Creating a Coaching Culture From the Top Down:

Advanced Skills & Practices

Arrive February 3 February 4-6, 2014 Walden Inn & Spa,

Aurora, Ohio

http://yourwalden.com/

Our goal is to periodically bring together an elite, hand-selected group of talent management

professionals. Besides learning from each other, you will experience the advanced coaching event we created for our global cadre of external coaches.

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Welcome to Creating a Coaching Culture—From

the Top Down. You will experience what more than

1,000 internal and external coaches around the

globe have told us are the most meaningful parts of

advanced coaching skills. This experience was

originally designed to certify a C-suite cadre of 250

executive coaches and has been adapted to help

you apply:

q A shared methodology q Your successful

executive education & coaching experience q

Previous senior level experiences q Deep

knowledge of your region’s business climate and

cultures q Methods for successfully teaching

coaching to others q Ways to obtain high

evaluations q Techniques for working at both the

C-suite level and with emerging leaders q On

boarding best-practices

Does Teaching Coaching to Leaders Work?

For more than a decade, reputable studies have

been done to show that leaders who coach well

tend to get higher financial results and have more

engaged employees than leaders whose coaching

skills are perceived as below the norm. Most

organizations need a way to teach advanced

coaching skills to select leaders to develop a

culture of coaching. It would be advantageous if

this coaching methodology were also consistent

with what our external coaches are using with your

leaders.

When we provide coaching education to talent management professionals, we run them through the same

advanced coaching experience our carefully recruited coaches complete. Executive Core coaches are

trained in a shared coaching methodology and flex their approach to the preferences of the leaders we

serve. We work hard to understand your strategic priorities and will reinforce those to help create alignment

across the business units. Before you engage in coaching, we teach you to assess a leader’s readiness for

coaching. If you determine (using an established set of criteria) that the time may not be right for coaching

and the person is less receptive to making changes now, you can explore alternative courses of action.

Another aspect of executive coaching we explore includes benchmarking performance against predictors of

success research and trends across the industry so you can continue to differentiate your people internally.

Coaching can be effective when the right approach is adapted for the right level. We work to

make sure that each situation is carefully assessed for readiness to coach, coach/leader match,

stakeholders that need to be involved, and how to measure success over time.

Explore What Our Global Footprint of International Experts Has Discovered

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Coaches who apply a rigorous approach get better results. We will test your coaching skills at all levels of the organization with differing levels of business complexity. One of the hallmarks of this program is exploring what it takes to earn both trust and credibility at the top of the house when you are coaching C-suite executives.

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Event Objectives: Through a better understanding of the executive and organizational contexts, provide more powerful coaching interventions to senior level executives:

• Explore the traits of vibrant organizations who have developed a culture of coaching • Become a more credible and trusted resource to your executive clients • Obtain 40 hours of ICF (International Coach Federation) CCEU’s (for coach specific hour units) • Achieve certification in “The Language of Influence”—a 360° survey in predictors of executive

success • Become more proficient in applying a robust coaching framework to complex business coaching

challenges • Hone and master your unique and powerful presence that communicates confidence and inspires

executives to engage fully in development Prework:

• Complete the MBTI Step II self-assessment • Complete the Language of Influence 360° Survey • Read Selected Assignments

Day of Arrival Evening Session 4:00 Arrival at the Venue, Registration 5:30 Group Dinner & Introductions Day One 9:15 Case study/simulation: How Organizational Contexts Define Coaching Needs 10:15 Assessing Executive Worldview 11:00 Break 11:15 Coaching Readiness Scale; Linking Coaching to Strategic Priorities 11:30 Problem solving vs. Coaching 12:00 Lunch Break 1:00 Leveraging the Adaptive Coaching Framework 1:30 Determining Goals/Defining Success Targets 2:15 Shadowing and Feedback; Creating Insight for Change 3:15 Break 3:30 Adapting your Approach & Charting a Path Together 4:00 Application 5:30 Daily Wrap

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Day Two 9:15 War Stories and Summary of Selected Readings (Participants Facilitate) 9:45 Building Trust and Credibility with Executive Clients10:00 Break 10:15 Language of Influence & Operating Styles 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Evidence Based Coaching; Working Hypothesis, Preparing to Question the Hypothesis 2:00 Action Coaching (video taped practice) 4:00 Feedback & Next Steps for Coaching Development 5:00 Daily Wrap 7:00 Celebratory Dinner Day Three 8:00 Building an Integrated Talent Management Strategy Reinforced by Coaching 9:00 Predictors of Success 9:30 Helping Newly Promoted/Placed Executives Through the First 90 Days 10:00 Break 10:15 Follow Through and Measuring the Effectiveness of Coaching 10:45 Managing Defense Mechanisms and Difficult Leaders 12:00 Working Lunch Q&A; Share Best Practices Across Industries Around Current Challenges 1:00 Coaching CEOs and Top Management Teams 1:45 Welcome Aboard Now Don’t Change Anything Action Coaching Case 2:45 Next Steps—Preparing to Coach at More Senior Levels and Teaching Coaching Practices 3:30 Program Wrap

Optional Activities Post Event for ICF CCEU’s. For those people who want to get ICF CCEU’s, participants will engage in additional follow-up sessions and submit a paper journaling their application of skills with two different clients at different levels. These extra activities allow each person to gain a total of 40 CCEU’s.

