Executive Coaching
Because there’s always more
WHAT IS EXECUTIVE COACHING?
A customised, holistic and inspirational development process. It is intended to accelerate an executive’s business results and effectiveness as a leader through the transformation of their behaviours and, by extension, those of their colleagues. It is based on a collaborative relationship between the executive, his/her key stakeholders and an executive coach.
Whether a leader is seeking success with a challenging new role, or managing a major business transition, our coaching will support and develop them.
WE UNDERSTAND
That from a broader perspective of value creation, your organisation may have several issues and needs:
- Defining the competencies (behaviours and abilities) required of leaders if the organisation is to execute its business strategy. In particular, those competencies required for significant impact to the business, short and/or long term.
- Identifying those individual leaders requiring these specific competencies the most.
- An understanding of how expert coaching can help build those critical competencies in this particular group of people.
OUR APPROACH
Our coaching is:
✦ Customised to the needs of each executive in the
context of both their role and the organisation.
✦ Focused on improving individual performance.
✦ Focused on the needs of the business, e.g. achieving
and sustaining a long-term, positive behavioural change
which will benefit the organisation.
OUR COACHING
Our coaching is powerful because we:
✦ Use the renowned and ground-breaking Co-Active®
coaching model by CTI (ICF-accredited).
✦ Have extensive business experience as senior leaders
ourselves.
✦ Understand the importance of delivering tangible
impact in world-class organisations.
Board level leadership coaching
Board level positions invariably entail a heavy workload with scarce time to explore issues in depth. Senior leaders have far fewer colleagues with whom they can openly discuss highly sensitive and complex issues.
Oxygen works with senior executives on a fully confidential basis to explore and address real issues and concerns. We focus on behaviours, goals and outcomes to ensure that there is tangible impact on their performance and the organisation.
Top Talent coaching
The most talented people are the most valuable asset in any organisation. Coaching ensures that their performance is optimal and is a clear signal that they are valued and supported in their evolution towards the most senior leadership roles.
It also provides a confidential forum in consider the best route forward. It has a significant impact on the efficacy, motivation and development of your leaders and, by extension, their retention.
Senior female leadership coaching
Female leaders do not have different development needs from men, but do have different contexts. Frequently a minority, they can feel isolated and may have few, if any, role models at their level or above. Self-awareness may also become harder to tap into as a distinct minority. We are experienced in supporting and challenging female leaders in global organisations.
First 100 days coaching
Leaders new-to-role, especially if also new to the organisation need to be ‘up and running’ as fast as possible. This is especially true if they are:
✦ to introduce change into the organisation
✦ new to their level, particularly if at board level.
✦ making a transition to a new geography and/or function
Our proactive coaching will support them in navigating the multi-layered complexity inherent in any large multinational organisation and making the behavioural shifts needed to be highly effective.
Transition coaching
Transition coaching supports senior leaders during periods of intense organisational transition and change. Leading change can be particularly demanding and challenging and a leader’s own needs can often be sacrificed as they focus on attending to the needs of the organisation throughout the process.
Transition coaching supports leaders on a short-term basis by providing the time, perspective and balance to think, plan and manage effectively in a challenging context.
We have extensive experience as senior leaders ourselves and of working with leaders in organisations undergoing intense transition.
Expat coaching
Moving, settling, working and flourishing overseas can present significant challenges, especially as a family. Beyond the unfamiliarity and intense workload associated with adapting to and succeeding in a new role, there are numerous other changes – professional, domestic, cultural and even situational.
Our coaching supports executives as well as spouses in meeting these challenges head-on – both pre-departure and post-arrival. An executive will find it difficult to perform at their best if they, their partner or their family are not comfortable and fulfilled in their new life.
Our coaches are exceedingly well qualified to provide coaching to expatriates and their partners. Our coaches have lived and worked abroad with family. We have personally experienced and can fully relate to the specific transition and cultural challenges that can arise.