Cross-Cultural Coaching
for Executives and Managers
ITAP provides individualized, custom or one-on-one support to enable executives to be more effective in global organizations.
We offer a goal-oriented, personally-tailored, confidential learning alliance between a professional coach and the executive. Coaching:
- Gives the executive the opportunity to share personal concerns
- Helps the executive gain perspectives from a coach who is outside the organizational politics
- Requires a collaborative relationship between the executive and the coach.
NOTE: The organization and the executive must be committed to coaching for it to be successful.
One-on-one, confidential coaching:
- Provides a supportive relationship
- Offers confidential advice
- Focuses on the specific developmental objectives of the executive
- Enables the executive to define strategic initiatives or key priorities
- Facilitates analysis of the impact of multiple options
- Assists the executive in creating an action plan, including planned steps, their possible impact, and contingency planning
- Helps examine obstacles and barriers to achieving goals
Four Stages
1. Develop a contract between the executive and the coach
2. Assessment and Analysis
- Collecting, validating and analyzing information
- Assessment/data collection and analysis
- Administer questionnaire or conduct customized interviews to gather confidential and specific information on how the client is perceived
- Identifying the issues to be addressed/outcomes desired
- Defining timeframes for coaching, length of service
- Outlining approaches for sessions (Length, frequency, content framework)
3. Coaching sessions
- Sharing perspectives
- Analysis
- Review of actions taken and their outcomes
4. Updates for sponsor
5. Making development recommendations
Approach
Required pre-work assessment - Culture in the Workplace Questionnaire™
A 60-minute introductory session
- Review of results of the assessment
- Establishment of objectives for the coach and the executive
- Definition of timelines (how long each session will last and what milestones/outcomes are the targets)
- Summary of these agreements / charter draft by the coach, approved by the executive
Data collection using questionnaires or structured interviews
Two to Four sessions per month, of one and a half to two hours; at least half should be in person
- Focus on executive responsibilities and how to effectively apply them
- Review issues since last session
- Review outcomes of actions planned in the previous session
- Review the lessons learned or observations to support these lessons since the previous session
- Preparation for upcoming challenges
- New approaches and their potential impact (organizationally, senior staff, employees)
- Contingency planning (what if the new approaches do not work)
- Impact of executive behavior and decisions on immediate staff and their subordinates
Ongoing telephonic/email coaching (telephone or email when you need a question answered) billed at normal rates.
For a list of ITAP International's Executive Coaches, their backgrounds and areas of expertise, click here.
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