Our Executive Coaching Services
Deep C provides executive coaching for business leaders who wish to work through their challenges at a deeper level, in service of improving their performance, their capacity for change and their sense of well-being.
BUILDING CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
Examples of our work:
- A leader seeking to exert greater influence in their matrix structure
- An executive wanting to shift traditional and risk-averse mindsets amongst members of his newly inherited team
- A senior manager who simply can’t ‘let go’ and who acknowledges that he is on the fast-track to burnout
NAVIGATING CHANGE AND TRANSITION IN LEADERSHIP CAREERS
Examples of our work:
- A respected senior leader who fails to make the anticipated impact six months into his new role
- A valued executive who has lost their motivation and focus and considers quitting
- A senior leader who is transitioning to their first executive role and who is under pressure to ‘hit the ground running’
CREATING A NEW AND DISRUPTIVE LEADERSHIP AGENDA
Examples of our work include:
- An executive whose performance suddenly deteriorates after years of hard work secures her first CEO role….
- The executive who unwittingly sends morale into slow decline as the new strategy starts to bite
- The CEO-designate who has to navigate a complex web of stakeholders, while formulating his transformation agenda
OUR APPROACH
A leader’s capacity for change and development can be affected by what we refer to as their ‘psychological operating system’ (POS).
The POS acts as an interface between our ‘hardware’ (brain, body, nervous system) and ‘software’ (thoughts, feelings, perceptions, emotions). It assigns meaning to these software programmes, based, for example, on defensive patterns, unconscious biases, unresolved conflicts and internalised anxieties and fears.
Running on mental ‘scripts’, the POS is often influenced by an individual’s early relationships and significant life experiences. The behaviour patterns laid down by these scripts have a habit of repeating themselves in other contexts. They can become unhelpful, blocking effective performance and even sabotaging a leader’s reputation along the way.
From a coaching perspective, breakthroughs in performance can only arise from working at depth with such issues. Without support to install ‘updates’ to the leader’s POS, any change will inevitably be cosmetic and unsustainable.
THE BENEFITS
We help develop business leaders by encouraging them to:
- Understand themselves better as a person and as a leader
- Align themselves more effectively to the dynamics of their role and the wider organisation
- View the problems and paradoxes facing them from a more insightful and helpful perspective
- Appreciate the less obvious aspects of their situation at work, considering what might really be going on
- Change the way they show up in relationships at work and take up their authority as a leader
- Become more resilient, engaged and effective at work.
“My coach was the ‘real deal’ and encouraged me to bring my best to the table. He developed a deep understanding of what makes me tick as an individual – and what drives me as a leader – raising issues that nobody had discussed with me in the past….A lot of people in the company take what I say as gospel but my coach frequently made me feel ‘caught on the carpet’….This was an essential ingredient for the personal transformation that resulted from the coaching process….”.
VP, INTERNATIONAL TECH COMPANY
For further details of our executive coaching services and how we can help your organisation develop its business leaders, please contact us.