Stakeholder Centered Coaching

Stakeholder Centered Coaching : An activity-based overview of the coaching process

SCC involves three sets of activities. 1) Selecting growth areas that are important to the leader and the organization 2) Involving stakeholders while implementing change actions 3) Measuring leadership growth as perceived by stakeholders. The coach & the leader collaborate in the implementation. The coach facilitates the entire coaching process. The coach is committed to unlimited coaching hours to guarantee measurable leadership growth. Selecting Leadership Growth Area The coach and the leader identify respondents best placed to give relevant feedback on what the leader can improve upon. The coach gets this feedback from structural assessments and behavioural interviews. The coach and the leader then assess the collated feedback and identify the 1-2 leadership growth areas that the leader can work upon. These areas need to be important not only to the leader but to the organization as well. The required buy-in from the leader’s boss ensures that the organization backs the coaching agenda. This set of activities is completed by the end of two months. To explain the process better, let us say, that the leadership growth area for the…