MGSCC cherishes its mission every day: To enable and promote better leadership everywhere. And to become even more involved in the coaching community, Brandon Mergard and the team are proud to present “Conversations with Coaches”. In this new podcast, every 2 weeks, you will meet an unmasked leadership hero who will, via their professional career, successes, and errors, offer a real-life, practical, hopeful ...
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This conversation discusses a coaching engagement with a CEO in a nonprofit organization. The client faced challenges related to emotional reactivity, accepting feedback, and providing accountability and support to change management teams. The engagement was initiated through a referral and involved assessing the leader's readiness for coaching. The coaching process included setting expectations, negotiating parameters, and adapting to new challenges. Over the course of three years, the leader made significant progress in emotion regulation, accountability, and leadership competencies. The coaching approach focused on building a culture of feedback and measuring results through stakeholder feedback. Key takeaways include the importance of aligning coaching with organizational values and using quantitative measures to assess leadership effectiveness.
This conversation explores the challenges faced when selecting the right client for a coaching engagement. The coach shares a story of an engagement that went wrong due to various factors, including lack of clarity in the client's needs, lack of team accountability, communication issues, and challenges with completing the 360 assessment. The coach reflects on the importance of articulating the benefits of coaching and the impact of crises on engagement. Key learnings include the need for tough conversations, the importance of executive commitment and support, and the value of flexibility in the coaching process. The coach emphasizes the importance of selecting the right client and improving the client selection process.
In this conversation with Jathan Janove, we explore how Stakeholder-Centered Coaching transformed the behavior and perception of a highly successful CFO who was initially seen as abrasive and intimidating. We discuss the client's challenges, the initial contact, the introduction to stakeholder-centered coaching, and how we addressed apprehension and defensiveness. We also dive into the role of role-playing, the stakeholder-centered coaching process, the mini-survey, the after-action review, and the overall results of the engagement. Along the way, we highlight the skills and techniques, including the effective use of role plays, that contributed to this success.
Brenda Bence shares her experience working with a CEO and CFO in a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange. The engagement focused on CEO succession planning and developing the CFO as a potential successor. Brenda emphasizes the need for coaches to watch for patterns among stakeholders and explore any outliers in feedback. She also discusses the importance of coachability and working with clients who are hungry for change
In this episode of Conversations with Coaches, Lillian Davenport, a seasoned leadership and career development coach, shares her expertise on how to foster leadership excellence. Tune in to discover how targeted coaching strategies and assessments can unlock the potential of leaders, even those facing the unique challenges of rapid career advancement. This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to enhance their leadership capabilities and drive organizational impact.