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

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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:

• Move the executive from general venting to a specific plan.
  

• Help the leader identify her side of the pattern in the "forcefield" of the situation.
  
  
• Address organizational and role alignment issues.
  
  
• Plan for resistance to the executive's actions.
  
  
• 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.