Our coaching engagements are designed to strengthen the leadership capabilities of your high-potentials, high-performers, and seasoned leaders. Coaching can support your talent development initiatives in several areas:

• Investing in key talent, high-potentials, or high-performers

• Closing performance gaps that are inhibiting leadership success

• Contributing to succession planning initiatives

• On-boarding a leader to successfully integrate him/her to a new role and/or organization

• Supporting an organizational transformation (culture, company acquisition or merger, growth)

Closing The Gap – Coaching Focus

We can help define the skills and competencies needed to reach the destination, using client data and/or JLPA's recommended assessments. Examples of the common areas for competency development include:

• Strategic leadership

• Building the vision 

• Leading change/change management

• Interpersonal skills (trust, communication, vulnerability, listening, presence)

• Self-awareness

• Personal brand/personal value proposition

• Networking, political savvy

• Cross-cultural awareness, diversity

• Executive presence/effective presentation

• Storytelling

• Influence

• Emotional intelligence/social intelligence

• Planning, delegation, priority management

• Innovation, creativity, decision making

• Performance management, feedback

Defining the Destination – Business Drivers

We begin by understanding the strategic goals and business imperatives behind each coaching engagement.

• What does success look like?

• What needs to be accomplished?

• What is the destination?

• What is the ROI?

Mapping the Journey – Coaching Process

We provide each leader with a Leader's Development Map that sets out the coaching journey using our Executive Coaching C4 Map (Connect, Cultivate, Coach, Close) process. At a high level, the deliverables are as follows:

• Launching the engagement with key stakeholder(s)

• Selecting a coach

• Creating a performance baseline from 360 interviews and self-assessments

• Exploring, practicing, reflecting, and assessing via coaching sessions

• Developing SMART goals and the leader's development plan

• Meeting with key stakeholder(s) to review progress – engagement, midpoint and end

• Measuring progress and building a plan for staying the course

Measure Success  – Targeted Outcomes

Whether the goal is to increase self-awareness, strengthen specific leadership styles, skills, and behaviors, or to accelerate the development of overall leadership competencies, our focus is to accelerate a leader's journey, which translates into:

• Changed behaviors

• Quicker, bolder results

• Strengthened performance and productivity

• Self-awareness

• Clearer vision and strategy

• More effective communication

• Improved confidence, boldness

• Expanded and improved relationships