• Core Competencies 28 Hours • Personal Development

Competencies 3 Hours • OT (other tools) 2 Hours • Plus 7 Hours Follow-up (Two-90

Minute Sessions and a Paper)

International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation

ICF CCEU’s approved

ACEC CCEU’s pending

CCE Category Units

ICF Core Competencies 28.00

Personal Development 7.00

Business Development .00

Other Skills and Tools 5.75

Executive Core P.O. Box 700 Hudson, Ohio 44236-0700

330.861.6033

www.executivecore.com

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Our global team of coaches and

facilitators has helped senior consultants

from top firms evolve themselves for

nearly two decades. We call them the

core because every professional has

navigated senior leadership positions in

major organizations, some as CEO. This

advanced coaching program is designed

to stretch you as we have stretched this

successful group. We are confident that

you will enjoy the process.

Pricing: $3500 for 2 ½ day onsite sessions

• Continental breakfast & lunch

• Certification in Language of

Influence 360° feedback survey

• ICF and/or ACEC credit

• $800 for optional follow-on work

toward ICF/ACEC credit

Lodging, travel, evening meals, and spa

facilities are the financial responsibility of

each attendee.

Executive Core’s founder has been dedicated to the Council for just under a decade. Currently we are the only talent management firm accepted as a member of the council. Our professionals not only have PhDs or advanced degrees but they understand the practical realities of business today.

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Instructor & Progam Designers’ Biographies Barbara Singer Cheng, Instructor is the founder and CEO of Executive Core and leads a group of 100 international professionals whose mission is to more quickly innovate professional development globally. In the last 15 years, Barbara has worked with thousands of high-potentials leaders around the globe at critical turning points in their careers. Barbara has dedicated her career to developing leaders, who remain focused on the business priorities, anticipate the future and remove obstacles, and learn while they are making an impact on the business. Her clients range from successful CEOs to emerging leaders whose careers are fast tracking. She enjoys working in large global organizations or helping executive teams of mid-sized organizations avoid common pitfalls as they evolve in the markets. Barbara is an accomplished speaker, facilitator, executive coach and consultant. Prior to Executive Core, she held two SVP roles at Lore International Institute, made partner in her early 30’s, and helped lead the organization through start-up to among the top 25% globally ranked before it was acquired by Korn Ferry International. Barbara has served C-suite leaders across Canada through the Judy Project sponsored by Microsoft, & the University of Toronto and leaders around the world from the C-suite on down in organizations like Cisco Systems, HP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GE, Lucent, Pfizer, Corus Media, Heidrick & Struggles, and many others. Anna Pool, Program Designer has helped thousands of leaders around the world accelerate their careers. She has been sought out for some of the toughest assignments. Her business background includes experience at the vice president and Board level of a medium size alternative health care facility benchmarked by the Harvard Medical School as one of the most innovative and effective of its kind. She works from the CEO level on down and has often been an instrumental partner during difficult economic or industry downturns. Some of her senior clients have helped facilitate historic company turn-arounds. Her breadth of experience in facilitating strategic planning, leadership development and alignment, and organizational culture development in both private and public organizations allows her to quickly understand and clarify her clients’ “must win” business imperatives. As a trusted advisor to top leadership, she provides insight, tough feedback, and the collaborative environment within which the future can be powerfully envisioned and systematically enabled. She is the former director of Organizational Consulting for Lore International Institute in Durango, Colorado. She also served as an organizational learning consultant to Ford’s New Business Leader program, an innovative, action-learning program that was benchmarked by the International Consortium on Executive Development as among the best in the world. Anna is the author of the Bronze Telly Award winning video series, Effective People Skills, and is the co-author of the 360° Assessment of Collaborative Tendencies.

“Having known her for many years, Barbara possesses a unique balance of business acumen, professional insight and people skills that translates into a high impact leader who is a trusted advisor to senior leaders and is effective in engaging a broad audience of stakeholders. Barbara has a strong network of supporters developed through her integrity, vision and humanity. She possesses the tangible and intangible characteristics to create positive change and boost the leadership quality of any endeavor.”

“Working with Anna was one of the best experiences of my professional life. Her coaching and instructional approach was well prepared, customized to my needs and, even more importantly, had a hugely positive impact my effectiveness and that of my team. I consider her a key business partner as we continue to uncover new and challenging developmental requirements every step of the way.” SVP Global Sales, Telecom