Executive
Coaching with
Backbone and Heart
A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges
Excerpt from
CHAPTER SIX
Phase 2 -- Action Planning: Keep Ownership with the Client
To help your client
get to the action, you can work with her through these steps of
the planning phase:
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Move the executive from
general venting to a specific plan.
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Help the leader identify
her side of the pattern in the "forcefield" of the situation.
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Address organizational
and role alignment issues.
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Plan for resistance to
the executive's actions.
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Determine if you as the
coach have a live action coaching role during the leader's implementation
of her plan.
As you will see in this chapter, the coach has a tremendous
opportunity to contribute to the leader's success by covering these steps
during the planning phase.
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