| Achieving Goals | | | | accomplish the results.o Explore what personal |
| Are you working in a company or law firm where | | | | leadership challenges the executive faces in |
| leadership requires people to establish goals when | | | | improving these results and team behaviors.o |
| engaged in an executive coaching relationship? | | | | Identify specific behaviors the leader needs to |
| How do leaders in your company or law firm | | | | enhance or change personally. |
| assess an individual's success in achieving goals in | | | | The goal setting process is not as easy as it may |
| their executive coaching program? | | | | appear. Many busy executives have a bias for |
| | | | action and operate in a fire-ready-aim mode. It |
| Linking Personal and Business Goals | | | | may be necessary for the executive to slow |
| There may be insufficient time and attention | | | | down long enough to establish clear goals. |
| during the contracting phase in defining goals and | | | | Sometimes a business situation is ambiguous and |
| outcomes for the coaching relationship. Surprisingly | | | | it is difficult to clarify what work process or |
| enough, many executives have trouble defining | | | | human relationship goals would support achieving |
| what they want out of coaching. | | | | the bottom-line result. The coach who persists in |
| There are two kinds of goals for leaders to work | | | | inquiring about these specific goals will help an |
| on in executive coaching - business goals and | | | | executive toward better focus and effective |
| personal goals. Getting external results is linked to | | | | action. |
| what the leader has to do differently in order to | | | | Working with a seasoned executive coach trained |
| get business results. The personal goals must | | | | in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership |
| follow the external business goals. | | | | assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-i and CPI |
| During the contracting phase with the executive, it | | | | 260 can help you become a leader who links |
| is the executive coach's responsibility to ensure | | | | personal and business goals. You can become a |
| that the goal-setting conversation is sequenced | | | | leader who models emotional intelligence and social |
| for best results.o Encourage the high potential | | | | intelligence, and who inspires people to become |
| leader to name the business results needed.o Find | | | | happily engaged and aligned with the vision and |
| out what team behaviors need to be different to | | | | mission of your company or law firm. |