Case study

Leadership & management skills development

The opportunity

Executive one-on-one coaching

This is typically about supporting individuals to identify and acknowledge skill gaps or style gaps that may be contributing to stalled leadership development within an organisation, large or small. Often it involves a desire to acquire a skill, have time to think strategically and reflect, plan and assess, and work on key relationships. Or it may be about taking a business owner or GM or CEO from point A to point B in their career. Providing them with someone fundamentally on their side who provides safe spaces for challenging conversations in a bid to add clarity and direction is the key value add here..

Farsight's approach

For Farsight’s Jonathan Black this is where his knowledge excels in terms of leadership development programs for business or industry. “It may be you have a person who lacks an ingredient that would make them a more effective communicator or you may be worried about the work-life balance of one of your senior management team.” The company has realised they need to support an individual or team under the pump and a coach’s role is to work with each individual to identify what's going on for them and how best they can navigate to where they want and need to be as the desired outcome.

The result

Space for reflection and goal-setting, exploration of values-based leadership and authenticity, problem solving through a supportive objective lens, review and reflection of career and leadership experiences, and more. Ultimately for the company, this means better-enabled people with greater insight into themselves and their leadership style. The outcome is better work-life balance for busy executives and increased satisfaction and goal setting capabilities at a time they get to genuinely work on themselves and not just others. Overall, coaching provides greater success for individuals within companies during periods they need it most.

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