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

Five Stages

• 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)

• Sharing perspectives
• Analysis
• Review of actions taken and their outcomes

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.