EXECUTIVE STRATEGY COACHING

DEFINING YOUR STRATEGY FOR OWNING THE FUTURE

As an executive leader, you alone are tasked with charting your organization's course into the future.   And doing so in a way that ensures it becomes – and remains – the driving force inside its markets.

But quite often what executives find is that they alone – either as individuals or as a team – simply do not possess all of the unique insights and perspectives needed to be able to definitively charter such a high-confidence course into the future.   They need additional – highly-informed, external – insights and perspectives – insights and perspectives not shackled by the status quo of their existing industry, and which are therefore able to throw off the blinders of current practices so as to envision new ways forward – ones optimally suited for the future.   Indeed, the real point here is to not only know how to navigate the future, but rather how to be the ones actually shaping and defining this new future.   That is the real end goal here for business leaders.

This is precisely where we come in.   We're seasoned executive strategy professionals who bring to the table the highly-informed external insights and perspectives that executives so desperately need.   We engage with these leaders and their teams in a direct one-on-one coaching capacity – as their dedicated future strategy coaches – so that we can impart to them these new insights and perspectives in a way they can fully internalize.

In this capacity, we begin with an exploratory dialogue together, where we seek to understand your organization's current status, where you wish to take the future via this organization, and what you perceive as being the organization's largest obstacles to doing that and why so, as well as its most important opportunities for doing that and why so.

We then spend some time on our own undertaking certain research and otherwise preparing specific thoughts and insights for you, so that through our subsequent dialogues we can in fact lead, coach, and guide you – and your executive team – into the steps that will be needed to shape the future as you so desire.

We then reengage with you – either as individual leaders, or together as an executive team – to spend time having these conversations and discussions where, using a direct coaching approach, we walk you through the mental journey needed to arrive at the steps required to shape the future as you desire.   This will typically include certain foundational steps (the business' purpose & charter), strategic steps (specific directions and initiatives), organizational steps (structures, roles, processes, enablers, etc.), and financial steps (budget allocations, etc.).   Depending on the scope of the steps involved, this can require some time to complete, and therefore it is often spread out over several discrete coaching sessions taking place over a period of time, until at last we have finally completed the journey together.

The end result of this is an internal plan of action on your part where your team has total clarity on the foundational, strategic, organizational, and financial steps you need to take in order to ultimately have your organization drive and shape its future in the direction you want.   This brings far higher confidence in your organization's ability to become – and remain – the primary driving force in its industry and markets... the ultimate pinnacle of market leadership.

THE ENGAGEMENT


The Executive Strategy Coaching Engagement typically follows these steps:

  1. We begin by listening to you, as senior leaders, to understand your organization's current status, where you want to drive the future via this organization, and what you perceive as being the organization's biggest obstacles to, and opportunities for, doing that, and in each case why so.
  2. We then spend some time on our own preparing our specific thoughts and insights, including how we will weave those into our discussions, so that through our dialogue together we can in fact lead, coach, and guide you – and your executive team – into the steps that will be required to shape the future as you so desire.
  3. We then spend time with you – either as individuals or together as an executive team – having these conversations and discussions where, using a direct coaching approach, we walk you through the mental journey needed to yourselves arrive at the steps required to shape the future as you desire.   Depending on the scope of the steps involved, this can require some time to complete, and so is often divided into several discrete sessions carried out over a period of time, until eventually we have completed this journey together.
  4. As your executive team begins to implement these steps in the organization, we make ourselves available as desired to assist you with oversight and correctional inputs, giving our guidance as needed to ensure that progress is being made in the right directions and at the right pace.
  5. Adjacent to this, and as needed, we can also be engaged for other, more specific consulting activities, such as, for example, detailed research and strategy development or detailed organizational structure design.   Ultimately we want to ensure that your organization succeeds in implementing the prescribed steps, so that it can in fact drive its future as needed.

Engage us for Executive Strategy Coaching.

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