CEO National Coaching Register - The Coaching Process
This is a typical coaching programme
- The client (director or company) meet the coach for
1-2 hours to explore the potential to work together. There is no charge
for this meeting
- If desired, they will complete an Agreement to meet for
one, or a fixed or variable series of meetings
- The coach and client meet for the 1st session.
Normally at the coach's venue and typically for minimum 3 - 4 hours - so
the director is maximising his available time
- The director (client) sets the agenda for each
session to deal with their topics
- The coach may suggest other topics if the client
requires
- A 'conversation' takes place between them. The
coach's role is to encourage the client to discuss areas where
they want to change/improve aspects - like career, relationships,
profits, life/work balance, trading challenges etc
- The 'trusting' environment quickly leads the client
to raise many different topics; for example where they have promising
commercial opportunity - but may not know what to do; or an issue where
they feel stuck or uncomfortable and are not sure of the best
option.
- Often the process will involve the director using the
coach like a confidant to work out sensitive strategies that they
perhaps don't feel they can discuss with their board colleagues
- Results at this stage can be astounding and yet seem
to flow from a deceptively simple process
- Directors often experience euphoria at the new
options and vistas they discover and the opportunities they create
Notes.
- CEONCR coaches work to contractually explicit ethical standards; all
coaching is subject to rigorous qualified supervision
- An inviolate feature of the process is that the
conversations between coach and client are scrupulously confidential and
cannot be discussed with the Sponsor company unless the client
specifically authorises.
- At any point in the process, the client may decide
they have got all they need and end the contract
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