IMPACT STORY Coaching Executives: Building Emotional Intelligence How a Global Airline Developed Emotionally Intelligent Leaders via an Integrated Coaching Solution
The Challenge The Columbia Leadership Group was engaged by a major global airline to design, develop, deliver, and administer an integrated coaching solution to build emotional and social intelligence in its senior leaders. CLG was engaged to remedy a common situation: the organization s leaders were overusing command and control leadership resulting in lower employee engagement, retention and business performance. The integrated coaching solution s purpose: Identify and verify leadership developmental areas for the senior leadership population Embed a robust end-to-end coaching process to develop leadership capabilities and support leaders in enhancing business results Select, train, and manage coaches in consistent, results-achieving methodology Handle administration of coaching including, billing, scheduling, assessments, and evaluation Ground the coaching work in leaders day-to-day business context Change the corporate culture from command & control to listen & influence Accelerate the core business strategy through faster implementation of business critical projects via coached leaders 2
The Approach CLG conducted a focused needs assessment, including interviews and shadowing of key stakeholders and a cross-section of executives, to identify the leadership DNA needed to successfully lead talent and deliver on the business strategy. The needs assessment identified the need for: Managing Talent Managing Relationships Co-Creating Relationships Co-Creating Relationships: Empathy, Rapport and Communication Managing Relationships: Developing Others, Managing Conflict, Influencing without Authority, Collaborating Managing Talent: Motivation, Empowerment, Hiring, Building Synergies CLG designed an integrated coaching approach including: Standardized coach selection, training in CLG s methodology, and management, including assimilating existing airline coaches Executive coaching for 140 executives for 12-18 months, one session every two weeks, expanded to all leaders in phase 2 Facilitation of individual Action Coaching Projects (on-the-job learning vehicles) focused on delivering on the business strategy by leading through Emotional & Social Intelligences Shadowing exemplary leaders (role models of desired leadership behaviors) within the organization Ongoing assessment and feedback sessions with leaders (before coaching, directly after, 3, 6, 12 months after) 3
The Impact CLG conducted an ongoing comprehensive evaluation through surveys and interviews with a cross-section of participants, managers, projects sponsors and coaches. The evaluation showed: Successful establishment of an immersive coaching process designed to meet the development needs of senior-level leaders and to drive business impact Creation of a common language and metrics for evaluating leaders, enabling open discussion among senior leaders and building consensus about the profile of the company s next-generation senior leaders Development of senior leaders was accelerated and aligned with the business strategy shown through increased execution of strategy and better business results A stable team of senior leaders who were effectively executing the strategy Leadership development and succession planning becoming more systemic CLG s approach to coaching was always driving business impact, even while focusing on softer skills such as Emotional Intelligence simultaneously -CHRO 4
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