Our Executive Coaching Process

Our executive coaches help you achieve your goals faster and enjoy the journey! We have found four key steps that have helped our many clients excel and move to the next level:

• Discovery
• Destination
• Equipment
• Path

Discovery is the exciting first step, which includes clarifying where you are now, and where you want to go or become. As an objective, seasoned professional with your best interest at heart, your executive coach works with you to discover and assess what you have working in your favor and anything that may getting in the way of achieving your goals. During discovery we identify any concerns that will prevent you from reaching your goals.

Destination represents your vision of where you want to arrive and what you want to become. This is the “better place” that inspires you to action. We help you refine and articulate your vision, do reality checks and determine what it will take to get there. Our coaching process is client-driven. Our goal is to help you get to where you want to go while avoiding the pitfalls that can hinder you. Our goal is to help you make your vision a reality. We help you identify measurable skills and behaviors that are important to you in reaching your destination.

Equipment for this important journey includes the talents you bring with you, plus the additional proven tools we provide that have helped other professionals just like yourself. Run where you are already strong! The powerful blend of your talents and the best practices of others we will share with you make a winning combination. We focus primarily on your natural strengths and talents. Our focus on your strengths gives you powerful leverage to achieve what is important to you. We also help you address and resolve any areas or flats spots that may be getting in the way of results you want. This is why our clients enjoy great results with our coaching.

Path is the course you will take to reach your destination. Most executives find this journey can be bumpy and at times even precarious. This is where the experience of your seasoned coach is invaluable. We work to establish a high level of candor and trust. We have no political agenda. There are times when you may struggle with something that can derail you from the path completely. These could be behaviors that will be barriers to reaching your destination. When we discover such barriers that could block you from reaching your destination, we go to work in that area. If you veer off your path, your coach is there to help you re-focus and get going again.

Benefits of The Duncan Company's Executive Coaching

Strength-based: We have seen significant value in working where you are already capable and strong and helping you take that strength to a higher level. Our clients are energized by working on what they already do well. We work together to create systems and processes to address the other areas that need attention rather than spending precious time and other resources on trying to master skills that may not be an existing talent. Where there are serious blind spots getting in the way of results, we need to surface and resolve them; however, our primary focus will be to use your strengths to achieve better results.

Access: You have access to your coach not only at your scheduled calls or meetings, but in-between those sessions as needed. This “on call” access to your personal coach (without the meter running) has helped numerous clients deal with tough issues real time.

Focus: Your coach helps you stay focused on what is really important to you. We help remove distractions and barriers to your plan.

Accountability: Follow-up on assignments during regular coaching calls accelerates progress and propels you toward your destination. We hold you accountable when others in your organization may be reluctant to do so.

Rifle versus Shotgun: We work only on the highest leverage issues that are important to you and your success. We introduce the right tools at the right time. There is no need to burden you with overload. We have coached many executives and are sensitive to busy schedules.

Comfort Zone: Just like a personal trainer working with a world class athlete, we will nudge you out of your comfort zone. We not only comfort the afflicted, but afflict the comfortable to help our clients improve their performance and results.

Celebration: Your coach will celebrate your successes and milestones along the path. This objective perspective can be helpful to see how much progress you have made and what is still needed. You will have time to reflect on what has happened. We want you to see the benefits of introspection that will sustain you. After the celebration, we go to work on the next phase of the journey.

Learn more:
- Our Approach to Coaching
- 10 Ways to Get the Most from Your Coaching
- Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Coach
- Our Executive Coaching Process