Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered year long, 1 on 1 executive coaching program for leaders
Intellectual knowledge is not enough
- Most successful leaders today have a good intellectual understanding of the various management tools & skills required to lead an organization successfully. They have gone through countless training programs, books, and E-learning.
- However, when it comes to implementing the intellectual knowledge and converting it into an on job change in behavior, most leaders have a great deal of difficulty.
- Therefore, the major leadership challenges for managers and executives today is NOT understanding the practice of leadership BUT practicing their understanding of leadership.
- For successful organizational leaders to become more effective, leadership change needs to be positive, sustained, recognized and acknowledged by their stakeholders (and others).
Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching is a real time on the job process that is highly effective and time efficient. Accelerating leadership growth and effectiveness is about changing behaviors and creating new processes & habits while interacting with others (stakeholders) on the job.
Awareness and Acceptance are not enough
Some coaching programs are effective in creating awareness and acceptance in the leader. As a result, the leader intellectually understands the need to change, where he needs to change, and how it will improve his leadership effectiveness. Although this critical step is a necessary condition for improvement, it is not sufficient. “Intent of the leader to change” is good, but it should translate into action and achievement.
Action and Acknowledgement are key!
Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching takes the leadership change process a step further, outside the leader’s office, and into their work environment with the stakeholders. Stakeholders can provide important and insightful suggestions for behavioral change that would help leaders to become more effective on the job. The Stakeholder Centered Coaching process includes a strong emphasis on action implementation and follow-through to make change stick, thus creating more effective leadership behaviors and habits. Leadership growth has only real value through implementing change that is sustained, recognized and acknowledged by stakeholders in the workplace. Perception is the reality.
Stakeholder Centered Coaching guarantees measurable leadership growth, 1 on 1 executive coaching program for leaders
The efficacy of Marshall’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching approach has been clearly demonstrated:
- A comprehensive study among 11,000 business leaders on 4 continents concluded that 95% of leaders who applied the Stakeholder Centered Coaching process measurably improved their leadership effectiveness.
- This process is time and resources efficient and effective: Unlike training and executive education programs, Stakeholder Centered Coaching does not require any ‘extra valuable time’ from busy business executives. It also involves the entire team, as the coaching and leadership change process is integrated in their leadership role on the job.
- We will deliver measurable growth in leadership effectiveness of the leaders – not as judged by us but as assessed by the leader’s stakeholders.
- Our commitment is to support leaders to become more effective in their organization, is backed by our ‘No Growth, No Pay’ success guarantee.
- Numerous great top executives, leadership thought leaders and HR development professionals have firsthand experience in working with Marshall Goldsmith and applying his Stakeholder Centered Coaching process for themselves and their organizations. Your leaders will be coached using the exact same process.