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Executive Coaching
It is a well-known fact that sports professionals and high-level athletes (Olympians) use the services of personal coaches. The coach helps the athlete with the various technical aspects of the sport and his/her physical endurance as well as his/her mental resistance and self-confidence.
The objective is to help the athlete improve his/her performance and reflexes and surpass his/her performance day after day in order to become the best. The level of competition is so high that it would be impossible for a professional athlete to surpass him/herself without a coach.
The business world is not very different from professional sports. Everything is compared and competition is everywhere. The pressure is increasingly intense and performance is an absolute necessity. Managers who are left to their own devices often run out of means.
Despite the numerous coaching courses offered, very few managers can really take the time to coach those they work with in order to develop them and help them increase their skills in a manner that is sustained, orderly and predictable in all of their duties.
The reasons are simple:
- They don’t have the time: the higher you rise in the hierarchy the more decisions you have to make; these decisions are increasingly complex and, oddly enough, there is less and less time in which to make them.
- They haven’t been trained to do this: how many managers are capable of making a performance appraisal?
- They don’t want to invest in such a personal relationship, since executive coaching is a process that requires a very high degree of loyalty and trust. Moreover, trust and loyalty are on the decline in the present world. It’s basically everyone for themselves.
The bosses provide objectives to be attained, but they do not always provide the support and coaching required. They set objectives, they follow-up, they suggest corrective measures, and they go on and, often at the speed of light, without taking the time to celebrate their successes.
What is executive coaching?
It is the action of guiding another person in a process to acquire competencies, including knowledge and skills specific to the performance of a profession.
Knowledge refers to the knowledge of laws, rules, policies, practices (in the sense of best practices), methods, procedures, processes…. needed to practice a profession.
Skills are, for example, the leadership, team spirit, thoroughness, monitoring, discipline, planning, organization, decision-making ability, sense of timing, stress management, time management… inherent in a profession.
Level of intervention
The action of guiding may be intended to move the individual being coached from one level to another:
- Beginner to junior
- Junior to intermediate
- Intermediate to senior
- Senior to expert
- Professional to manager
DSC has developed a methodology to enable managers or professionals to improve or develop their management skills and their performance and, as a result, to improve the team’s performance.
Methodology
- Identify the knowledge and skills to be acquired.
- Establish an assessment grid to note progress.
- Establish the priorities that require improvement.
- Guide all of the improvement efforts and monitor progress rigorously and on a regular basis.
Our approach includes one-on-one intervention, on-the-job coaching and troubleshooting. It includes:
- A guide that is adapted to:
- the individual
- the position
- the company
- the management philosophy
- the company objectives
- Planned, structured meetings
- Weekly telephone follow-up
The guide is designed to enable the manager to continue progressing even after the executive coaching contract has come to an end.
Executive coaching may be provided for a team or a single person.
To sum up, executive coaching is an investment in an individual who has potential for advancement. This investment must ensure a return.
Contact us for more information.