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Managing Director
My Agenda:
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I want to make my management team, more effective.
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I need to have greater influence with my board.
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Being new to the job I could use a sounding board.
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I enjoy being M.D., but feel quite isolated.
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I'm too aggressive with some of my management team and
it's not effective.
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I need to plan for my succession, but I'm not clear what
I need to do.
What can I do?
As the Managing Director, these may be some of the issues
that you currently face. In some situations you maybe in a
position to involve some of your senior managers or the Company
Chairperson in developing answers to these questions. However
on occasion this may not be appropriate.
Coaching may offer you the opportunity to consider
these issues and allow you to advance your thinking before
raising them with the relevant audience. In this context the
use of a coach can help you frame the issue, clarify
your options and consider the most appropriate action to take.
The role of a good coach is to operate as a sounding board,
in a confidential and discreet environment. Through active
listening and constructive questioning the opportunity exists
to reframe an opportunity or challenge in order to find the
most effective solution open to you.
As you will be aware, the coach is not the expert and is not
there to give advice. Rather the coach acts as a facilitator
in order to assist you in identifying the most effective approach
to take. This means that an effective coach does not try to
''second guess' your knowledge of the business or the people
involved. In addition a coach can provide a useful
role in providing an outside perspective to the particular
issue, under consideration.
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