The Realities of Executive Coaching
As David Chinsky & Associates begins its 8th year in business, we are very grateful to our clients for so many different opportunities to be of value in the world. Your support of our work is appreciated and we look forward to continuing our long-term relationships with you.
We were honored recently by being invited to contribute to a study on executive coaching, the results of which were published in this month's issue of the Harvard Business Review. In a special report titled "What Can Coaches Do for You?", the authors synthesized answers to over 20 questions put to 140 leading coaches from across the country.
According to the article, executive coaches are hired most often to 1) facilitate a transition, 2) develop the capabilities of a high-potential manager and 3) act as a sounding board on organizational dynamics. In a typical coaching engagement, most clients and coaches meet face-to-face while roughly 20% utilize the telephone for interactions with a coach.
The article goes on to review the various tools used in executive coaching, the types of reports provided to clients, the characteristics that make someone coachable and the value clients place on certification, methodology and the experience and background a coach brings to his or her work with an organization.
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Embracing Leadership Fitness™
Successful leaders practice a consistent set of positive habits necessary for achieving sustainable impact. In their quest for increased agility, competency and energy, corporate leaders are tapping into the powerful synergies of leadership fitness™, an integrated model of leadership development based on the four dynamic qualities of clarity, confidence, effectiveness and vitality.
The Institute is a 12-month leadership development experience designed for high-potential leaders. Our program blends interactive learning sessions with executive coaching and leadership assessments, and is based on a model of leadership fitness™ we've created and use when working with our clients to help them achieve greater levels of clarity, confidence, effectiveness and vitality.
We deliver the Institute in two ways. Some of our clients prefer that the program be delivered onsite for their leaders only. Typically, class sizes range between 15 and 30. Other clients prefer to enroll one or more of their organization's high-potential leaders in one of our public, geographic-specific programs most proximate to their location.
Please click here for our 2009 program dates and locations.
Whether delivered onsite or through one of our public programs, the 12-month leadership development experience is structured around four, full-day, interactive workshops (one every 90 days), and executive coaching in each of the eight months that participants do not come to class. We find that this integrated learning approach creates sustainability for participants by building accountability around the commitments they make at the end of each quarterly workshop
. Several leadership assessments are included as part of the program and each leader develops a customized development plan around the four components of our leadership fitness™ model: clarity, confidence, effectiveness and vitality.
More information on the Institute is available at www.instituteforleadershipfitness.com. Call us on 866-960-LEAD and we will be happy to answer any questions you have about the Institute. |
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One More Thing
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, BEGIN IT! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." (Goethe)
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." (Buddha)
"There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to institute a new order of things." (Machiavelli)
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Outliers and Success
Each month, we review a book selected to both engage and challenge leaders as they seek to make a difference in their organizations.
Our pick this month is Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
I must start by saying that Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite authors. As a reporter for The New Yorker, and author of The Tipping Point and Blink, Gladwell impresses with his story telling abilities and easy reading prose.
In Outliers, Gladwell forces us to reassess what "really" accounts for success in life. By examining patterns that most of us overlook or ignore, Gladwell patches together explanations for success that are both compelling and sensible.
Two of the most interesting chapters in Outliers are "The 10,000-Hour Rule" and "The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes". Each of these stories help us look beyond the obvious to see what actually leads to success in the world around us. In a heart-warming epilogue, the author permits us to peek into his own life to see how having the right opportunities in life can explain a large portion of our success.
This gem of a book will alter forever the way the reader thinks of outliers, and present a perspective that will go on to challenge the way we see success in life, ours and that of others around us.
For our current reading list, please click here. |
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