Countdown to the summit…
The ten-week countdown has begun to the Conference Board’s 2015 Coaching Summit. The Summit will begin with a pre-conference event on March 9 with the keynotes and breakout sessions on March 10 & 11. On March 10, Dr. John Hoover from Partners in Human Resources International will join Dr. Harris Ginsberg of Pfizer, Dr, Eric Hieger of ADP, and Dr. David DeFilippo of BNY University in discussing The Next Big Conversation – The Leader and Organization as Co-Clients. This panel is designed to introduce and discuss the significance of keeping the voice and interests of the organization alive and involved in executive coaching engagements.
Coach in the Context of the Organization
It seems improbable that organizations would conduct expensive executive coaching engagements without an enterprise-wide coaching framework or a formalized reporting structure and protocol that aligns coaching work with the organization’s established leadership principles, values, or competencies. It also seems implausible that organizations would not capture and analyze the structured interview 360 data and information from coaching reports (without compromising coaching client confidentiality) to identify organizational leadership trends and development opportunities.
Yet, organizations with formalized executive coaching structures and processes like those above, even if only to ensure consistent quality from one engagement to the next and/or from one geographic location to another, are the exception, not the rule. As the Conference Board points out, Organizations have much to gain by moving toward contextual alignment in coaching and acknowledging that the true client is the relationship between the leader being coached and the organization. According to Hoover, the reasons are clear:
- Executive coaching must produce a benefit for the sponsoring organization that is consistently equal to the benefit for the leader being coached.
- The leader being coached and organization must be considered co-clients to ensure the voices of both are heard and honored in coaching engagements.
- As multiple engagements take place across the global enterprise, the leadership patterns and trends that emerge must be captured, analyzed, and reported without compromising confidentiality to gain full organizational value.
For each of the ten weeks leading up to the Conference Board’s 2015 Coaching Summit, Human Talent Network will feature one of the Ten Commandments of Contextual Coaching. The first commandment of Contextual Coaching—which is to say, coaching in the context of the organization’s culture and strategic agenda—is:
Coach in the Context of the Organization
This means aligning what leaders do best with what the organization needs most. Enterprise-wide alignment between leaders and corporate strategy is critical to successful executive development and optimal execution on the organization’s most pressing organizational needs.
Without compromising any of the confidentiality, craft, and reflective practice that help make executive coaching the most powerful (and expensive) individual leadership development intervention available, elevating the voice and presence of the organization in coaching engagements is essential to maximizing the value of the organization’s coaching investment.
If the goal of executive coaching is to build the leaders who will build the business, the approach to developing leaders, whatever it is, must be informed by the context of the organization. The symbiotic relationship between individual leaders and the organizations that employ them must be defined and documented in the context of the collective. If organizations that sponsor executive coaching engagements hope to maximize the benefits of developing their leaders, the leadership development processes, protocols, and guiding principles must align with and thereby advance the strategic agenda of the organization.
Traditional ad hoc executive coaching engagements that are not contextually aligned with the strategic agenda of the organization are inherently myopic. The odds are poor that a broader organizational agenda will be well served by executive coaching, strategic team alignment, or any leadership development activity when executive coaches or group process facilitators’ peripheral visions are too narrow to see the full organizational spectrum. Chances are slight that detached and isolated leadership development activities will add significant enterprise-wide value.
The Ten Commandments of Contextual Coaching each outline one dimension of coaching through an organizational lens. To establish the organizational context within which the aligned coaching will take place, talent strategy designers must:
- Establish criteria for selecting; training, and supervising executive coaches
- Establish enterprise frameworks within which coaching engagements take place
- Establish reporting and data analysis processes and procedures to ensure coaching consistency, alignment with the sponsoring organization’s strategic agenda, and data mining opportunities
All of this work, including nuanced sub-processes, must be based upon and aligned with the sponsoring organization’s established leadership development principles, values, or competencies.
Next week, Contextual Coaching Commandment Number Two examines more deeply the alignment between what people do best and what organizations need most:
Coach with the Art of Alignment: People, performance, and profitability.
Countdown to the Conference Board Coaching Summit – March 9, 10, 11, 2015 to be held at the Westin New York at Times Square. For conference information and registration instructions, contact www.conference-board.org
Photo by Chris Hunkeler
8 Comments
Leonore Lindell
Hі, I think your blog migҺt be having browseeг compatibility issueѕ.
When I loⲟk at your blog іn Opera, it lօokѕ fine ƅbut wɦеn opening
in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping. I just wanted to give
you a quick Һeɑds up! Othᥱr then that, great blog!
xem chi tiet
When I initially left a comment I appear to have clicked on the
-Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now
every time a comment is added I receive four
emails with the exact same comment. There has to be
a way you are able to remove me from that service?
Many thanks!
Mornington Peninsula Jobs
I think that what you posted made a bunch of sense.
But, what about this? what if you were to create a killer post title?
I mean, I don’t wish to tell you how to run your blog, but suppose you added a headline that makes people want more?
I mean The First Commandment – Coach in the Context of the Organization – Human Talent Network | Talent &
Social Science is a little plain. You might look at
Yahoo’s front page and watch how they create article headlines to get viewers to click.
You might add a video or a related picture or two to get readers excited
about what you’ve written. Just my opinion, it could make your posts a little bit more interesting.
https://mayintoannhan.blogspot.com/
It’s amazing in support of me to have a web site, which is useful in favor of my knowledge.
thanks admin
filme stream
Do you have any video of that? I’d care to find
out more details.
Bailey
The First Commandment – Coach in the Context of the Organization – Human Talent Network
| Talent & Social Science http://ibsfc.org
Treasure at Tampines Price list
Glad your back , take care❤
My blog: Treasure at Tampines Price list
https://fks-team.net/registracziya/
Время обработки заявок навыплату зависит от суммы и составляет от 1 до 21 рабочего дня банковских дней.