We coach CEOs and senior leaders by providing and highly relational ‘Trusted Advisor’ service to create a ‘Future Leadership’ mindset that really delivers.
Our Trusted Advisor service is a confidential, individually tailored one-to-one programme that develops organisational leaders who are energised, proactive and effective and who bring the best out of those they manage. It can be delivered within the context of the organisational change process, or, it can be delivered with a focus on leaders’ personal and professional development within the broader context of their role.
Through a three-day programme we equip managers and leaders throughout organisations with a future leadership mindset, fit for the next decade. At the core of this development is 5DL (Five Dimensions of Leadership).
These highly interactive, modular programmes can be used to suoport leadership teams, talent groups and broader groups of management. They will take your people through a series of 5DL ‘Future Leadership’ steps.
Our approach to coaching is about enabling each leader to develop their ability to self-reflect, and to understand what this means in terms of their own strengths and limitations and how they affect and impact others. However, CLC never forgets that the organisation is the ultimate client. Therefore, the context for CLC coaching is to unlock individual potential, energy, creativity and commitment in support of the organisation and its change goals.
Our coaching involves a series of meetings, typically 1.5 hours at fortnightly intervals, for a six to nine month period. These meetings are supportive, challenging and highly reflective conversations. They help change attitudes and deep-seated personal mindsets that inhibit change, and manage a range of different responses to change, ultimately creating more effective leadership behaviour.
The process involves dialogue at two essential levels:
The specific benefits are always linked to the leader’s unique development areas. Generally speaking, you can expect to see an increase in:
The CLC coach/consultant meets with the client to agree the desired outcomes of the coaching programme. What needs to be different in a three month, six month, one year time frame that the coach can support? Measures are agreed – ‘how will we know that this programme has been successful?’ It is valuable to involve the client’s line manager in the contracting process. This makes sure that there is clarity of focus and transparency from the outset.
It may be useful to explore the use of other assessments and diagnostics including personality profiles and 360 degree feedback. CLC can bring our own tools, or we can any that are currently in use in the organisation.
The coach meets with the client for a series of two weekly coaching sessions for six to nine months. Whilst the coach and client are working towards the delivery of an agreed contract, the specific focus of each session, which is a step towards completion of that contract, is determined by the emerging client needs through the course of the sessions.
The conversations often include discussion of:
Early on:
Then:
Coaching is an ongoing, iterative process. It works around the core objectives that get set early on, though usually the ‘goal posts’ move during the course of the programme. It is a useful discipline to stop at intervals to ask, ‘what did we aim to achieve and what have we actually achieved?’
If the client’s line manager has been involved then the coach and client report back. What has been achieved and learned so far?
It can be useful to repeat any diagnostics and 360 feedback to get a quantifiable measure of progress.
Strategies and processes don’t drive change. People do. For over forty years we’ve been helping senior leaders to secure complex change. Mergers and Acquisitions, new strategies, Operating Models, downsizing and digital transformation – all require attention to the human side of change.
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