Executive Coaching
Our executive coaching courses are totally committed to helping your executive reach their goals. We recognise that many of your critical players and talented people will probably have been given the freedom to ‘get on with the job’. Whilst this freedom is essential, tremendous benefit is derived from the opportunity for appropriately challenging coaching support.
This investment will align your alumni together, to work towards your vision and strategic objectives. We will partner your executives with one of our highly skilled coaches and this partnership will serve to build confidence, competence and enhanced team cohesion.
Although executive coaching is becoming mainstream, many of the professionals we work with have never experienced professional external coaching before. We have a highly experienced group of executive coaches that use a raft of techniques, and will adopt an integrated approach which is person-centred. In other words we will integrate various coaching tools to meet the personal needs of your people.
The integrative coaching model explained
The integrative model is regularly used in executive coaching as a preferred way of working. There are many scholarly articles around this topic and one of the pioneers of coaching, Dr Jonathan Passmore describes the model as consisting of six streams that flow together.
Stream
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Description
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The Aim
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1 | Developing the Coaching Partnership |
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2 | Maintaining the Coaching Partnership |
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3 | Behavioural Focus |
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4 | Conscious Cognition |
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5 | Unconscious Cognition |
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6 | Systemic |
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The importance of the coaching partnership
Before coaching can begin, the coach and executive need to build an authentic working relationship. The potentially close and affirming relationship of coaching demands mutual respect and trust. To create this, our coaches must and will invest fully in the relationship.
During the first and possibly the second coaching session the coachee is likely to be evaluating the coach. Questions such as “Do I trust and like this coach? Do I value the service being offered to me? Will I be judged?” will need to be answered. The coaching partnership starts with an initial session where coach and coachee meet one another for the first time and the coachee gets the chance to ‘tell their story’. You can read more on our FAQs page. Careful scoping of desired outcomes along with a working agreement is forged. In all cases our coaches will work to stringent ethical standards and will be
– Totally committed to helping your executive achieve their desired goals
– A powerful supporter and appropriate challenger
– Non-judgemental and discreet – all sessions are confidential unless illegal activity is disclose
– An active encourager
Coaching is not consulting or advice, and our coaches will not be directing your people to take a particular course of action. We work from a position where we believe your people have the capacity and resources to find the answers within themselves, or know where to go to find out. The role of the coach is to act as a conduit, helping the coachee along a path until they discover this solution for themselves. This ability to maintain a non-possessive relationship means your executives are free to explore their own thinking.
E: andrea@continuumcoaching.co.uk