EM-Power

Executive Coaching
The Key to Unlocking Performance Potential

EM-POWER COACHING PROCESS The EM-POWER coaching process is designed to capitalize on an individual's innate strengths, overcome potential weaknesses to achieve specific business and career goals.

The process is comprised of four specific stages:

1. Past: Getting to Know you as a Person

The purpose of this stage is to gain an understanding of the developmental factors that have influenced your current character, including such factors as family, culture, upbringing, education and career history.

Information which will be discussed is:

Education: including school, colleges, and advanced education
Career history: places worked, roles held, successes, challenges, things enjoyed, projects not enjoyed, etc.

2. Present: Where are You Now?

The purpose of this stage is to understand your current context, to ensure any developmental plans are realistic and in alignment with your overall situation.

This will involve:

Discussing your current job responsibilities, including objectives, significant milestones, current challenges, achievements, current leader and team members, other key influencers at work, etc. as a way of setting a starting point for the coaching process.
Learning about your current relationship structure: significant others, friends, children, family, etc.
Talking about any current outside work activities such as volunteering, community activity, hobbies etc. as a way of gaining a complete picture of your time availability and other interests and talents that might be relevant.
(Optional) Using your personality profile (temperament, cognitive processes and type) as a starting point for self-understanding, to build a picture of your innate strengths and challenges, and as a tool for improving your performance.

3. Future: What do you want to achieve?

The purpose of this stage is to develop clear business/career objectives and a short term (three month) step-by-step action plan to achieve them.

This will involve:

Clarifying your Purpose: what makes you feel motivated in your business life.
Defining your current "Unique Selling Proposition": what it is that you uniquely contribute to an organization.
Establishing three Key Result Areas: those pivotal areas in which you want to achieve results.
Writing objectives for each of these Key Result Areas so that you can clearly measure your results.
Evaluating challenges that might affect your ability to reach your goals and identifying ways around these challenges.
Building milestones and action plans to achieve these goals.
Monitoring performance on a regular basis to adjust plans as necessary and celebrate successes.

COACHING PROCESS

Session One (an extended half-day session) will focus on "The Past" and "The Present". The prime activity is sharing information between the Coach and the Client.
Session Two will focus on clarifying the client's purpose, defining his/her Unique Selling Proposition and building SMART goals and objectives.
Sessions Three through Six will focus on implementing specific performance improvement strategies to achieve the client's goals.

FORMAT

Ideally, coaching sessions will be held every other week on the phone, each session lasting one hour.
At the end of each coaching session, there will be an agreement about specific tasks to be completed before the next coaching session by the client, and any information that the Coach needs to supply to support the process.

Clients are from such organizations as:

Aspect
Cisco
Intellitools
KPMG
Oxford Psychologists Press
SGI
UK Zurich