Executive Coaching - Step Up to Board Level
Managing Director in a High Tech plc
The Company recognised a gap in succession planning for the top team.
Aims
The Company recognised a gap in succession planning for the top team.
The brief was to accelerate the progress of high potential Executives so they would be ready to step-up to wider responsibilities in leading bigger Divisions and taking positions on the board.
The brief included raising skills in the issues of politics, people and communication that came with the bigger role, and the issues of collective responsibility, influencing skills and stakeholder management that were needed at Board level.
Action
The coaching programme supported understanding and behavioural change on the following topic areas:
- stakeholder management especially Board colleagues
- Board governance and responsibilities
- Board skills and politics
- strategic planning and presentations
- managing the message
- painting big picture
- company rituals
Outcome
- Established within a year as recognised peers with longer-serving Board members
- Divisional strategy accepted and communicated to key stakeholders
- Results delivery increased through delegation and sustained as top performing business unit
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