectively
  
• Better self-management resulting in improved internal relationships and communication, allowing you to fully release your potential
  
• Build confidence and assist effective performance from newly promoted individuals more quickly
  
• Quicker adoption and application of new skills (research shows training and coaching improving productivity by 88% vs 22.4% increase via training alone. International Personnel Management Association 1997)
  
• Targeted coaching on specific issues eg an important presentation or negotiation
  
• Stress management coaching resulting in a better work-life balance and greater productivity

There are of course others. But with today’s managers citing the big issues for organisational success as: staff motivation; improved management skills; better use of time; nurturing talent within the organisation; promoting leadership; and better management of change, executive coaching can offer a timely, robust, and very cost-effective contribution to improved organisational performance, and the recruitment and retention of the very best staff.

The Way Forward

To be thoroughly effective therefore, Executive Coaching requires a comprehensive assessment and briefing of the personal and organisational drives for the coaching, and clearly defined outcomes agreed by all parties. These may well be stated in high-level terms since the coach will only work on a confidential basis, with the executive determining the level of any detailed feedback.

The first steps in Executive Coaching are therefore to meet with all interested parties, scope the issues and determine the way forward to the satisfaction of everyone concerned.

To arrange your no obligation discussion on how Ivan Lawrence Coaching executive services could improve your performance Contact us.

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