THE COACHING CORNER

I want to start a series of posts around my thinking behind executive coaching.

One of the things I realize is that many people get hyped around the idea of coaching but often don’t understand either what it entails, the difference between coaching and mentoring, the models and approaches to coaching, and the kind of investment involved in doing this.

I have no idea how often I will do them, but just flagging it for those who are either interested in pursuing executive coaching for themselves or indeed those who wish to become coaches themselves.

I am approached by people to coach for a number of reasons which can include

• Performance Improvement

• Leadership Progression to C Suite/Equity Partnership/Senior Executive Roles

• Executive Presence and Influence

• Stakeholder Management

• Presentations Skills

• Leading boards and Excos

Working with clients from a variety of industries from banking to insurance, advertising to energy, and professional services to digital marketing, I have a number of specific approaches that I use to ensure I get my clients the best results possible. A clear return on investment. In true transparency, most of my coaching works and is successful, but sometimes it just hasn’t worked out either. I’d like to talk about those parts of the journey as well, whilst always protecting client confidentiality of course.

I would like to share some insights on my preferred models of Systemic Coaching and Appreciative Inquiry - shout out to Jerry Colonna for introducing me to this - and how they have shaped my own style of leadership coaching using The BRAVE Model™.

I will be talking about my coaching model for executive presentation skills called Stage Presence Coaching and exploring whether there are other coaching models out there for speaking and presentation skills.

Exploring the learning journey around being able to get clients to know the difference between One to One, Group, and Team Executive Coaching.

I’d also like to write about the role of ethics, different coaching bodies, robustness of coaching qualification vs coaching experience, coaching supervision, continuous professional development, and blind spots when executive coaching across cultures.

Keen to learn from other executive coaches as well when I share these.