Leadership & Executive Coaching
Leadership and executive coaching starts with understanding the unique strengths and development opportunities of each leader, helping them build deeper self-insight and stronger leadership capabilities. Development goals are tied directly to your business goals, so leadership growth translates into organizational performance.
Growth that shows up in the business.
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Grounded in a real understanding of each leader's strengths, development opportunities, and blind spots, not a generic curriculum.
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Development goals tied directly to organizational performance, so coaching moves the metrics that matter to you.
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Delivered by certified coaches and organizational psychologists, for emerging and senior leaders alike.
Four ways we coach.
Coaching packages typically run 6 to 12 months and include coaching hours, alignment sessions with key stakeholders, and the option of assessments for deeper self-insight:
- Executive Leadership Coaching: executive coaches work with vice-president and C-suite level executives, focused on the leadership skills that enhance organizational performance and reach business goals.
- Leadership Coaching: anyone with direct or indirect reports can benefit, from first-time supervisors through manager and director-level leaders, uncovering blind spots and building the skills of effective leadership.
- Coaching for Emerging & Aspiring Leaders: for high potentials readying their skills and emotional intelligence to step into people leadership, an investment that also increases engagement and retention.
- Team & Group Coaching: facilitated coaching for executive teams or groups of leaders that builds collaboration, cooperation, and trust, drawing on the insights and complementary skill sets of each member.
The coaching process.
Every engagement is shaped by the organization's and the leader's needs. In general, it moves through five stages:
- Assess & understand. We map current skills, strengths, development opportunities, and blind spots through an in-depth interview and a suite of psychometric assessments.
- Craft the plan. Together we build an actionable development plan with clear, measurable goals, and the supports needed to reach them.
- Align with the business. An alignment session with the leader's supervisor, and sometimes HR, to share feedback and secure support for the plan.
- Coach toward the goals. Ongoing coaching sessions target the specific goals set out in the development plan, providing accountability and developmental support.
- Debrief & measure. We summarize and debrief overall progress, including a re-assessment of skills to measure growth, often closing with an alignment session and feedback to support ongoing development.
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Assess & understand
We map current skills, strengths, development opportunities, and blind spots through an in-depth interview and a suite of psychometric assessments.
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Craft the plan
Together we build an actionable development plan with clear, measurable goals, and the supports needed to reach them.
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Align with the business
An alignment session with the leader's supervisor, and sometimes HR, to share feedback and secure support for the plan.
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Coach toward the goals
Ongoing coaching sessions target the specific goals set out in the development plan, providing accountability and developmental support.
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Debrief & measure
We summarize and debrief overall progress, including a re-assessment of skills to measure growth, often closing with an alignment session and feedback to support ongoing development.
Skills leadership coaching can build.
A coaching engagement can strengthen a wide range of leadership capabilities, including:
- Navigating organizational politics.
- Effective communication.
- Conflict management skills.
- Feedback and difficult conversations.
- Emotional intelligence.
- Team leadership.
- Leading hybrid and remote teams.
- Relationship building and stakeholder management.
- Strategic thinking.
- Executive presence.
- Confident decision making.
- Leading difficult employees or personality types.
Frequently asked questions.
Leadership coaching is valuable for executives, managers, and emerging leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills and improve their effectiveness at work. It's also helpful for anyone stepping into a new leadership role, managing teams through change, or preparing for more senior leadership responsibilities.
The cost of leadership coaching varies depending on the level of the leader being coached, the number of coaching hours included in a package, and whether psychometric assessments are used. We are happy to provide a quote based on your specific needs, so please reach out on our contact page to connect with someone from our coaching team.
Executive coaching involves understanding the strengths and development opportunities of each unique leader, helping them build deeper self-insight and improve their leadership capabilities. Development goals are influenced by business goals, with a focus on leadership growth tied directly to organizational performance. Further, the coach holds the leader accountable for progressing on the plan, providing feedback and challenging them when needed.
A wide range of leadership skills can be developed through coaching, including emotional intelligence, navigating organizational politics, effective communication, conflict management, feedback and difficult conversations, team leadership, leading hybrid and remote teams, relationship building and stakeholder management, strategic thinking, executive presence, confident decision making, and leading difficult employees or personality types.
Coaching engagements vary based on the organization's and leader's needs, but in general they move through five stages: assessing and understanding current skills, strengths, development opportunities, and blind spots through an in-depth interview and psychometric assessments; crafting an actionable development plan with clear, measurable goals and supports; an alignment session with the leader's supervisor, and sometimes HR, to provide feedback and support for the plan; ongoing coaching sessions that target the goals set in the plan; and summarizing and debriefing overall progress, which may include a closing alignment session with feedback.
Most coaching engagements run 6 to 12 months. The right length depends on the leader's level, the number of coaching hours in the package, and whether psychometric assessment is included. We scope all of that with you before the work begins, so the timeline and the investment are clear up front.
Please see our other Services for Organizations to learn more about our range of services, including training, speaking, career transition and outplacement, climate and engagement surveys, and more.
Where we work
We coach leaders one-on-one and in groups, in person in Calgary and Toronto, or we can travel to your location in North America. We also offer virtual coaching wherever you are located.
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Invest in the people who lead.
Looking to invest in your talent through individual or group coaching? Contact us today and we'll shape a coaching package that best suits your leadership development needs.