Focused Coaching

Curriculum-based Skills Acquisition

 

Your Challenge

Organizations looking to face change head-on and drive transformational improvement face a significant challenge: engaging and developing employees at scale. 

Taking an individualized approach to leadership development leads to organizational progress that is slow, siloed, and often disconnected from enterprise goals. To compete and win, organizations need real solutions designed to help leaders develop together. 

Drive Transformation With Focused Coaching 

Focused Coaching is an organizational development tool that combines leadership coaching with workplace simulations to support groups of leaders in acquiring and developing the skills needed to move your organization forward. 

By fully integrating coaching with the practice component enabled by simulations, Focused Coaching impacts not just the individual but the organization, delivering personalized learning and measurable data that tracks actual progress toward goals, not just anecdotal feedback from managers. 

 

How it Works

Engagements begin with a discovery to determine the leadership behaviors that will accelerate your business transformation. Based on this analysis, we customize a curriculum pathway for participants to go through using a library of coaching protocols, simulations, and on-the-job practice opportunities.

 

Coaching 

Participants use coaching to develop skills, review their simulations, deepen their capabilities, and plan their on-the-job use of the defined skill.

Simulations

Participants practice the identified skills using simulations from Mursion to interact with human-led avatars in conversational scenarios modeled after real-world situations leaders typically encounter.  

Practice 

Participants, guided by their coach, find opportunities to practice the defined skill on the job in their day-to-day work and interactions.

Our Approach

We know that leadership coaching works and that practice is essential to growth. The power of Focused Coaching is the synergy created when both aspects are fully integrated. Focused coaching incorporates the structure of a well-run organizational transformation with the personalized learning that is at the core of leadership coaching while providing organizations with data to measure progress.

Each engagement includes:  

Discovery


Prior to engaging with a group of leaders, we develop a clear understanding of the goals and specific capabilities needed to support organizational strategy and transformation.

Focused Coaching Interventions

Individual coaching sessions include the assignment of on-the job homework in between sessions to enhance the participant’s practice. Skill-building simulations include a measurement of progress provide a safe environment to acquire and develop new capabilities and are reviewed by the coach to provide additional feedback.

Post-Work + Measurement 

After the final coaching session, we gather input from each participant’s coach and measure the impact of the program on the specific leadership capabilities the organization identified. Coach feedback and scorecards are rolled into a group report providing a clear understanding of how development has progressed through the organization and identifying potential next development priorities.

 

See Focused Coaching in Action

Get an inside look at the power of combining simulations and coaching, and see how Focused Coaching can drive transformation for your organization.

The Focused Coaching demo walks you through:

  • How simulations are used to provide personalized feedback in coaching sessions

  • How participants develop through practice, coaching, and homework

  • How we provide consistent, skills-based measurement tied to your business goals

 

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