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LEADERSHIP COACHING:Are You Maximizing Potential?
December 2007
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•Employee Engagement & Retention
•Employment Branding
•Career Management
•Strategy Implementation
•Change Management
•Performance Management
Human Capital Lifecycle
• Talent Attraction Planning
• Competency Modeling
• Individual Assessment
• Team Assessment
• Organizational Assessment
•Coaching•Leadership
Development •Team
Development•Professional
Skill Development
•Succession Management
•Outplacement•Career Decision•Organizational
Transition Planning
•Organizational Transition Implementation
•Redeployment
Scope of Services
Attract & Assess Develop Engage &
Align Transition
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Today’s Outline
Why Leadership matters Coaching defined The Benefits of Leadership Coaching Getting a ROI What’s your batting average and how to
improve it! Next Generation Coaching Comments / Questions
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Organizations with top-tier leadership have: a 9.6% higher total
shareholder return over 3 years than the average organization
significantly higher financial value relative to peers (market capitalization)
Ref: Corporate Leadership CouncilSuccession Management Survey
Leadership Matters!
Today’s realities demand:
– Larger and more global organizations– Changing global economy– Leaner organizational structures– More dynamic labor markets– Increased importance of human capital– Enhanced leader pipeline to offset
demographic trends– Growing leadership capacity– Strong leaders
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Coaching Definition
Coach: From the middle english expression “coche”: A secure means of conveyance from one location to another
Products of Coaching: Self generating, self correcting, long term excellent performance. (Flaherty: Evoking Excellence in Others 1999)
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What distinguishes coaching…
From:
– Mentoring– Teaching or Consulting – Counseling or Therapy
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Why a Strategic OD Investment ?
Connected to your business strategy Addresses retention Learning insurance for Skill development Increasing your organization’s existing leadership
capacity.
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Leadership Coaching
Benefits to your Organization: Improved bottom-line results Effective successions Valued leaders retained Improved morale Increased productivity Enhanced leadership accountability at all levelsIncreasing overall leadership capacity
Leaders benefit at every level: Emerging Leaders or High Value
Talent – helping them prepare for the leadership role.
Developing or Mid-Level Leaders – helping them meet challenges in their current leadership positions.
Strategic or Executive Leaders – helping them successfully deal with significant organizational challenges.
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The ROI of Coaching
Tangible Benefits…
The Manchester (now Right) study attempted to quantify the benefits received by a sample of 100 senior business executives.– Leadership Coaching delivers a ROI of 5.7 times the cost.– 70% estimated the value at $100,000 or more.
The effectiveness of training programs is also greatly augmented by adding a coaching component to them.
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Tangible Benefits
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Coaching Coaching delivers delivers increasingincreasing, , sustainable resultssustainable resultsCrane, Kavanagh, RackhamCrane, Kavanagh, Rackham
Limited resultsLimited results
Coaching Augments Training
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Why 40% of Newly Promoted Leaders Fail Within 18 Months
82% Fail to build partnerships and teamwork with subordinates and peers
58% Confused or unclear about what is expected of them
50% Lack of required internal political savvy
47% Unable to achieve their two or three most important objectives
28% Take too long to learn their jobs
25% Lack of balance between work and personal lives
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Coaching’s Levels of Learning…
Incremental Improvement - new skills, practices, doing things better
Re-shaping Patterns of Thinking - revising frames of reference, how one
sees the world, and assumptions about the way things work
Transformation – a fundamental shift in how one sees oneself
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New Year’s Resolutions
What’s your batting average…?
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New Year’s Resolutions Increasing the Odds
Clearly identify what success looks like. Define some ways to measure progress and ultimate
success. Publicly declare and invite others to persistently keep
you accountable Enlist supporters in areas of life where it shows up. Define and then seek winning conditions Identify potential barriers and develop strategies to
overcome. Learn from success and set backs equally. If all else fails…
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Next Generation Coaching
Coaching that:– supports the achievement of business outcomes– augments the leadership capacity required to drive business
results– enables systemic change– is sufficiently process driven to be repeatable– is measurable– is accountable for a positive ROI
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Other Questions or Thoughts?