Individualized Executive Coaching

Organizational and Team Building

Services

 

What is Executive Coaching?

Executive Coaching is individualized, supportive and dynamic mentoring by a qualified and experienced professional. An Executive Coach has the singular purpose of helping executives and aspiring individuals move beyond their current level of accomplishment and solve particularly challenging issues.

What Executive Coaching is not: it is not therapy or a clinical relationship. If clinical challenges present themselves in our sessions, we will refer you to a practitioner who can effectively support any psychotherapeutic issues. While Dr. Davidson is a clinical psychologist with years of treating clinical conditions, she will only be acting as an Executive Coach through Executive Coaching Services and must avoid any duality of roles.

Who uses Executive Coaching Services?

C-suite executives dealing with:

  • the challenges of a large and diverse team

  • difficult personalities

  • mapping a critical path to the next level of career or professional advancement

  • entrepreneurs working to build a sustainable business

Management professionals:

  • challenged by large or small impediments to their success

  • seeking next steps to accomplish goals that might take them beyond their current role

Basically, anyone with a vision of professional growth who wants to maximize their ability to accomplish that vision benefits from executive coaching.

What do coaching clients work on?

Professional growth by nature, means doing new things, taking on new challenges and stretching to meet those challenges. We have the experience, knowledge, and education to help you navigate and harness the energy of this growth. Whether it is moving through challenging or seemingly unmovable situations with your team, manager, direct reports, or moving your business to a new level; we can help you achieve your goals.

In person meetings reap the fastest and greatest rewards. Telephone meetings can be arranged with advanced planning, and work very well. The frequency of meetings depends on the client and urgency of the challenges. An effective schedule might start with a weekly cadence for a few weeks, then move to bi-weekly once we have established a course of action. Beyond our meetings, we have found that our clients benefit greatly from specific homework to gain insight into specific issues or to kick-start essential tasks.

Strategies

The underlying goal is often personal and professional mastery, which results in confidence and satisfaction. The path to master is usually a 3 step process:

1: Assessment

First we work together to identify what is working and what needs adjustment or change. This involves in depth discussion about you and your professional challenges and sometimes the use of external tools to help with assessment. While we are outlining the components of the challenges, we are building trust.

2: Action

Step 2 is where we identify and prioritize action items. This is often a building process where we work on foundational pieces first before moving to the more nuanced strategies. This process is always most successful when a strong and collaborative relationship supports the actions taken.

3: Evaluation

Step 3 is where we identify what is working and what is less helpful so that adjustments can be made in a dynamic way, to optimize outcomes.

Often we get to a place where these steps are interwoven throughout a given coaching session, particularly once the context and challenges are established.

Organizational and Team Building

Organizational and team building work will be focused and tailored to your specific organizational or team needs. It may include visioning, strategic planning and facilitation, specific goal setting, team building, communication re-norming, 360 reviews, team problem solving and/or reorganization.

Session length: varies and is customized to the client need, but often

Individual work
90-120 minutes for the initial individual or small group meeting / 60-120 minutes for established individual clients

Organizational and team work
Usually 4 to 8 hours for onsite assessment initially / Additional meetings as agreed