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Keeping a Leader On Track: Interventional Coaching

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Turnover at the executive level is expensive and disruptive. The average cost to replace an executive is three times his/her salary and the organizational turmoil that is caused is almost inestimable.

Interventional coaching is a viable option for preventing a potential high performer from derailing and causing loss and disturbance to the organization.

Interventional Coaching

Interventional coaching engages the coachee’s leader in the process in a much more active role than in developmental coaching. The process is more focused on goals that are agreed upon by the leader, the coachee, and the coach. The meetings alternate between private meetings with the coach and the coachee, and meetings that include the leader.

Typically the process includes:

• Initial meeting with the coachee’s leader to confirm needs.
• Coach meeting with coachee privately to begin to establish relationship.
• Coach, coachee, and leader meeting together to establish goals and objectives of coaching program.
• Administration and interpretation of assessment materials.
• Coach and coachee begin in-depth coaching on a regular weekly or biweekly basis, analyze data, identify style and personality issues and determine how those issues promote or detract from the individual’s effectiveness, and create a plan to address goals and objectives that are surfaced.
• Periodic meetings with the coachee, the leader, and the coach to ensure that progress is being made in the areas of concern for the organization.

Interventional coaching is a proven method to produce behavioral change in individuals. When the person who is struggling is a valuable leader in your organization, you will typically see a high return on investment.