Senior executives use an executive coach to help them manage the complexity of their job. An executive can benefit from coaching when the following situations arise:

• Transition to a new position
• Sudden decline in business performance
• Political uncertainty
• Need to build a stronger leadership team

In each of these situations the executive learns what the statement “Lonely at the Top” means. The coach’s job is to help the executive take decisive action in the face of incomplete, often conflicting information.

Executive Coaching is intensive, lasting 9 months to a year (in some cases more).

Results are highly individualized. In one case, coaching helped the executive build a global team and in the process turn an average business into the cornerstone of his company’s strategy. In another case the results were much more personal as the executive learned how to use more intuition in working within an increasingly complex organizational structure. In yet another case, coaching meant the difference between the executive staying with the company and leaving.

There is an added benefit to executive coaching: well-coached executives tend to become good coaches of their people, creating positive impact throughout the organization.

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For every executive who has the capacity for rapid advancement in the company, there are many managers who must continue to grow within their jobs, even if they never receive another promotion. These managers form the core of the company’s ability to execute its strategy. As they go, so goes the company. If they are average, company performance is average. It is in everyone’s interest build stronger leadership among this core. Bench Strength Coaching plays a major role in helping these people develop.

Although Bench Strength Coaching is not as intensive as Executive Coaching, it has several advantages.

• Reaches the entire management population, not just the select few.
• Helps each person develop a realistic self-image of him/herself as a leader.
• Raises awareness of the connection between leadership performance and strategy.
• Creates a positive climate for learning across the entire organization.
• Provides a common language for developing emerging leaders.
• Surfaces organizational issues that can be fed back to the unit head and HR.

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In spite of predictions that e-learning would make leadership programs obsolete, most companies find that the benefits of group learning for such a complex topic as leadership far outweigh the costs of bringing that group together. In addition to individual learning outcomes, typical benefits include greater alignment with strategy, development of enterprise perspective, and cross functional awareness.

To meet this expanding array of outcomes, leadership programs have evolved several unique features, including direct dialogue with senior management, peer coaching, real-time business problem solving, technology-mediated simulations, and pre- and post-program telephone coaching.

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