Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching helps individuals developself-awareness to improve their leadership competencies, leverage existing strengths, minimize weaknesses, and enhance performance. It involves real transformative work to change behaviours and attitudes in a highly focused manner, maximizing performance and reaching personal and organizational goals.

Sample Focus Areas

Leading Change
Improving Executive Presence and Leadership Style
Building Coalition, Interpersonal relationships, listening
skills and empathy
Understanding Decision Style and Bias
Leading with vision and purpose
Building High Performing Teams
Coaching & Developing Others
Emotional intelligence
Advanced feedback skills
Communication skills

Assessments

Thinking Styles (NBI): The assessment is based on neuroscience and measures how you prefer to think in a variety of contexts.
DiSC® personal assessment: DiSC® profiles describe human behavior in various situations—for example, how the respond to challenges, how you influence others, your preferred pace, and how you respond to rules and procedures.
Hogan 360 – is a multi-rater feedback tool
Hogan Assessments (HPI,HDS, MVPI): It is a complete set of assessments that provide insights on leadership strengths and weaknesses, reputation, motivators, preferred work settings and personality derailers.

The Hogan Development Model

The model has three components: Behavioral Attributes, Competency Domains, and Job Performance. Behavioral Attributes describe “why we do what we do.” Competency Domains describe “what we do and how we do it.

Derailer Coaching- increasing self-awareness

“I am able to control only that of which I am aware. That of which I am unaware controls me.” John Whitmore

Under stress or pressure, most people will display certain counter -productive behaviors and tendencies. We refer to these as “derailers”. These behaviors typically also emerge when leaders become complacent and stop monitoring their behavior.

Derailer coaching has as objective to discuss the client’s top derailers and strategies to mitigate them. Developing awareness of those patterns and stepping into practicing new behaviors is part of the executive coaching process.

For this matter, we use the Hogan Development Survey (HDS), an assessment that measures individual risks in 11 derailers that get in the way of leaders’ success.

Standard Executive Coaching Engagement

10 x 1hr Coaching sessions (weekly or bi-weekly) + 5 x 30min emergency Laser sessions (last minute support you may need- flexible times). Assessments will be included as per agreement with the client.

Sessions are currently held via zoom.

Coaching Methodology

Versum Consulting follows the 3CP coaching methodology developed by Columbia University of the City of New York. The methodology consists in a process made up of three distinct phases: Context (What’s up?), Content (What matters?) and Conduct (What’s next?). Each phase is tailored to meet the specific needs of each client and his/her organization.

The coaching process combines challenge and support, helps create a strategy with an action plan, feedback mechanism as well as accountability and commitment to help the client stays on track to assure goal attainment.