Case Study: Coaching Hi-Potential Leadership Team Members
Case Study: Coaching Hi-Potential Leadership Team Members
Coaching a high potential leadership team to strengthen leadership and executive presence
New Chief Officer wanted to provide team leads in the areas of Sales, Finance and Operations to strengthen their leadership skills and executive presence. Coaching was conducted to prepare each individual executive to take initiative in decision making in support of a new Chief Officer, strengthen relationships with peers and assist their respective team members with moving the organization through a challenging time. The Healthcare Company hired Bena Long Associates to coach the executives through this transition. The engagement began with a 3-month coaching contract that was renewed for an additional 6-months of coaching (9-months total).
The Objectives of the Project:
1. Clients to refocus and build sense of self- worth, confidence, optimism, and resilience to navigate the transition with a new Chief Officer
2. Clients to build and strengthen relationships with executive peers
3. Clients to gain mindful leadership, mindset, stress management, resilience, focusing, emotional intelligence, cultural competence and decision-making skills.
Questions guiding this project:
· What is the client ready and committed to change now?
· What is holding the client back from optimal performance in her/his/they role as an executive?
· What would harmony look like in this leadership role performance, relationships and wellbeing?
Services Provided:
· Mindfulness based Executive and Leadership Coaching
Process:
1. Met with clients individual to clarify needs and determine fit
2. Clients completed pre-coaching interview to define specific learning areas for coaching
3. Conduct milestone achievement measures
4. Met with clients individually both in person and virtually to provide executive and leadership coaching
Results:
For Sales Leads
"It's making us more productive as a team and individually. We are able to get our thoughts clear and clearly knowing what to do."
"I do feel competitive to excel myself and spur other salespeople on by helping each other. Being both competitive and collaborative for the team. "
"We are going in the right direction now. Sometimes I get a little scared when as we grow and bring more people on board that they fit in – I want to make sure that new people integrate. As salespeople we really care for each other – I will cover for you, and we are now there for each other."
For Finance Lead
"I was a different person before the training. I was dealing with internal anxiety and afraid to make decisions on my own because previous Executives were not receptive to my speaking up. Post coaching, I am more aware of my own thoughts and that a lot of the stress was self-created fear and was not real. Also, dynamics of team changed a lot and new people integrated and opened up , it is much better, we are synergized as a whole."
For Operations Lead
"Before the coaching there was so no collaboration or trust. With the coaching we can talk freely now. I started to trust and become more committed. I grew up doing team sports. With the coaching it started to feel like we were all trying to succeed at something together. This made me feel better. So now I use reframing instead of getting frustrated."
Dr. Bena Long began as an Collegiate NCAA Division One Gymnast which ended in injury. She pivoted into monk-like dedication to the practice and study of the science and art of meditation, yoga, chi gung and tai chi with masters of peak performance. Teaching thousands of individuals looking to de-stress, build resilience, and experience spiritual awakening. This led to individual coaching and group lessons that soon evolved into spiritual retreats, MBA and graduate level university courses, speaking and business workshops.
Dr. Bena coaches, speaks and consults individuals at some of the most successful companies, non-profits and universities on the planet, including Google, Amazon, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Black Rock, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, and Wharton Executive Education/INSEAD.
She enjoys helping clients and organizations' developing leadership, building resilience, cultural agility, inclusion and skills to thrive in change. She conducts research and writes science-based articles on long-term mindfulness, meditation, and yoga in leadership and at work.
She balances an active life with the quiet practice of silence, dedicated to the study of the mind and being within.
Contact: Bena Long Associates, www.drbena.com
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