UGM executive coaching Case Studies
Meeting the specific needs of clients means that UGM embarks on a wide array of assignments. Our Case Studies represent a small cross-section of our portfolio of experience, providing brief insights into how we have helped many clients. Contact us to learn about the numerous other projects we've worked on over 30 years in business.
What sort of situations can benefit from coaching support?
In thinking about our answer to this common question, we felt it would be useful if we simply opened our files and shared with you some of the quite diverse issues and motivations that our clients have brought to their executive coaching relationships with us in the last couple of years. Maybe one or more of these will resonate with you. Here’s a glimpse into our files.
- Role transition: A competent technical expert is transitioning into a more senior role where now she will now have to engage a much wider set of stakeholders and step into a significant management challenge, with a relatively short time frame to deliver business results. She knows that just because she has excelled technically and professionally in the past, doesn’t mean this step up into a pure management role will be a breeze.
- CEO strategic challenge: A CEO is embarking on a new appointment where the organization needs to turn around its current poor performance and set a new course for success. The CEO can see that not only will he need to design a compelling vision, he will also need to engage people and take them on this transformational journey with him.
- High performing team: A senior manager needs to find ways to raise the performance level of her very diverse team and secure their commitment. This team is facing a major change but team members are hampered by low morale, an unwillingness to take risks and unresolved conflicts, a legacy from past problems in the team.
- Succeeding at the top: A talented and ambitious woman has secured a high profile role in an organization where most of the senior people are men. While she has the support of the CEO and the Board, she feels under scrutiny and is determined to succeed. There are some significant obstacles in her way and she wants a portfolio of tools that will help her step into the role, while maintaining her own authenticity and sense of self.
- Changing course: A senior executive finds himself at a career crossroads. The job that was once exciting now feels draining, taking its toll on his sense of well-being and even on his family life. He wants to get back in touch with his values and decide what might come next in a long career full of achievements. He feels he wants to reset his compass and find a new direction.
- Becoming a leader: A group of high potential future leaders have begun a year-long development program and they need tailored, individual coaching to help them put into practice ‘on the job’ the new skills they are learning. Each has particular strengths but also gaps in their personal skills as managers of people and as leaders. They want to be stretched and challenged.
- Closing a performance gap: A senior manager has recently had negative feedback from the CEO. It’s clear that the executive will need to demonstrate some new behaviours if the CEO is to retain faith in him. The executive himself wants to stay in this organization and sees a potentially bright future for himself there. So he’s motivated to do things differently but doesn’t quite know where to start or how to go about it.
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