Our Executive Coaching


How Executive Coaching differs to other methodologies


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Coaching allows you:

‘To step confidently into your as yet unknown, future potential’ (Abbott, C. )  with the greatest likelihood of  successful, measurable outcomes that are supported by data.  It facilitates you to 'live your best life'.

Coaching is:

‘A style of leadership within itself'  (Goleman).
Despite unpredictable risk factors, known/ unknown variables, coaching supports coachees to navigate their way through the wilderness toward success; leading their teams in unison, achieving shared goals, and driving forward progressive growth.

Why Executive Coaching

Our clients can feel stuck in a rut, frustrated, doubting the value of their contribution in their work. Clients may not know what to do, and realise that they need help to find a way forward. Executive Coaching pulls the answers from them and constructs them into achievable goals and a way forward. It links you back to your organisation or your aspirations.

Why Executive Coaching

Our clients can feel stuck in a rut, frustrated, doubting the value of their contribution in their work. Clients may not know what to do, and realise that they need help to find a way forward. Executive Coaching pulls the answers from them and constructs them into achievable goals and a way forward. It links you back to your organisation or your aspirations.

Why?

Why Executive Coaching?

Why Executive Coaching?

 

At Locus Partnership we believe Executive Coaching develops the individual’s abilities to grow in the following areas:

1. Strategy

2. Leadership

3. Productivity

4. Wellbeing

5. Personal Growth/Development

6. Confidence

 
Executive Coaching

Coaching facilitates a safe space to collate, challenge and reflect on thoughts, concerns, opportunities, aspirations; it focusses on developing a strategy to achieve goals set (personal and organisational). Coaching enhances your ability to plan tested and consideredresponses, not just react to pressures in the moment which can be damaging and confusing organisationally.

As a leadership itsel stykef, Goleman states it can enhance leadership capacity, help  focus on clearly established and communicated goals, and accomodate a  dynamically  shifting environment with multi faceted challenges.

Executive Coaching looks to take you beyond the boundaries that may unconsciously sit in your mind, and create new ways of leading that have the potential to exponentially enhance success.

The key to Executive Coaching is it looks at the skills and knowledge you have acquired to date, and opens them up to explore and build on. It consideres forgotten truths, unconscious bias, creative new ideas, opportunities for strategic change, thinking and reflection,  testing strategies safely before implementing, and new opportunities never consciously considered.

Mentoring
Mentoring is a valuable approach to learning, upskilling, and keeping all levels of the organisation in touch. It can be defined as ‘ supporting and encouraging people to manage their learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance’ (Parsloe & Wray).

That said, there is an argument that it only ever skills the  practitioner to the level of the expert mentor; therefore there is still an opportunity for further development to be achieved (beyond the level of the Exper Mentor). If this position is accepted, Mentoring has limitations within the knoledge the mentor is able to pass on.

Conversly, Coaching has no such limitation as it asks the coachees to explore thinking, future possibilities, impact analysis of change etc.. Coaching unlocks a person’s potential to maximise their own performance, helping them to progressivley learn rather than teaching them (Whitmore).

Within Locus Partnership we support the view that the answer always lies within the Executive Coachee, and therefore the Executive Coach’s role is to draw out the inner answer from the Coachee, rather than to implant knowledge and answers to solve it for them.

SO WHAT?

How can it help your development
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So What?

The Currency of the Board Room is Different

When you work through the lower levels of an organisation, the employee gains credibility in an organisation by doing their work effectively, promptly, efficiently; they are measured in a currency of what they deliver.
However, once you reach that senior executive level, this currency is no longer viable. It is now a given that you do this, it is what got you there, but now the currency has changed to:

  • How you think and act in response to situations

  • Your ability to network and connect effectively with others at a senior level to allow for joined up working, support in times of crisis etc.
The way you are able to think and who you have connected with will now give a successful outcome.The nature of the work at Executive level is focused on your ability to quickly draw in support, expertise, resources etc. and therefore the quality of your connections needs to be excellent.The Executive is also measured on their capacity to think in action, whilst responding to dynamic, complicated situations.

Given this, and the need to do one's best to avoid barriers such as unconscious bias or imposter syndrome, whilst also  providing excellent responses to situations that are emerging in the moment, it is clear that a different model is needed to support senior leaders and executives grow in their roles and achieve excellence. Mentoring and teaching cannot provide full competencies at this level.

In Locus Partnership we believe that Executive Coaching best supports Exec and Senior Leaders who need high level, mutifaceted and dynamic solutions in action. Coaching models an interactive approach to leadership. It is empoering and facilitative, supporting the coachee to reflect, consider impact analysis, choose a considered plan and adjust if the desired goals don't transpire.

It supports not just the individual but the organisation, linking to organisational values and performance indicators, and as such can greatly enhance:
  • 1. Leadership Style and presence
  • 2. Team Cohesiveness 
  • 3. Change Management
  • 4. Collegiality
Coaching challenges and strives to understand complex, systemic barriers to success.