Transformative Executive Coaching Services

Keller's Executive Coaching Services

Our executive coaching services provide a safe, structured, and supportive environment in which leaders can equip themselves for the future, developing skills that will allow them to thrive and make a real difference in today’s dynamic business landscape. Our extensive industry expertise enables us to simplify and streamline the process of onboarding new leaders and prepare candidates for the step up to enterprise and C-suite roles.

After assessing our client’s personal and professional goals, strengths and weaknesses, we design a unique service package to meet their needs. This may comprise the following programs that Keller offers as part of our executive coaching services:

1. Career Transition Coaching

Navigating a career change, promotion, or transition into a new role can be daunting. Career transition coaching offers guidance to executives during these shifts, helping them align their career aspirations with organizational goals, handle the emotional aspects of change, and establish a roadmap for success in their new roles. It typically involves conducting personalized assessments to identify potential gaps, transferable skills, and areas that require improvement.

2. Communication and Influence Coaching

Effective communication is a vital soft skill for any leader. This type of career coaching focuses on developing both verbal and non-verbal communication skills, equipping leaders with the ability to influence both internal teams and external stakeholders.

It includes training to improve public speaking, presentation skills, and interpersonal communication. It also teaches leaders how to use persuasive language, develop conflict resolution skills, and use body language to align verbal and non-verbal messages.

Additionally, participants develop their active listening and empathy to build stronger relationships, fostering an environment of trust and collaboration that can drive organizational success.

3. Conflict Resolution and Team Dynamics Coaching

Conflict resolution coaching develops the client’s skill at handling conflict, or supports them in working through a particularly difficult or complex conflict. It offers strategies and techniques for managing and resolving conflicts constructively. It also teaches executives how to identify underlying issues, mediate disputes, and implement solutions that benefit all parties involved.

Furthermore, this coaching service focuses on enhancing team dynamics by promoting effective communication, trust-building, and collaboration. By addressing conflict proactively, leaders can foster a positive work environment that encourages innovation, accountability, and collective problem-solving.

4. Leadership Development Coaching

Leadership development involves empowering individuals and teams by enhancing their leadership and decision-making abilities. The goal is to develop leaders who are more adept at managing their entire organizations and responding to the evolving challenges of modern business.

This service commences with a comprehensive evaluation of the leader’s current competencies and areas for improvement. Then, through tailored coaching sessions, the executive develops their strategic thinking and ability to make high-stakes decisions, helping them lead their organizations more effectively.

5. Onboarding Coaching

Onboarding coaching is a structured process that helps accelerate the assimilation of new hires into senior leadership roles. It reduces possible risks and ensures candidates are poised for success at the onset. This type of service involves working closely alongside the incoming executive, HR, and leadership team to set goals and performance targets and establishing clear priorities and expectations. It identifies strengths and implements training to bridge gaps, while also helping new leaders understand cultural nuances, driving principles, and potential pitfalls.

6. Performance Coaching

Upper-level managers and executives, who have reached the top of their careers, are in a unique position. Many rely on them, yet they have no one to support them when they encounter challenges. This is why they often need help from an unbiased expert: a performance coach.

Performance coaches work closely with their clients to boost their overall performance while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. They also help them to identify productivity barriers, develop effective time-management techniques, and optimize their daily routines.

Essentially, this coaching service aims to give leaders all the resources and support they need to streamline workflows and maximize their contribution to the business while avoiding burnout.

Consult Keller’s Insights below for additional information and thought leadership on executive coaching.

How Keller Assists Leaders: Our Executive Coaching Process

At its core, executive leadership coaching is a confidential relationship between a qualified coach and an executive client, aimed at fostering personal and professional growth. As such, it is one of the most personalized practices in talent development. While each coaching engagement is unique, Keller follows a general framework comprised of the following steps to ensure a focused, effective experience:

1. Initial Assessment and Goal Setting

We begin the coaching process with a detailed assessment of our client’s current situation, strengths and weaknesses, personal and professional objectives, and relationships. This helps us understand their needs and set clear coaching objectives.

Our evaluation may include self-assessments, psychometric tests, and gathering 360-degree feedback from supervisors, colleagues, and direct reports. Drawing on our evaluations, we work with our executive to establish clear, measurable objectives for the coaching engagement. These objectives guide the entire process, ensuring the coaching remains focused and aligns with both the executive’s needs and overall business goals.

