Executive Coaching Framework

Self-understanding

An awareness of my own motives, values, attitudes, belief system, physical self, competencies, self-concept, personality and unconscious biases and how it impacts my decision-making processes and behaviours.

Managing unconscious bias

Unconscious bias, also known as implicit bias, is a learned assumption, belief, or attitude that exists in the subconscious. Everyone has these biases and uses them as mental shortcuts for faster information-processing. Managing unconscious bias, involves 4 phases: Unconscious bias – Conscious bias – Conscious openness – Unconscious openness.

Discernment

An ability to consider all relevant variables and to distinguish between good and bad, right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate, to promote sound judgement and decision-making.

Remaining in the present

The ability to consciously remove all competing thoughts or distractions from your mind, in order to focus fully and exclusively on the one thought / task that requires your attention now.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness involves a conscious self-understanding, an awareness of the demands of challenges that I am facing, managing my unconscious biases, discernment in judgement and decision-making, agility to deal effectively with challenges and to remain in the presence when dealing with challenges.

Self-management

Capitilising on self-understanding, managing unconscious bias, applying mindfulness and discernment while remaining in the presence, to promote effective decision-making and selecting the most effective behaviours to deal with any challenges I am facing.

Time management

The ability to identify, prioritise, structure and allocate the appropriate amount and quality time frames to mental and physical activities that demands my attention, in such a way that it facilitates the most effective utilisation of my available time and energy resources.

Agility

The ability to practice a variety of decision-making processes and behavioural patterns and the flexibility to select and apply the most appropriate decision-making processes and behavioural patterns to deal effectively with any given challenge or situation.

Making emotional impact on people

To recognise, understand and manage the impact of emotion on people to influence their thinking, decision-making and behaviour towards achieving mutually desired results.

Business relationship management

To recognise, understand and manage the impact of emotion on behaviour in order to connect and engage with customers, create great customer experiences, build life-long relationships and generate repeat business in the experience economy.

Defining purpose: Life purpose, career purpose

To define your purpose in life and to align your career purpose with your purpose in life, in order to serve a meaningful purpose and leave a legacy at the end of your career and life.

Defining career goals

To set specific goals for every phase of your career, in order to ensure that every phase of your career contributes towards your career purpose.

Career development

To conduct career planning by designing career paths, creating career route maps and apply career management, by competency development and gaining relevant experience to promote career mobility, in order to achieve career goals and serve a meaningful purpose.

Maintaining balance in all spheres of life

To establish all the dimensions of your realities that affects the quality of your life and to ensure that each of these dimensions are allocated the right amount of time and resources required to contribute towards a meaningful purpose, to enjoy your life journey, to experience peace of mind and to leave a satisfying legacy.

Creative thinking skills

The ability to apply both divergent and convergent thinking skills to generate original ideas, methods, devices or solutions to serve as foundation for innovation and change.

Systems thinking skills

The ability to identify and analyse the inter-relationships between all the elements of a system in order to identify leverage areas that a leader could apply to change the system.

Strategic thinking skills

The ability to apply system 2 thinking in order to identify, analyse and consider all applicable variables in making complex decisions that will have a serious impact on an organisation’s long-term sustainability and growth.

Emotional Intelligence in leadership

To enable business leaders to recognise, understand and manage the impact of emotion on behaviour in order to connect, direct, influence, mobilise and empower team members to achieve great business results.

Strategic leadership skills

To apply creative, systems and strategic thinking skills for providing direction by creating vision, compiling plans and influencing people’s belief systems, decision-making processes and behaviour, in order to empower an organisation to turn vision into reality and ensure long term sustainability and growth.

Transformational leadership

To enable leaders to create compelling visions, create alignment of purpose, engage employees, manage the emotional impact of change on people and to motivate, encourage, energise and empower team members to turn vision into
reality.

Team leadership

To enable leaders to understand and manage the impact of team dynamics on business results in order to build a supportive business culture, that will turn good teams into great teams and produce superior business results.

Change management skills

The ability to identify and analyse change forces, to anticipate need for innovation and change, to pro-actively initiate change and to manage the emotional impact of change on people, in order to ensure the long-term sustainability and growth of an organisation.

Developing an entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial mindset

Creating an e(i)ntrapreneurial culture where self-motivated employees are allowed to challenge paradigms and take initiative to pro-actively explore new business opportunities in order to generate additional revenue streams.

Business development processes and skills

The ability to facilitate business planning processes, defining roles and responsibilities, designing organisational structures, designing business models, structuring business processes, developing remuneration and performance management processes and implementing sound business management practices.