Leadership Support and Development Service

Altius Coaching Group has a personalised, niche service specially targeted to the needs of busy CEO’s, Executives, Professionals and Business Owners.

This service is built on the latest thinking on leadership support and development, and insights from neuroscience, combined with the substantial experience and capability that the Altius Group has in senior executive and professional roles.

What Is It?

The Leadership Support and Development Service involves:

• a high achieving executive/professional client or a person with recognised high potential;
• an executive and leadership coach with substantial executive experience applying a variety of skills, techniques and methodologies that can support the client;
• a supportive, trusting and confidential relationship over a period of time that enables the client to improve their performance in areas of their choice and with reduced stress.

What are the Benefits?

This service provides benefits to both the individual client and their organisation through leadership support and development plus achievement of agreed, high impact goals. It can involve the further development of high achieving executives, or mentoring of high potential individuals. It can also provide an independent sounding board to a CEO, senior executive, professional or business owner.

The return on investment in this service can be substantial. In each individual case, target outcomes are agreed at the beginning. The measures of success can be both quantitative (e.g. goals achieved, increased income, lower costs), and qualitative (e.g. better communication, improved teamwork, improved feedback, reduced stress).

Specific benefits can include:

• increased clarity around key goals and strategies;
• developing more open communication styles;
• more effective, high impact and succinct conversations;
• increased innovation;
• more effective use of time and energy;
• reduced stress for the client and their staff;
• improved use of formal and informal feedback (e.g. 360 ° feedback).

Why Does It Work?

This support service works because of the powerful effect it has on the client’s thinking. The approaches used draw on the latest understandings on effective leadership, on developments in neuroscience that provide new insights on how the brain works, and on relatively new fields such as positive psychology. 

These approaches help the client to clarify thinking around priorities, and to work more strongly at the vision and planning levels. The process helps to avoid getting bogged in the detail, but assists movement towards optimal solutions, and wise, timely decisions. The coach provides support to the client, but at the same time, ensures the client is challenged, stimulated and stretched.

Who Supports You?

The lead provider of this niche, personalised service is Altius Coaching Group Director Kevin O’Loughlin. Originally trained as a meteorologist, Kevin has post-graduate qualifications in business management, and has served in senior executive roles in government, and as CEO of an innovative international research centre. He has experience as a company director, and in international programs and consultancies, and in dealing with the political process. He has introduced and managed successful change programs, and is widely recognised as a highly effective conference presenter and media communicator.

He is a qualified coach (Results Coaching Systems), has undertaken advanced training in executive coaching and the theoretical foundations of coaching. He is a member of the International Coaching Federation.

How Does It Work?

Each client has a support service that is tailored to their needs. The scoping takes account of relevant organisational needs and context.

After initial familiarisation and scoping, a program of coaching is designed around a few, challenging goals. Typically, this might be on two work specific goals and one personal goal. In subsequent sessions of one hour each, the coach supports the client in the development of strategies to achieve these goals, and the formulation of specific actions with timelines. The focus of the support can evolve as client needs change during the support program.

Sessions can take place off site or at the workplace, or by telephone if needed. The main requirement is that the client is able to give focused attention for the duration of each support session. At all times, the client has control over the process.

The frequency of sessions and duration of the program is flexible. A typical, successful formula to enable achievement of significant goals, and to fit with a client’s busy schedule is based around fortnightly sessions, spaced over a period of 6 months. This period also supports the development and maintenance of new habits the client may wish to adopt. The service includes support between sessions via email or shorter telephone conversations as required.

What Does It Cost?

The cost of this service depends on the individual program developed. In most cases, the cost will be equivalent to a few hours of consulting services per month, making it an extremely cost effective way of supporting key people in demanding roles. Detailed costings are provided after the initial scoping discussion.

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