Individual Executive Coaching
Overview
Individual Executive Coaching is a personalized, one-on-one partnership between a coach and a client focused on fostering personal and professional development.
This coaching is designed to accelerate growth, overcome new challenges, and unlock potential in key areas such as leadership, stakeholder management, and performance. With a tailored approach, clients benefit from dedicated time and space to reflect, strategize, and work on what matters most to them.
When to Use Individual Coaching?
Engage in coaching when you need support and challenge on significant issues, including:
Facing new challenges or responsibilities
Desiring to accelerate personal and professional growth
Striving to unlock your performance potential
Navigating leadership or team dynamics
Seeking balance between career and personal life
Individual Executive Coaching is a powerful opportunity for personal and professional growth, equipping clients with the tools and insights needed to thrive in their careers.
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Clients often report feeling significantly more effective and satisfied with their work after coaching, with renewed inspiration to make extra efforts. Research indicates that:
Most clients believe coaching has improved their goal achievement, well-being, and leadership effectiveness.
61% of stakeholders see substantial progress toward objectives, with nearly 60% attributing "a significant share or all" of that progress directly to coaching. Additionally, 99% credit coaching for "at least some" progress.
(Source: Center for Creative Leadership)
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The coaching process is client-focused, respecting individual goals, priorities, and preferences, while maintaining confidentiality between the coach and client.
The coach helps expand the client's awareness of their objectives, situations, and options for addressing challenges through thoughtful questioning, feedback, and encouragement.
The client can expect: progress in listening skills, focus, and insight into options and solutions; identification and definition of tools to better handle challenges.
Individual Coaching Project Example
"Executive Coaching for Partners and Sector Managers" - Supporting executives in an individual and customized way.
Challenge
Professional services organization with strong growth: CEO wanted to create conditions for his partners and prospective partners to assume their role at their best.
To do so, he wanted to provide them with confidential individual support, tailored to each one's needs, with total freedom and trust.
Solution
We supported 10 top executives with individual executive coaching processes over a year.
The process included collecting 360º interview feedback, and 10 confidential sessions on their goals, concerns and challenges.
Results
At the end of this year, 5 of these 10 executives embraced challenges of greater responsibility, in Portugal, in other geographies, and even in multinational positions. We were delighted for them.
We received very encouraging feedback: on a scale of 1 to 10, satisfaction with the coaching program was for all participants equal to or greater than 8.
Value felt:
“Discipline to devote time to thinking (that as busy executives we often complain of not being able to)”
“Much richer feedback than that received before, triggering deeper and more concrete reflection and new strategies”
“To think out loud - to tell myself things I hadn't said yet, and that I realize at that moment are important”
“Talking to someone in whom I place great trust, who challenges me, makes me question myself, see myself from new angles, make new choices or make peace with my choices, more consciously”
“Significant changes in one' s personal life (more sports, time with the family,...) and professional life (in the relationship with peers and teams)”