2. Creating a Customized Coaching Plan

Once goals have been set, Keller’s executive coaches design a personalized coaching plan that highlights key focus areas and development opportunities, details the strategies and techniques to be applied, and explains how progress and success will be tracked. It also includes a timeline and milestones for the coaching engagement. However, it remains flexible and can be adapted as coaching progresses or priorities shift.

3. Ongoing Support and Evaluation

The final step is the crux of the executive coaching process where our coach connects with the executive during regular one-on-one sessions. In these sessions, our coach offers feedback, guidance, and support while the executive gets the opportunity to practice new behaviors and skills.

Together, they will explore the challenges and opportunities the executive is currently facing, review progress towards goals, and refine the development plan when needed. Each session is confidential to encourage open dialogue and cultivate meaningful personal growth. In between coaching sessions, the executive applies their new insights and follows through on agreed-upon tasks, ensuring continuous learning throughout the coaching engagement.

The executive client may also require team coaching, with the goal of helping them develop their team-building skills. Our executive coaching engagements may also involve other important stakeholders in our client’s business.

The Benefits of Executive Coaching

Executive coaching has emerged as an important resource among organizations looking to nurture their top talent and drive sustainable success. By offering personalized guidance and support, executive coaching helps leaders overcome obstacles, navigate their often complex roles, and maximize their potential. Executive coaching also offers a host of additional benefits for both the individual and the organization:

1. Enhanced Leadership Skills

Executive coaching allows leaders to develop and refine critical skills such as communication, decision-making, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence.

2. Improved Professional Performance

By addressing blind spots and capitalizing on natural strengths, executive coaching can lead to a significant improvement in individual performance. This is often reflected in clearer communication and the attainment of goals.

3. Better Communication and Team Dynamics

Enhanced communication skills can help build better relationships with team members, stakeholders, and clients. It can also help develop a leader’s executive presence, which is useful for boosting employee morale and rallying support around company objectives.

4. External Perspective

Executive coaches act as mirrors, facilitators and trusted advisors, offering clear, unbiased feedback to their clients. They do not influence their clients, but rather work with them to move them towards identifying and overcoming the barriers that are preventing them from performing optimally. Thanks to their external perspective, they can provide equal amounts of challenge and support to their clients.

5. Greater Adaptability

Coaching equips leaders with the tools and resources to navigate today’s constantly shifting business environment, helping them lead their teams with confidence through periods of change and uncertainty.

6. Accelerated Professional Growth

Executive coaching can fast-track career development by helping leaders identify and seize new opportunities. It also offers support for career transitions.

7. Personal Benefits

Individuals who participate in executive coaching acquire insights into their values, behaviors, and impact on others, which can improve the way they lead their teams. They also gain heightened self-awareness, improved self-regulation, higher levels of empathy, increased motivation, enhanced social skills, and a boost in cognition at work.

8. Boost in Team Performance

Organizations benefit just as much from executive coaching as individuals since it leads to enhanced productivity, employee engagement, and overall business outcomes.

Why Partner with Keller for your Executive Coaching Needs?

Keller’s long-standing reputation for executive search and leadership development forms the backbone of our executive coaching services. With many years of experience identifying and empowering top talent, we offer valuable insights into the growth opportunities and strengths of leaders. This profound understanding informs our entire coaching process.

Another reason to partner with Keller is our holistic, data-driven approach. We utilize cutting-edge assessments and a tailored methodology, ensuring each coaching engagement meets every client’s unique needs. Furthermore, we continually refine our strategies through continuous feedback, which enables us to adapt our coaching in real time, cultivating both immediate and long-term improvements.

As mentioned, all our coaching programs are customized and client-oriented. We believe that individualized coaching is most effective when it aligns with specific business objectives and personal career goals. This personalized approach ensures that our leaders not only reach their professional targets but also develop in their roles in a way that is authentic to their specific leadership style.

Ultimately, we are dedicated to helping leaders make a lasting impact on their firms by focusing on their sustained growth, providing a transformative coaching experience that contributes to organizational success.

Engage our executive coaching services today and discover how it can assist your leaders and organization in reaching new heights.