Coaching may address:
- Transforming from a manager to an executive as delineated by Michael Watkins:
- Specialist to Generalist
- Analyst to integrator
- Tactician to Strategist
- Bricklayer to Architect
- Problem solver to Agenda Setter
- Warrior to Diplomat
- Supporting Cast Member to Lead Role
- Specific leadership competencies
- Professional development
- Other areas of focus and value as indicated by leaders and their organization
- Other coaching services may include assessments, surveys, data reviews, team observation, values clarification, dialogue, enhancing distinctions, identifying plans of action, examining assumptions and habits, asking clarifying questions, enhancing the use of empowering language, engaging in self-awareness exercises and behavioral practices, and other developmental strategies.
- Team development
- Navigating Change
- Conflict management
- Interpersonal Communications
Goal Setting
Leaders agree to establish with Lynne their goals for the engagement at the start of the engagement.
These will include the goals and issues that leaders would like addressed through coaching and the desired results that they would like to achieve through the coaching relationship.
Upon completion of the coaching sessions, the coaching outcomes will be assessed against the established goals.
Lynne’s Coaching Process
Throughout the working relationship, Lynne will engage in purposeful conversations which further leaders’ desired goals and outcomes.
Leaders can count on Lynne to be honest and straightforward in asking questions and making requests. They can also count on Lynne offering challenges and requests that will stretch them. She will help them increase their self-awareness while bringing objectivity and accountability to the relationship.
Through insightful questions and direct feedback, she will help her clients transform as leaders and human beings.
Tools and Processes
Below are tools and processes that Lynne may use in her coaching process based on the individual needs of the client:
- Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator
- Thomas Kilman Conflict Styles Assessment
- EQ Emotional Intelligence Assessment
- The Enneagram Assessment
- Values Assessment
- Life Success
- Strengthsfinder
- 360 1:1 personal interviews with direct reports, leaders, peers, and other appropriate stakeholders
- 360 Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Practices Inventory
- 360 Center for Creative Leadership’s Executive Dimensions