Leaders Path Institute

Leaders Path Institute
Individual Executive & Leadership Coaching

What Is and What Is Not Coaching

Coaching is:

• Highly interactive
• Professional collaboration to reach goals
• Completed within the context of organizational goals and objectives

Coaching is not:

• A replacement for training
• Therapy
• Pleasant chit-chat
• Giving answers

How Coaching Differs From Other Services

Coaching	Therapy/Counseling
Short-term process.	Can be a longer term.
Specific narrowly defined issues related to one’s effectiveness at work, within the context of the organization.	Broad based, covering all aspects of a person’s life.
Refers clinical issues to a therapist.	Deals with clinical issues and clients who may be dysfunctional.
Focuses on changing behavior. Deals with feelings as they affect the coaching assignment.	Geared toward staying with feelings and exploring them more fully, especially in coping with grief, anger, and stress.

 

Coaching	Mentoring
Specific, narrowly defined issues or development objectives.	More broad objectives.
Short-term process (3 months to one year).	Long-term focus and longer-range process.
Generally uses trained and objective coach from outside the company.	Generally occurs inside the organization and does not include a trained coach.

Leaders Path Institute is just one part of the overall coaching process. You can consider the Leaders Path Institute retreat the “jump start” that will create momentum in your individual program.

Typical programs include the Leaders Path Institute retreat plus 3 – 6 – 9 – or 12 months of individual coaching. We customize the plan to fit your needs and interests.

Individual coaching can get significant results. A lot of executives and managers have taken all the courses and they are proficient in their technical area. However, at this level it's the more complex issues regarding people management.

Here are some real examples of big returns on the coaching investment.

Executive Coaching Yields ROI of Almost Six Times Its Cost
Coaching programs delivered an average return on investment of 5.7 times the initial investment in a typical executive coaching assignment – or a return of more than $100,000 – according to executives who estimated the monetary value of the results achieved through coaching.
Bureau of National Affairs

Productivity Increases Up to 88%
The present research demonstrates the dramatic effects of one-on-one executive coaching as a transfer of training tool… However, after trainees underwent one-on-one executive coaching, data were collected indicating productivity increased by 22.4 percent … Most importantly, training, when augmented with coaching, yielded productivity increases almost four times the level achieved by training alone (88.0 percent)… Executive coaching is an important way of ensuring that knowledge acquired during training actually emerges as skills that are applied at work.
Executive coaching as a transfer of training tool: effects on productivity in a public agency.. Vol. 26, Public Personnel Management, pp 461(9).

MTV Brings in Leadership Coaching
The coaching helped the executive realize the impact he was having on others and learn new behaviors … The organization calls executive coaching “a strategic intervention” because it is practical, customized to the individual and just-in-time. It provides immediate results…
Bureau of National Affairs

Do You Need an Executive Coach?
Bradford says her year of coaching "was like a grenade in my life that's still going off." It taught her, she says, that "people have to take more responsibility for their own growth and development. They can't depend on human resources. Coaches can help people come to grips with huge changes in the way we do work, in getting through big transitions." …by year-end they had boosted their sales by nearly 60%. Bradford attributes her unorthodox approach and her uncommon results to a secret weapon: her executive coach.
Fortune, Vol. 141 No. 4 page 144+

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Uses Coaching
At Novartis, there is a commitment to be aggressive in the acquisition, retention, and development of leadership talent and to accelerate leadership development at the senior levels as a priority of our human resource strategy. As our experience at Novartis has shown, coaching, as part of a focused development plan, can be a key factor that gives leaders and their organizations an edge in keeping the talent pipeline flowing.
© 2004 Advanstar Communications, Inc.

Leadership Competence Study at Johnson & Johnson
A study was conducted on three hundred and fifty-eight Managers across the Johnson & Johnson Consumer & Personal Care Group (JJC&PC Group) globally to assess if there are specific leadership competencies that distinguish high performers from average performers… Results showed that the highest performing managers have significantly more “emotional competence” than other managers.
The Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Study, by Kathleen Cavallo, PsyD Corporate Consulting Group. Dottie Brienza was Director of Human Resources & Organization Development for the Consumer and Personal Care Group at Johnson & Johnson.

The Blake Group offers a variety of life, leadership and executive coaching programs that are customized to fit your individual needs. We have worked with organizations and individuals for more than 20 years and have a proven track record of accomplishments.

Call us today and get on your way!