Organizations need effective management. These individuals play a key role in the overall success of the organization. Management often get caught up in day-to-day tasks, rather than focusing on their role as leader. Understanding that their job is a people business, and that if they focus on the people, as well as the strategy, then business takes care of itself. To help managers and executives make effective contributions to their organizations, AE provides Performance Coaching for employees in management or executive level positions. Performance Coaching is a one to one professional relationship designed to help individuals in key positions achieve desired results. It is designed to fit the specific needs of the individual and the organization.

1. What Performance Coaching Provides

• Understand their role as an executive and leader
• Understand their unique combination of traits and characteristics and how these impact their leadership style
• Learn to align their goals with the organization’s goals to achieve desired results
• Identify opportunities to practice and enhance their skills
• Identify barriers that may be preventing them from realizing their potential
• Set objectives and means to measure results
• Develop a plan to reach these objectives
• Monitor and evaluate progress

2. The process of Performance Coaching

• Initial meeting between the coach and the executive to discuss the coaching process and to begin to develop a trusting relationship
• Assessment: Gathering feedback from others, self evaluations, inventories of preferences and style, instruments to evaluate specific skills like the 360 degree peer review, and other methods to define the individual's current performance and skills profile
• Meetings with the coach to review assessments, identify focus areas, set goals and develop strategies to achieve goals