Executive Integration Coaching

This coaching process, (also known as 'on-boarding') is designed to maximise the effectiveness of executives beginning a new role in a new company. 

“You can’t succeed in the first 100 days but you can set yourself up for success.” 

To ensure effectiveness, the new executive must drive performance and change, while both respecting and challenging the existing organisational culture and strategy. 

During the first few months all formal and informal  decisions, behaviour and symbolic acts will be closely scrutinized by the organisation and its key stakeholders.  Everything the new executive says and does sends messages, sets tone, establishes expectations and communicates direction to the organisation about what is top priority. 

Executive Integration Coaching can reduce the sources of potential friction by:

• Helping the executive understand how style and experiences can be utilised proactively
• Creating awareness that depending on past successes may be counter productive.
• Identifying and harnessing productive strategies.
• Providing critical support in the initial stages
• Enabling stakeholders to see superior ROI on the placement through improved retention, and a greater likelihood of success
• Managing the shaping of perceptions created by early decisions

Business moves quickly in the 21C, allowing little time for the executive to ease into the new role.  Using this crucial time in a systematic way is vital to success.

The first 100 days in a new role represents a unique window of opportunity, for the executive, but there is also the potential to be easily misunderstood. Peers could quickly categorise the executives management style accordingly (e.g. rash, purposeful, indecisive). Staff observation of who is consulted in early decisions may result in the  executive being labelled as inclusive, authoritarian, or even 'playing favourites'. Is the executive seen as fair, arbitrary, visionary or cautious?  Working on the implications of shaping and managing such perceptions is vitally significant and is explored proactively through the coaching process.

The program centres around the new executive and their coach meeting one hour per week for twelve weeks. 

The specially tailored program will:

• address and work through the key components of transitioning into the organisation
• ensure that the key performance outcomes are met
• align the new executive and the organisation in striving to achieve objectives. 

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