Taking Charge: Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching is an approach to assist leaders as they navigate personal and organizational change initiatives.

Executive Coaching
Chicago Change Partners' Executive Coaching program is designed for people who are at the top, near or being considered as key players in the future of an organization. Chicago Change Partners understands today's senior executive—what they think and do, how they interact with others—all critical aspects of success for the individual and the company.

Chicago Change Partners' executive coaching program emphasizes a personalized approach. Key players are provided with critical feedback and support, enabling them to develop essential tools for aligning their values and skills with the organization's vision and personal aspiration. Coached executives strive to continue to be active participants in the process of achieving and maintaining sustainable growth.

Executive coaching is one of the best investments a company can make to grow the business, increase profitability and help individuals grow and lead change.

Individual skills matter . . . but at the end of the day, the trump card is change capacity. Everything else supports that. - Charles H. Bishop, Jr. Ph.D.

Why Executive Coaching?
Executive Coaching is about:

• Understanding and leadership of the context and the content;
• Investing in future success-supporting one's ability to make the most effective use of his or her leadership qualities, personal attributes and experiences;
• Being highly persuasive and influential in affecting, altering and guiding conditions and outcomes;
• Increasing personal change capacity because today's excellence is no guarantee for tomorrow's success;
• Channeling passion, imagination and commitment;
• Personally winning and sharpening the winning edge for the team and the organization.

Leaders are not born, they're made. - Vince Lombardi

If you have the capacity to change and learn at the individual and organization level, you are 90% there. - David Nadler; in his book Discontinuous Change

Executive Coaching offers executives an opportunity to:

Produce day-to-day results with a strategic view. Executive coaching supports maintaining and improving performance levels and strengthening leadership skills. Executives are taught to reinforce their reputations for getting results, to distinguish themselves from their peers and to define a direction for staying on top of his or her game.

Increase personal and professional satisfaction. Executives realize a greater satisfaction with their work and life as they gain an understanding of their thinking and behavior. This personal mastery increases results—results create success.

Improve relationships and communication skills. Executive coaching offers feedback designed to strengthen one's abilities and help achieve one's goals. Getting results through others is more important the higher one goes.

Influencing and motivating others. One key to executive success is getting better results from direct reports (influencing performance), greater cooperation from peers (lateral leadership) and stronger support from management (persuasion).

Fine-tune and master change. Executives learn to inspire and to attain higher levels of performance and satisfaction in themselves and others. They will learn to devise a practical methodology for continuous learning and development.


The Process

• Identify Objectives and Results
  A successful coaching partnership is based upon chemistry, agreed-to working relationships, time frames, specific goals and measures of success.
  
  
• Information Gathering / Assessment
  Confidential interviews with peers and others will be used to identify strength and areas for development. To further enrich the picture, tests may be used to help understand motivations, strengths and vulnerabilities.
  
  
• Development of a Tailored Coaching Plan
  Practical options to improve performance and personal aspirations are developed for a few areas of leverage. Key parties review the plan and agree on outcomes, support and measures of success required to be successful.
  
  
• Implement the Coaching Plan
  • Ad Hoc meetings based on need.
  • Scheduled meetings every six (6) weeks.
  • Reflect on the plan at critical points; "lessons learned."
  • Review of process; readjust the plan to fit emerging needs.
  
  
• Measure Progress
  Set the Next Steps. Appropriate measurements are applied to specific goals.
  
  
• Assess Results
  Report provided at end of the assignment.

In times of change, the one who responds positively to it inherits the earth. The Learned finds himself beautifully prepared for a world which no longer exists. —Eric Hofer, Longshoreman/Philosopher

To learn more, please contact us at:

Chicago Change Partners
5 Revere Drive, Suite 200
PMB 1982
Northbrook, IL 60062
Telephone: 847-835-7015
Email: charlie@chicagochange.com
Website: www.chicagochange.com

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