Suggesting that he should act ‘As-If’ his work life was organized, his executive team made better decisions quicker and his team achieved what we defined as high-performance. This was more than a thought exercise, it was time for this executive to actually behave As-If.
Coaching and development for 5 high potential managers. Currently the managers are struggling with a change in their role. Their direct manager is noticing a lapse in time for responses to customers and project members, poor delegation of tasks and prioritization of incoming and outgoing work, plus increased signs of stress with the employees.
Framing my reflection question: How could I have improved the participant application of the content to their work better today?
Creating a consulting and coaching process for an organization that wants to develop about 110 high potential employees.
How do you define job satisfaction?
There’s no easy answer.
When we have a level of satisfaction that is sufficient we know it, and those that care about us can see it, and we can say “I am really satisfied with my job right now.”
Solution-Focused – executive, management and team coaching is all about pragmatic applications.
In preparation for a kick-off meeting, beginning almost 24 months of work, with a new organization I used the SOLVED method to determine how to make the meeting better.
Sometimes coaching is forced on an employee by their manager because they are having a tough time with a new position or their existing manager just does not know what to-do, and many other reasons.
Okay, when that happens what do you do as an executive coach?
We think that “deep” responses come from “deep” questions, not true. Responses can be at the proper depth that the person answering the question feels is necessary, it has very little to do with the question.
If, as a manger, you cannot predict what employees are doing and the completion date of delegated tasks…you cannot do your work.
The value in this method is that by focusing on what you want the solution to be as opposed to focusing on the problem, your energy and focus can be put into developing action steps towards the solution. The problem is known and acknowledged AND the solution is found in examining what you know, what resources you have and need in order to solve your problems in your context and in learning how to continually improve.