Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching is a focused and effective way to help your senior leaders meet the specific challenges they face (1). Our coaching at Move Ahead is highly tailored to the needs of the individual in the context of your organisation and delivered to professionally accredited standards.

Why invest in Executive Coaching?

How do you ensure your people are engaged and committed to seeing the business succeed? Be aware that:

• Companies with highly engaged workforces demonstrate significantly higher growth in net income compared to those with lower scores (2)
• Businesses with high engagement scores have higher profitability than those that do not (2)
• People management practices are a better predictor of company performance than strategy, technology, research and development (3)

How does Executive Coaching work?

Success hinges on both parties understanding and working within the boundaries set: accountability is critical to growth:

• Contracting & Assessment: Dialogue to uncover success factors for the role; confidentiality agreement; expected outcomes, roles and responsibilities, timelines and financial terms,  interview, 360 feedback survey, behavioural profile, but may also include observation, the aim is to provide feedback that is in real-time, powerful, and linked to business events.
• Feedback and Action Planning: Agreed objectives reviewed, appropriate solutions explored. Coaching sessions take place approximately four times per month.
• Active Learning and Review: Dependent on the individual’s thinking and behavioural style, this may include action learning, role play, case study, simulation, shadowing, journaling and affirmation. Abridged version of initial assessment conducted approximately 6 months into the coaching assignment, to determine the impact of the process, recognise progress and address areas in which changes are still required.

Top Team Coaching

We help top executive teams to work more effectively together.  In times of rapid change and uncertainty, leaders can feel the need to deal with issues alone, while their peers and direct reports keep quiet for fear of losing their jobs.

Top Team Coaching encourages leaders to keep very open channels of communication, involvement and trust, to remember and involve top talent, not forget it.

We work with top team members to better understand their own and their colleagues’ unique communication and behavioural styles. In this way teams are better equipped to play to individual strengths and align efforts to achieve common goals. We work on the same principles of trust, self-awareness and accountability as described above, and our work is always focused directly on what is important to the client in real time.