Executive Coaching with
Backbone and Heart
A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges

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CHAPTER EIGHT
Phase 4 -- Debriefing: Define a Learning Focus

This chapter covers the following areas of debriefing:

   Evaluate the leader's effectiveness, including --

  • assessing the leader's strengths and challenges.

  • encouraging executives to customize their managing.

  • reviewing the leader's skill in management competencies.

  • customizing your debriefing to each executive.

  • debriefing with tough clients.

Evaluating the leader's effectiveness, gives the leader a kind of biofeedback mechanism. He can compare his own experience to the feedback he gets from you as his coach. During the debrief phase, the executive can be open to learning and improving how he manages. Among the many items to attend to in the learning moments, I will focus on two here: the executive's approach to his employees, and his ability to enact a core set of management competencies (these can be guidelines for his future development). I will also explore ways to customize your coaching to each executive during the debrief phase.

Sometimes, you may encounter a client that resists developing his leadership ability. In the debrief stage, you need to decide how to continue to work with the leader -- or even whether to continue to work with him at all. A section in the chapter addresses this challenge.

 
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