“Executive coaching is defined as a helping relationship formed between a client who has managerial authority and responsibility in an organization and a consultant who uses a wide variety of behavioural techniques and methods to assist the client achieve a mutually identified set of goals to improve his or her professional performance and personal satisfaction and consequently to improve the effectiveness of the client’s organization within a formally defined coaching agreement.”
Richard R Kilburg in Executive Coaching: Developing Managerial Wisdom in a World of Chaos, pages 65, 67.
Everybody recognises the critical role played by coaches in the success of sports teams or athletes. The same is true of business, where the demand for performance is often more intense and of longer duration. The results also directly affect the lives of staff, customers and suppliers.
OCC offers goal-focused coaching to executives and clients who have managerial authority and responsibility in an organization. As with an athlete, the goals are designed in order to improve the professional performance and personal satisfaction of the manager, so ensuring that the organisation can meet its core purpose successfully.
Business coaching helps leaders to:
- Develop managerial strategies to handle difficult relationships with bosses, peers, subordinate and stakeholders.
- Manage conflict in the teams they lead.
- Address a perceived deficit, often identified in appraisal processes.
- To increase interpersonal skills.
- To increase organizational skills – strategic thinking and interpreting team/organizational dynamicsImplementing a change process to which there is resistance.
- Establish themselves in a newly promoted position
OCC works in a collaborative, confidential, one-on-one relationship with clients. Diverse coaching methods are followed to best meet the formally contracted goals of the process.