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Leadership Coaching is essentially behavioral coaching to help change a behavior of a leader for maximum impact on their leadership and results. We use Stakeholder Centered Coaching (SCC) methodology to modify behaviors which takes advantage of the positive aspects of the leader’s beliefs and to overcome the negative aspects that can interfere with development. SCC is a practice that is based upon the principles and practices of Marshall Goldsmith, a world authority in helping leaders get more successful – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. The disciplined practice used in SCC will be of value to anyone whose goal is a positive, long-term improvement in his or her own leadership behavior. A typical leadership coaching engagement can take from six months to a year.
SCC is not theory. It is about action. Success in this process does not have to take up a lot of your time. In fact, using this methodology is very time efficient.
In a typical engagement, the leader and the coach work together to select the behavior that will have the most significant impact on the leader’s development, and to determine the appropriate set of stakeholders to get the process moving. Once the process is in full swing, the coach and leader will determine an appropriate meeting frequency, which could be as little as one time per month. Then, the leader will check-in with his or her stakeholders each month; the check-ins should take no more than 2 to 5 minutes each. Finally, there will be two progress check-points during the engagement; stakeholders will participate in a mini-survey at 5 months and 11 months, where they provide anonymous feedback on the degree of improvement perceived. The survey focuses only on the behavior the leader set-out to improve.
The coach-leader meetings can be face to face or virtual using technologies such as Zoom.
Our experience suggests that the steps in this process must be rigorously practiced for at least a year before there is certainty that the change in behavior will be rooted in enough experience to become permanent. A year is a realistic minimum standard. Success in modifying some behaviors can take even longer. The more powerful benefit for you is when the process itself becomes a habit.
Leadership coaching can be valuable in a number of situations:
The leader wants to change one behavior that will make the biggest difference in their performance.
The leader has a behavioral blind spot that is holding back or even derailing their career.
The client has a limiting belief, perception, or attitude that is holding them back.
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