Client Impacts
Building Leadership Effectiveness
Challenge: The challenges our 1:1 coaching clients' have addressed include:
- Supporting the success of a new leader.
- Leading a cross functional innovation team.
- Developing a high potential employee's ability to assume a new role and meet emerging challenges.
- Defining innovation strengths, and developing ways to extend them.
- Augmenting technical strengths with interpersonal strengths.
- Preparing for a change in strategic direction, or other significant organizational changes.
- Re-engaging teams after an organizational restructuring.
- Preparing for a successful retirement.
Strategy: The coaching strategies that fuel our clients' growth demonstrate the importance of:
- Linkages to significant personal and business outcomes.
- Data collection including inputs from multiple sources.
- A succinct, focused plan for measurable action.
- Personalized, scalable strategies.
- A change process they refine and strengthen over time.
- Cultivating support for new learning.
- Communicating and reinforcing successes.
Outcomes:
When our clients' stakeholders are asked to provide feedback on changes they're noticing in our clients' behaviors, they've responded with comments such as:
"As noted, he really has worked hard to do a better job of listening and letting the staff form its own opinions, even when his are already formed. He has conveyed a greater willingness to be flexible in his thinking. And at the same time he has maintained that sense of high expectations and urgency that push our organization to keep improving."
"She is more effective at collaborating with others; she is more flexible about approaches other than her own; and she has become even more adept (always was good) at moving her agenda forward."
"(Client) is broadening his scope of colleagues and gaining respect from a larger segment of the staff. (Client) is helping to break down historical walls and more technical issues are being discussed in an open forum."
"He is able to get work done more effectively and in partnership with his peers and customers."
"He is more approachable and open to other peoples ideas."
In other words, our clients meet their goals. Active skill-building and learning consistently translate into higher levels of accomplishment and greater realization of potential. Our clients focus on and extend what works, use their mistakes and learn from others. Their capabilities grow with their ownership of the coaching process and its outcomes. They also develop the supports needed to build on their successes after their work with COMPIO ends.