"We work on ourselves in order to help others, and also we help others in order to work on ourselves." - Pema Chödrön
Coaching high powered executives demands exceptional coaching. Behind every exceptional coach is an exceptional coach! Effective coaches, like effective leaders, must have the ability to motivate others, grasp complex issues, act with purpose and remain focused on achieving clearly defined business outcomes. They must be alive in the moment, with the strength and courage to face an organizational leader in a time of crisis and speak the previously unspoken. Coaches need to demonstrate behavioral flexibility to offer challenge and support, to know when to listen and when to speak out. They must be able to step into the unknown with their client and dance in the moment.
The ability of a coach to facilitate lasting, sustainable development in leaders rests on the presence a coach brings to the coaching relationship. Once the coach has mastered the skills of bringing their own attention to the present, they can begin to develop the same capability in their clients. Coaches need to demonstrate resourcefulness, with strong connections to themselves, to others and to their environment. It is critical they continue developing themselves at their own learning edge.
Coach Mentoring and Supervision
The best way to develop your coaching skills is to be coached. If you are coaching others and you don’t have a coach yourself, my best advice is for you to find one. As you already know, a coach will accelerate your development allowing you to offer even more to your clients.
As a coach, I request a huge commitment from my clients and it can be easy for me to forget the territory, the emotions involved, the resistance to change and the expanding possibilities. Coaching keeps me grounded in the experience of being coached, enabling me to understand deeply what my clients maybe experiencing. Having a mentor coach is an invaluable asset for second opinions, new perspectives and fresh approaches as I coach my own clients.
MAX Executive Coaching provides mentoring support for other coaches at all stages of learning. Depending on your goals and experience, mentor coaching may include any or all of the following:
- Improving business systems, marketing, and business development
- Learning to embody what you espouse as a coach
- Support on methodology and tools to use with your own coaching clients
- Working with your coaching style to maintain and improve effectiveness
- Review of audio tapes, or live "shadow" coaching
- Sounding board for working through challenges
- Mind space to reflect and gain new insights
- Introduction to self reflective practice
- Ensuring that coaching interactions add client value and ROI
- Benchmarking for quality
Mentor coaching will begin with an intake session and pre-work designed to explore your needs, including a questionnaire for coaching capability. We can then design a mentor relationship specifically with your goals in mind. You will have ample time to reflect on all aspects of your work and benefit from insightful support.
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Mentor Coach on Call
Mentor coaching how and when you want it. This flexible service aims to offer you a coaching supervision session within 24 working hours of your call. Sessions range from 30 – 60 minutes.
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Mentor Coaching for ICF Certification
We also provide coaching with a PCC mentor coach to meet the certification requirement for the PCC level. This service includes an intake session, 10 hours of mentor coaching around your coaching skills, review and feedback on two recorded coaching conversations, and provision of documentation for your ICF application.
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Please note: We hold all client material in the strictest confidence, and abide by both the AC and the ICF standards of ethical conduct in our work.