Executive and Business Coaching

Coaching typically begins with a personal interview (either face-to-face or by teleconference call) to assess the client’s current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish specific desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted on the telephone, or face-to-face if location and time allow.

Each coaching session usually deals with a specific issue or goal. Between scheduled coaching sessions, the client will implement specific actions that support the achievement of their goals. The coach may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models, to support the client’s thinking and actions.

Coaching can be supplemented by e-mail and/or telephone communication to provide just-in-time support on specific issues, problems or opportunities. Coaching programmes usually last for six months but the duration of the coaching relationship varies depending on the client’s personal needs and preferences.

A variety of concepts, models and principles drawn from the behavioural sciences, management literature, spiritual traditions and/or the arts and humanities, may be incorporated into the coaching conversation in order to increase the client’s self-awareness and awareness of others, foster shifts in perspective, promote fresh insights, provide new frameworks for looking at opportunities and challenges, and energize and inspire the client’s forward actions.

Clients interested in executive coaching should contact New Projections for an initial discussion of their requirements. Once these have been established a proposal can be prepared.