Executive Coaching

Executive coaching is a strategy that can accelerate the development of your key people – for example in areas such as negotiating skills, public speaking and presentations skills, people management, team building, delegation, and their time management or stress management skills.

You might consider coaching as a strategy to support your executives in their current role - or use coaching to prepare a staff member for stepping up into a management role. Coaching could be used to help one of the key people in your organisation prepare for a major forthcoming event. Coaching is a way of offering much more individualised and intensive guidance.

Brian Carroll is a qualified psychologist, training consultant and experienced coach who can help build the performance capability of your people. By way of example, through executive coaching Brian has helped people to :

1. prepare and rehearse for the delivery of a critical presentation (building their confidence in public speaking)
2. plan a strategy and develop some tactics for a major negotiation
3. improve their management techniques - for example their delegation, meeting facilitation, and performance counseling
4. develop greater self-awareness of their leadership style and the impact upon the people around them
5. improve their time management and stress management skills

Brian also has a small team of coaching specialists, who can be called upon  – depending upon the dynamics that will best “fit” the individual. Personal chemistry in the coaching relationship can be one of the critical success factors in the coaching process, so it is important to get the right “fit”.

The coaching process involves…..

1. Defining and agreeing desired outcomes from the coaching
2. Discussion and definition around the role of the coach and the exact nature of guidance and support to be offered
3. Identifying the coaching / development strategies to be used – which might include for example, structured 360 degree feedback and interpretation, observation, intensive skills practice, planned reading, workplace assignments, rehearsal and preparation for major events, structured self-assessment, etc

The coaching contract is reviewed regularly to ensure that it is delivering the type of progress that is sought by both the individual and their sponsor.