Getting Started with Executive or Leadership Coaching

If you are thinking of working with me as your Executive/Leadership Coach, I invite you to spend some time with these questions.

Indicators you might be a good candidate for coaching:

• You are concerned about your effectiveness.
• You just entered a new role.
• You’re about to leave a role.
• Being a leader isn’t fun any more.
• You’re feeling out of control.
• You’re working harder and getting fewer results.
• The people around you are not responding as you would like them to.
• And many more…….

Questions:

1. If you only answer three questions, make it these:
   1. What keeps you awake at night
   2. What needs to be discussed in your organization and yet is never mentioned?
   3. Why do you seek coaching now?
2. If you want to start working now, try these:
   1. What is your role: what is it REALLY, regardless of title and job description? There could easily be a difference.
   2. Your history in that and previous roles: what has worked, what has been a challenge? Understanding lessons from the past guides current exploration.
   3. Your surroundings: what’s going on around you, why it is changing? Your work always exists in a context.
   4. Other players: Who is around you? What is your relationship? What do you think of their work? None of us acheives our objectives alone.
   5. The future: What do you see? What do you want? How will you get there? We start from where you are, but coaching is about facilitating the future.
   6. Balance: What will it take for you to be sound in body, mind and spirit so you can do your best?
3. And for some serious reflection before we meet:
   1. Where are you finding that stakeholders have to adjust their plans, values, relationships or ways of working to make progress?
   2. Where are stresses to quickly solve problems at odds with the problem’s complexity?
   3. Where could you hand over work (instead of controlling it directly) to those individuals affected by the problem so they could fully engage the issue?
   4. Where might a shift in authority be needed to achieve a goal?
   5. What shifts in perspective might YOU need in order to get the job done?
   6. Where are there gaps between aspirations and the reality of the situation?
   7. Where is strong authority needed to keep the issue from overwhelming the resilience of the group affected?

Do these questions and issues resonate with you?  Contact Sam to explore coaching: Via email at sam@sammagill.com, by completing this form or by phoning 425-787-0846.