Executive Coaching
Executive coaching is an intensive one-on-one engagement between a coach and senior executive or leader to maximize a leader’s capacity and potential. Executive coaching engages leaders in customized ways that acknowledge individual strengths and vision. Coaching supports leaders to reflect and think through alternatives, and to learn from challenging situations and experiences. Coactive Consultants executive coaching will reduce your isolation and support your learning, influence, creativity and power.
Coactive Consultants executive coaches specialize in coaching technically trained leaders, academic leaders, executive directors, and female executives. We offer on-site coaching, phone coaching, as well as intensive visits with remote clients.
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
Use Executive Coaching to master a variety of leadership challenges:
- Improve relationships with superiors, peers, direct reports, customers, and contractors by understanding differences in personality and motivation
- Lead teams in making effective decisions: increase trust, productivity, and business results
- Establish a strategic network of knowledgeable business partners. Learn the unwritten rules to lead and succeed
- Manage the transition into a new role, or into a new organizational setting and culture
Use Executive Coaching to build skills and leadership capacity:
- Identify your leadership strengths & challenges by using a 360° feedback and discovery process
- Learn to give specific, data-based feedback and receive feedback from others non-defensively
- Communicate clear expectations and hold others accountable
- Find an appropriate balance between task-oriented and empathetic communication
- Explore ways to motivate others and build influential alliances
- Set priorities, delegate responsibility, and achieve a satisfying and sustainable balance between work and family
- Enhance your ability to respond effectively to tension, change, and aggression
Organizational Benefits from Executive Coaching:
- Communicate that people are valued and supported in their development
- Understand that transitions require building bridges and connecting where you are to where you want to be
- Accelerate leadership development in a consistent way, rather than through trial and error or in reaction to crisis situations
- Facilitate problem solving by offering new perspectives that depersonalize problems and focus on facts
“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.” - Warren Bennis