Executive Coaching

Why Executive Coaching? Who wants an Executive Coach?

Leadership is complex today. Christian schools are full of people with good hearts and very different agendas and skill sets. How does a Christian school leader navigate the needs of children, adults, parents/families, Boards? What better encouragement can there be than to have a skilled professional alongside for conversation, prayer, advice and counsel, listening? This is often referenced by Paul who was provided support by Timothy, Silas, and in the letter to Timothy, by Onesiphorus:

“May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.”

What does Executive Coaching look like?

Coaching / feedback sessions are typically 60 minutes per month with 30 minutes of feedback time between coaching sessions and might include:

• Review of progress made
• Data analysis
• Review of personal/professional health
• Issues and suggestions
• Planning going forward
• Prayer

What are the outcomes, the return on investment?

• Hope and confidence about the path being taken
• New insights into personal and professional skills, attitudes, mental models
• Practical, doable, and believable ways of looking at the challenges in the daily and strategic work
• Enhanced relationships with and between the coachees and their direct reports

Executive Coaching has five objectives:

1. To listen keenly, to appreciate the challenges being faced, and to be a sounding board
2. To help keep the focus centered on Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life
3. To help understand the importance of “wellness” in personal and family life – living a life of commitment and balance in both areas
4. To provide expertise that will help find solutions in the tactical advancement operations, i.e. providing possible options to the question What do I do now?
5. To provide expertise that will help find solutions in the strategic advancement operations of the school

Caveats:

• The Executive Coach is not running your school or department
• The Executive Coach is not a psychologist, family therapist, or trained counselor
• The Executive Coach provides advice and counsel – the individual/team decides, acts, and follows through

Your CSM Executive Coach promises:

1. To listen well
2. To hold all communications confidential unless given permission to share
3. To provide advice and counsel from a coaching vantage point
4. To pray for you