Executive leadership coaching is one of the most common and widely understood types of coaching. It’s an effective way to strengthen the performance of your most important leaders, assist them in making key transitions, and enable them to alter behaviors that may be hindering their performance. Executive leadership coaching typically kicks off with a matching process to ensure a good fit between the coach and the participant, followed by one or more assessments and alignment meetings with key stakeholders. During the coaching engagement, the coach may help the executive understand and use information from assessments, create and work through a development plan, and address specific business and interpersonal challenges. The personal, supportive environment provided by an executive coach can foster new ways of thinking, acting, and influencing to achieve significant business results. Learn more about how executive coaching elevates performance and how this type of coaching provides leaders much-needed support.
Integrated coaching is an approach that embeds coaching sessions into — or wrapped around — a broader leadership development program or initiative. It can reaffirm and reinforce lessons learned in leadership training. For example, an organization running a development program for high-potential, mid-level managers might include a coaching element — or a series of 2-5 coaching sessions — designed to help participants in the program reflect, deepen, and apply what they’re learning in the development experience. Though often over a shorter term than executive coaching engagements, this type of coaching can help ensure that leadership development learnings “stick.”