Executive Coaching
"I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches."- Harvey Penick
Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Executive Coaching has become a core part of leadership development with most organisations now engaging Executive Coaches for their Leaders and Future Leaders.
Executive Coaching can also include: Leadership Coaching, Business Coaching, Career Coaching and Coaching for Managers. Mentoring is distinct from coaching but shares many of the same skills sets, which we include in our Mentoring for Senior Managers program.
In the past coaching was used to help fix toxic behaviours, but today coaching is about developing the capablilities of high potential performers. Harvard Business Review (Jan 2009) reviewed the field of executive coaching and found that the top 3 reasons for engaging an executive coach were:
- To develop high potentials or facilitate a transition
- To act as a sounding board
- To address some derailing behaviour.
Some current definitions of Executive Coaching include:
- “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. Clients say coaching brings out their best by helping them focus, break down tasks and clarify their values.”- Fortune Magazine
- “Coaching is a managerial methodology that seeks to maximize employee performance by conscientiously considering individuals and their unique talents and abilities.”
- “Coaching is a conversation, a dialogue, whereby a coach and coachee interact in a dynamic exchange to achieve goals, enhance performance and move the coachee forward to greater success.” Zeus and Skiffington
The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as: "Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential."
Coaching for Human Resource Development
Coaching is intregal to Human Resource Development (HRD) where coaching plays an important part in reaching organisational objectives and filling the leadership pipeline. Coaching should be part of the skillset of every manager/supervisor and the organisation might retain experienced executive coaches for key high performers. Self Leadership International has provided consultants to partner with HR to develop a coaching culture.
Executive Coaches for Individuals and Organisations
At Self Leadership International we provide experienced executive coaching consultants to individuals and organisations and we train managers to use coaching skills. When using executive coaching for leadership development we can also provide psychometric testing and 360 degree feedback.
Several studies have been conducted to acertain the return on investment (ROI) of coaching and all have astonished even the most results-oriented employer and proven, hands-down, the worth of executive coaching. A Fortune Magazine survey found a 600% ROI on Executive Coaching whilst Merrill C. Anderson, Ph.D calculated a whopping 788%,
Check out our list of Coaching programs (left column) or contact us to discuss how we can coach you or your organisation to the next level.
We are based in Singapore but conduct programs for our clients in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, the Middle East and can coach worldwide.