Senior Leader & Executive Coaching
What Coaches Do
- Help clients set larger, better, more rewarding personal and professional goals
- Speak with each client at least weekly to help them set strategies and take action
- Ask more of clients than they-or others-might ask of themselves
Coaching May Be Appropriate If You Want To:
- Generate a plan to generate better results
- Reach goals faster
- Excel at a new profession or position
- Make significant changes
- Improve performance
- Develop and implement career plans
- Accelerate organizational change
- Get ahead professionally
- Make better decisions
- Have someone with whom to collaborate
- Reduce stress and energy drains
- Increase income or revenue
- Become a better manager, executive or business person
- Find more satisfaction and joy in your life
- Take the action you need and want to take
- Become a more powerful leader
Formats
- Individual Coaching by Telephone
- Individual Coaching in Person
- Team coaching in Person
- Most coaching is conducted by telephone. At Lawton Associates we recommend 45-60 minute coaching session three times per month for a minimum of three months. Coaching engagements typically extend to six-nine months, sometimes longer.
Results
Coaching is designed to help executives improve their learning and performance, and enhance their quality of life. Examples include:
- Enhanced productivity
- Team priority setting
- Improved personal, team and organizational performance
- Personal priority/goal setting
- Career focus and transition planning
- Removal of barriers to success
- Enhanced communication
- Project management for results
- Stronger vision
The Relationship in Coaching
A coach relates to the executive client as a partner. A coach does not relate to the client from a position of an expert, authority, or healer.
Coach and client together choose the focus, format, and desired outcomes for their work. The client does not relinquish the responsibility for creating and maintaining these nor does the coach take full responsibility for them.
How Coaching Works
A key difference between consulting and coaching is that as a coach we partner with you to help you clarify your goals and support you in achieving them. Each executive client is unique. There are specific needs that require specific and unique work. There is, however, some basic steps used in the coaching relationship. These include:
- Conducting assessments related to such things as personality, communication style, and thinking preferences; conducting life reviews; and, clarifying values and priorities
- Establishing expectations/goals for the coaching relationship
- During each session focusing on the present
- Creating possibilities and developing action steps
- Identifying and seeking ways to overcome barriers to successful action
- Monitoring/tracking results
- Adjusting plans and support as necessary
- Celebrating success
Nature of Coaching
Coaching concentrates primarily on the present and future. Coaching does not focus on the past or on the past's impact on the present.
Coaching uses information from the client's past to clarify where the client is today. It does not depend on resolution of the past to move the client forward. Coaching can be used concurrently with psychotherapeutic work. It is not used as a substitute for psychotherapeutic work. Your coach is not a therapist. Advice, opinions, or suggestions are occasionally offered in coaching. Both parties understand that the client is free to accept or decline what is offered and takes the ultimate responsibility for action. The coach is not discouraged from offering advice, opinions or suggestions on occasion.
A coach makes a request of the client to promote action toward the client's desired outcome. A coach does not make such requests in order to fix the client's problem or understand the client's past.
Fees for Service
- Individual coaching (via telephone and/or in-person) fees available
- Team coaching fees available
- On-site coaching fees available
To arrange coaching services, contact John Bennett at (704) 660-6000 or by e-mail.
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