What an Executive Coach Can Do For You

MASTERFUL COACHING Growing Leaders, Growing Companies

This booklet will answer the questions you might have about working with an executive coach.

What Executive Coaching Can Do For You

Executive coaching is about creating an Impossible Future for yourself and your business, one that represents winning. We have found that executive coaching is the fastest, most powerful, most profound way to develop leaders, while at the same time impact business results.

What is executive coaching?

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MYTHS Let’s clear up the 4 Myths of Coaching

What will people think if I engage an executive coach?

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Busting Coaching Myth 1

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Coaching is for winners

who want to take

their leadership

game to the next

level, not losers.

Gates, Jobs, Disney: Creating a future or filling a gap?

Coaching is about creating ‘Impossible Futures,’ not filling leadership behavior gaps.

Busting Coaching Myth 2

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Busting Coaching Myth 3

Coaching is about accomplishment, not therapy.

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Coaching is a day-in day-out process, not an isolated event at the annual review.

Busting Coaching Myth 4

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Jones, you have a 4 on your project management, a 3.2 on team work, a 2.4 on developing others, a ...

What should be the focus of the coaching?

Extraordinary leaders develop in the process of producing extraordinary results.

► Your Business Challenge

►Your Leadership Challenge

►Your Career Challenge

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►Raises Aspirations & Motivation ►Trusted Confidant on Leadership & Business Concerns ►Thinking Partner & Sounding Board ►Political Mentor — Navigating the Political Chessboard ►Nudge — Management By Follow Up

What is the role of an executive coach?

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Am I a good candidate for executive coaching?

►An organizational ambition ►A big personal ambition in service of the organizational ambition ►A high level of intensity around making something happen… you may even be fanatical. ►A basic attitude of learning, curiosity and humility.

YOU HAVE...

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Does the coach strike me as possessing

the leadership coaching/ mentoring qualities I admire? Does the coach have a proven track record of extraordinary business results? Does the coach have the ability to transform human attitudes and behavior? Do we have good chemistry?

How do I choose a coach?

Choosing an executive coach should not be like a throw of the dice.

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Ask yourself...

How do I make sure that the coaching relationship works?

The Coach’s 100 Percent

Makes your goals and intentions their goals and intentions

Provides straightforward, honest feedback Focuses on “what’s missing that can

make a difference” rather than “what’s wrong”

Holds you accountable for your word

The Coachee’s 100 Percent

Has something at stake, for example, an extraordinary future

Puts aside the “do it myself” syndrome and agrees to be coached for a while

Listens to what the coach says as if it were gold

Keeps commitments once they are made

For an extraordinary coaching relationship, you and your coach must have something at stake and each bring a 100% commitment to your work together

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What should I expect to work on with the coach?

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Design an Impossible Future for you and your

organization

Create a “Source Document” that assesses the situation

& how to impact it

Come up with a strategy and winning

game plan for the business

360 leadership feedback based on interviews of key

people who work around you

Design a leadership roadmap, how you will develop to achieve

your Impossible Future

Implementing goals: What’s happened? What’s

missing? What’s next? The Coach Works Together With You To...

How long should I have an executive coach and how often should we meet?

To impact leadership and development, as well as produce extraordinary business results, takes a minimum of one year.

► Meet monthly and speak weekly to stay in the same universe

► Get the coaching on the calendar

► Coaching happens in conversations and is led by the most pressing issues you have on your mind

A great executive coach has no other agenda then to help you to be successful.

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