What are elements of LIM’s coaching process?

How do LIM Executive Coaches work?

LIM coaches begin by first helping executives identify the areas where change is desired, and to frame their issues into focus questions. Clarity about the exact issue is paramount.

Then through a process of questioning, listening, observing, paraphrasing, summarizing and just-in-time suggestions we help our clients discover their needs, dream what can be, design a realistic yet challenging plan with clear next steps.

We support them as they implement the action plan, ensure that they learn throughout the process, and join as they celebrate their successes. We often use 360 feedback and other instruments during the coaching process. We combine face-to-face meetings, phone coaching, and e-coaching using our e-LIM platform to ensure confidentiality and access to helpful concepts and tools.

The process

All influential coaching interventions involve essential coach behaviors, use of tools and techniques. These results in the process being:   
       
• Organic and dynamic
This means that the coaching sessions focus on the current challenges and opportunities facing the executive

•    Appreciative
Rather than dwell on what is wrong or has to be fixed, the coach works to identify what is going well, what are the positive experiences and how the executive can learn from them

•    Integrated & Systemic 
The coach constantly looks for links, for patterns in behavior, and explores their applications and implications

•    Executive as a resource
We believe that the executive has most of the answers inside himself, and that it is the responsibility of the coach to access them by utilizing the executive's own experience and expertise as resources for future change

•    Sequential and continuous
Learning is incremental and ongoing, and it reveals itself over the course of the process

•    Transforming
Learning typically manifests itself as changed behavior, which can be further reinforced when it is passed on to others

•    Learning Style conscious
It is the role of the coach to get to know how the executive best learns, and to then provide learning opportunities for each learning style

•    Customer-focused
Every coachee has different needs and preferences; it is the job of the coach to customize the coaching experience to meet the specific needs of each individual

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