What makes you an Exceptional Executive?
Exceptional Executives lead with inner confidence and humility, respecting and supporting others while generating innovative solutions and excellent business results. They confidently engage with complexity.
The Challenge of Leadership
Current research indicates that Executives who are in demand are able to form deep relationships, with both internal and external stakeholders, including clients.
Inside the organisation, Executives connect with Directors and senior managers, peers, direct reports and key stakeholders across the business in engaging ways.
As the Leader you are attentive to the needs of others, communicating in compelling ways and reaching beyond superficial transactions.
- You co-create mutually beneficial trusting relationships.
- Your legacy includes positive relationships, generative problem solving and a reputation for achieving results.
- You use consultation and engagement to look to find the best solutions.
- You influence structures and cultures rather than trying to control people and resources
The increasing demand for soft leadership skills is supported by The World Economic Forum’s research, indicating that the top ten job skills in demand in 2020 were:
- Complex problem solving
- Critical Thinking
- Creativity
- People Management
- Coordinating with Others
- Emotional Intelligence
- Judgement and Decision Making
- Service Orientation
- Negotiation
- Cognitive Flexibility
Excellence in communication is fundamental in the application of each of these skill areas. As an Exceptional Executive, you will become even more successful when you heavily invest in your own emotional, social and conversational intelligence to increase your communication impact and influence. The investment of the entire leadership team and key staff increases ROI exponentially.
How do our Coaching Programs benefit you?
Executives completing Coaching Programs at Integrated Coaching Solutions (ICS) develop greater confidence for current and future success. You gain the awareness, competencies and skills to:
- Prime people for trust in all your communications and dealings
- Understand your communication patterns, become aware of your blind spots and avoid common leadership mistakes
- Move away from protective behaviours and encourage a “we-centric” culture that values inclusivity and diversity
- Connect, inspire, engage and lead people in achieving great business outcomes
- Transform your own leadership behaviours to receive recognition from key stakeholders, including peers and direct reports
- Gain clarity towards your own continuing development.
Organisations report greater collaboration and more effective working relationships as a result of senior managers participating in ICS Executive Coaching programs.
Participants find greater confidence and competency in their leadership competencies and behaviours. They empower and value others, releasing the potential of individuals and teams.
During your program we develop your own coaching skills so that you can start coaching members of your team using the learned models and tools.
Naturally, participants start to flourish and transform their organisations as they co-create with others in a framework of sharing and discovery.
“Robert has extensive knowledge of leadership coaching and a personalised approach to mentoring. His coaching technique enables identification of leadership improvement objectives and achievement of sustained changes in the desired leadership behaviours. The coaching program enables both the leader and stakeholders involved in the process to enhance their skills.”
Kristy Newman, Director Finance & Administration
James Brown Memorial Trust
Proven Tools and Experience
ICS Coaching Programs use a proven range of coaching tools and models, working with individual Executives through to national leadership coaching programs to facilitate leadership development, organisational transition and cultural shift.
We have been delivering Executive and Leadership Coaching Programs to commercial, Government and NGO senior leaders for nine years, coaching leaders from business including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, PIRSA, Origin and other Mining and Resources companies, James Brown Memorial Trust and other NGOs.
We use evidence based tools and frameworks validated by research and time tested delivery, including:
- 360° tools and workplace interviews, carrying out “self “and “stakeholder” analysis to identify executive coaching and leadership development needs before agreeing coaching goals.
- Progress surveys to measure “self “and “stakeholder” perceptions of outcome and progress at incremental stages.
Programs usually run from 6 months to 12 months
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Key Coaching Frameworks
Conversational Intelligence in Exceptional Executives Coaching Programs
Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) is a foundational component of each Exceptional Executive program, a complete process containing models and resources that deepens your understanding of communication and leads to discovery and sharing of new ideas. Based on ground breaking research and the work of
Judith E. Glaser and the CreatingWE ® Institute the framework and resources are underpinned by learning from neuroscience.
Our coaching programs:
- Identify communication patterns, showing barriers to effective communication and the underlying neuroscience that moves you from thinking “I” to creating a culture of “We”.
- Facilitate the development of C-IQ skills and the capability and mindset to you shape your future, achieve your aspirations and create business success.
Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) will assist you with:
- Tapping into the executive function (prefrontal cortex) within your brain to turn your intention into impact
- Dealing with historical distrust and negative thinking to prime you and others for trusting relationships
- Resolving conflict and moving into sharing and discovery
- Creating opportunities for transformation of individuals, teams and organisations
- Understanding how to move away from protective behaviours to embrace partnering behaviours
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Working with complex systems – gain understanding of your business as a living system and the impact of organisational structures and culture.
Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching
Integrated Coaching Solutions is certified to run The Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching Programs. Sometimes the behaviours and beliefs that have helped us achieve success are no longer relevant and even prevent us from attaining the next level of success. Many leaders know what it takes to be a good leader, yet demonstrating it on a daily basis and convincing our biggest critics (including our self) can be the biggest hurdles to achieving recognition and opportunity for promotion.
The Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching Program has enabled successful people to lead more effectively through long-term change in leadership behaviour by using a clear and robust methodology that is highly effective and time efficient.
The Stakeholder Centered Coaching process guarantees measurable leadership growth and behavioural change. There are clear benefits for the leader, the team and other managers who become the stakeholders in the leadership development process as they contribute to business success. It effectively empowers your stakeholders to be the key to understanding your own leadership patterns and behaviours and engages them on a journey to your leadership growth.
More information can be found about the process at: http://sccoaching.com/
We also run Executive Career Coaching Programs – where you learn how to:
- be recognised for your talents and leadership strengths,
- create a great impression and transform the perceptions of all your stakeholders
- be noticed for further development and selected for aspired roles
The program increased my effectiveness in applying for vacancies and thus increasing my efficient use of time. I feel it is now possible to produce effective and above par applications for vacancies within both the public and private sector job market.
Richard Brudenell, Head of the Police Armoury Facility | Operational Equipment & Warehousing
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“The Conversational Intelligence framework and tools are helping me to transform my workplace conversations from low trust and protective interactions to high trust collaborative conversations with people. Engaging the resources assists me to achieve a more transformational level of conversation characterised by mutual insight, wisdom and trust. Conversational Intelligence is having a significant impact on the quality of my relationships with colleagues and allowing me to feel better about myself while achieving innovative outcomes with my team and stakeholders. Even better, Conversational Intelligence is having a positive impact on my conversations outside of work as well”
Neil Ducker, National Executive – Technical Client Support for a large media organisation