EXECUTIVE COACHING

At Garner Executive Performance we provide a service for executives and high-potential managers producing results well beyond those realized from straightforward training.

Training is an essential part of any employee’s or manager’s development It provides the participant with the skill, knowledge and competencies to carry out the tasks that their role demands. But an educated manager does not necessarily make an effective leader. Why? Because so much of an executive’s success or failure depends on leadership ‘behaviour’, not job competencies.

At Executive Performance we provide solutions in the form of executive coaching. We use sophisticated tools to accurately measure a leader’s effectiveness. Armed with the feedback from the measurement tools we are able to specifically target the behaviours that prevent the individual from reaching peak performance. Through a series of one-hour sessions, spread over a 6 month period, our experienced executive coaches take the client on a journey of self-discovery and self-realisation, progressively identifying negative behaviours and replacing them with positive ones. The manager is guided by the coach throughout the programme and will be challenged to try new behaviours and approaches that will improve performance in critical areas especially:

• Creating a vision
• Developing followership
• Implementing the vision
• Following through
• Achieving results
• Team playing

All these attributes have proven over time to be the crucial ingredients of an effective leader and it is these that Executive Performance’s instruments measure and that the individual will work with the coach to improve.

Garner Executive Performance’s coaching solutions can be successfully applied in the following situations:

• On-Board Coaching - assists newly hired executives to launch into their role with guidance and support, enabling them to become an effective contributor much faster than they would if left to grapple with unfamiliar territory on their own.

• High Potentials - often managers are seen as highly skilled and competent but not viewed as leader because of something in the style or behaviour that get in the way of promotion. Coaching helps tackle those issues and readies them for greater responsibility.

• Coaching Performance Issues - sometimes successful managers who are promoted to leadership positions fail, because they cannot let go of old habits that worked in their previous roles but are counter productive in the new leadership role. Coaching helps a leader identify where things are going wrong and partners with the executive to design an action plan that develops new and more effective leadership habits and behaviours.

• Developing Leadership Skills - strengthens emotional intelligence and interpersonal behaviours, thereby improving peer interaction and resolving conflicts that negatively impact organisational culture and performance.

• Stretch Assignment Coaching - creates a ‘safety net’ for executives who are given critical assignments with intense time, budget and outcome expectations.