Executive Coaching Services, Career Compass Canada

Executive Coaching

International Coaching Federation - Definition of Coaching
ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching is an important and effective means to enhance performance to reach higher levels of leadership development, training and organizational effectiveness. Developing leaders at all levels creates effectiveness by accelerating growth, supporting self-awareness and enhancing individual and team performance.

Coaching engages leaders in personalized ways tailored to their uniqueness. It is this customization that sets executive coaching apart from other leadership development opportunities.

The most important resource a company has, is its people. Making an investment in your leaders and high-potential individuals pays huge dividends. When you invest in coaching your people they are energized and inspired to develop an effective and sustainable action plan to move forward.

Our professional coaching team are all experienced International Coaching Federation (ICF) Credentialed Coaches who can ask the right questions, probe the issues and provide an individual with a unique perspective.

Executive coaching is a recognized standard for not only executives but for managers at various levels within organizations to increase productivity, leadership capacity and accelerate alignment between business strategy and professional development.

Our dedicated sister company Executive Coach Global-Cornerstone Toronto also provides excellence in leadership training and executive coaching delivered by our International Coaching Federation Credentialed team. Our delivery is focused on maximizing team and individual potential through commitment and having a plan of action for sustainability over the long haul.

Who would benefit most from Executive Coaching

A leader who wants to build meaningful relationships, earn more respect and build trust
A leader who has recently been promoted
A leader who is having challenges with their team and direct reports
A leader who is working in a demanding environment that requires enhanced leadership skills
A leader who is not reaching their maximum potential
A leader who has joined a new company and needs to adjust to an established culture

Reap the many positive outcomes from Coaching

Obtain tangible results of greater productivity, faster promotions, bigger profits
Learn what is sabotaging and slowing down success
Identify personal strengths and weaknesses, others’ perceptions and development opportunities
Advance things earlier and with greater accuracy
Hear your own voice, talk through issues in a safe forum and gain perspective
Benefit from a sounding board who can objectively mirror verbal and non-verbal behaviour…the cold truth others won’t tell you
Gain greater awareness of perspectives, beliefs and attitudes that may be impeding progress
Count on support and confidence to “lean in” and make bold moves
Glean clarity regarding personal values and beliefs, leading to greater conviction
Become aware of blind spots and ideas for ways to advance
Appreciate emotional support, empathy and encouragement

CASE STUDY

Developing Leaders: Helping Female Executives Excel in Male-Dominated Environments

This well established financial services organization desired to assist its highest-level female executive to be even more successful in a primarily male-dominated industry. For continued career success she needed to improve her communication and partnering skills to be more effective working alongside people with whom she shared few similarities.

The Challenge

Highly accomplished at this point in her career, the top ranking female executive of this financial services organization struggled to break through the primarily male-dominated industry to achieve her full potential and contributions to the organization. She sought a firm and executive coach who could tailor a program to her specific situation, helping her identify and develop a plan to enhance her skills.

The Career Partners International Solution

After interviewing several firms, the executive selected Career Partners International and one of its expert executive coaches. She sought a coach with extensive executive-level business experience with whom she was comfortable as a strategic thought partner. Recognizing that “it was crucial to learn how men think and act” she explained, she chose to work with a male coach. In fact, understanding the differences was instrumental in achieving new levels of success.

The Career Partners International executive coach listened and tailored a program that would identify and expand upon all of the best qualities and talents the executive possessed while encouraging and developing new behaviors and skills where deficiencies existed. To accomplish this and create an impactful development plan, the coaching process included customized assessments. The added value came from the coach’s ability to create and implement a development plan that helped the executive effectively adapt her skills to a variety of situations.

The Results

This executive reached new levels of effectiveness which were measured by these extraordinary business successes:

Equity investment in her business unit doubled in one year.
A new line of business was added that will double her firm’s revenue base within three years.
Her region achieved record revenues the first year; maximum bonuses were paid, and revenues continue to exceed targets.