Executive Coaching
Protégé Management is a specialist coaching company that uses only coaches that have the proven history of running their own sizeable companies. Our coaching abilities are enhanced by having been owner/managing directors with first hand knowledge of what a lonely, demanding, stressful and rewarding position it is.
Protégé Management coaching is delivered face-to-face only! We believe that executive coaching given over the telephone or via email is less effective, less personal and can add to the problems that were initially being addressed. Face-to-face means total focus, total commitment and a much more effective coaching programme.
Executive coaching packages
Coaching is a process that can be offered in different contexts and different environments. We can work with individuals or teams on your own premises or at a suitable 'off-site' location. Which would suit you best? We can provide team or personal development programmes - or we can work on a specific project, dealing with an issue or preparing for an event. Which would suit you best? We are so confident that our sessions with you will bring improved personal and business performance that we have developed a price structure where you decide on the value we have delivered and what that should cost you!
Why do employers use it for their employees?
What motivates employers to commission executive coaching? What is it they hope to gain? There are six main motives for organisations or companies in introducing executive coaching. These are:
- to support the induction or appointment of a senior person into a more senior or different role
- to accelerate the personal development of individuals defined as 'high potential' or individuals from a minority group identified for affirmative action
- to underpin the effective implementation of organisation change through supporting teams and individuals
- as a critical friend or independent sounding board to a senior individual
- to support senior individuals engaged in wider personal effectiveness programmes, such as 360-degree appraisal or development centres
- as a means of rewarding and retaining key staff critical to the business
The reasons for the phenomenal growth in the use of executive coaching by employing organisations include:
- increasingly pressurised environments (productivity focus, extensive legislative requirements, more awareness of employee rights, etc.) resulting in 'lonely' and isolated senior managers who welcome support and challenge from someone external to their immediate work environment
- the increasing demand by organisations for senior managers with key 'soft skills'. Many business schools and in-company standard development programmes have failed to embed the kinds of feedback-based approaches necessary for self-insight and the acquisition of soft skills for managers when they were more junior
- Some senior managers consider they have 'made it' and worry that being seen to undergo development may be perceived by others as admitting they have a weakness. The nature of the executive coaching relationship is private and avoids that public gaze
- Attendance on whole-day courses or regular learning sets can seem an imposition into an already busy schedule. Sessions with executive coaches can be fitted around other diary commitments
Want to know more? To discuss how we can help you, book some coaching or set up an initial meeting then please contact us.
News
Case Study - increasing participation from local suppliers »
Less than 2% of UK businesses come up to the mark »
Trained to tender thanks to funding from Winchester City Council »
Looking to get ISO quickly? – find out more about ISO in a Box »
Protégé talks to "Growth Point" Magazine [pdf] 
»