A Unique Approach
Leadership Partners is invested in every client we serve. Like most executive coaches, we are highly credentialed and experienced with a superior track record, but our coaching model is what makes us unique.
Several factors are present in great leadership and success in life. People who possess these factors are better leaders, have more promotions, are healthier, have more balance and wellbeing, and are just overall happier.
These factors are core to our coaching model, and they include strong self-awareness, strong growth mindset, a strong inner locus of control, and finally the know how to recognize and overcome our own negativity bias.
These factors are foundational to our model:
- We have vast experience coaching all level of leaders
- We are committed to development focused on the “whole leader.”
- Coaching to the whole leader is comprehensive, motivating, and yields higher success.
When this is effectively done, leaders develop robust resilience, intentionality, balance, and they gain greater self-awareness and are more self-actualized.
Leading self is essential to our model:- Leaders must know and actualize their own values and traits.
- Coaches help leaders know their leader identity.
- Coaches help leaders articulate their values and standards.
We accomplish this through heart-centered personal engagement with the client and through the authentic application of leadership principles.
Transformational Coaching: Three Phases
Below you see our coaching roadmap divided into three phases, each with three steps.
Phase 1 is the Discovery Phase- Leaders takes the Optimum Health Assessment
- Leaders take the 360 Leadership Assessment
- Leaders envision and create a strategy with articulated goals (life scripts).
- Life scripts create goals, steps, and actions that a leader takes.
- Leaders learn how to maintain their goals.
- Leaders utilize the coaching toolbox to self-coach.
We Deliver Exceptional Service
We just reviewed our roadmap, so let’s take a deeper dive.
Our model also includes a focused skill enhancement plan that
- aligns with a leader’s individual goals,
- aligns with their 360 assessment goals,
- aligns with and the school system’s organizational objectives,
- utilizes certified (ICF) coaches/Professional Certified Coach (PCC) coaches, and
- leaders receive seven one-hour sessions of personalized coaching. (virtual)
A Collaborative Process
Leaders engage in a collaborative process with our coaches. Together, with input from their assigned designee, they develop a strategy with specific actions and desired outcomes to improve their leadership and their overall lives. As such:
- Coaches listen to understand.
- Coaches ask powerful questions.
- Coaches challenge and support.
- Impact: A leader’s self-confidence and self-efficacy improves.
With this strategy, we work with the leader in areas related to their job success. This includes identifying new approaches to job responsibilities, coping with frequent change and transition, and defining the leader’s long-term professional career goals.
Leadership Assessments and Accountability
Leadership is a “contact sport.” Therefore we:
- Incorporate multiple assessments to reveal strengths and opportunities.
- Emphasize emotional intelligence development.
- Provide tools for building self-reflection, self-belief, stress management, and accurate self-assessment.
Furthermore, because leadership is a contact sport, it creates pain points. Our coaches provide continuous feedback mechanisms supporting leaders in their reflection and growth throughout the coaching journey. Part of this feedback loop includes the client. The coach and the leader actively support the individualized enhancement plan.
To sum up, as a coaches, our roles are to- ask the right questions,
- challenge assumptions,
- highlight evidence,
- and cheer on our clients!
