Leader As Coach Program

Giving leaders the skills they need now to become legacy leaders in the future.

Testimonials

To coach a team collectively, which you don’t know, is some kind of Jedi force!! What I really appreciated about Michelle was her active listening as she always had great follow up questions to the comments we each made, and on a couple of occasions she landed really powerful questions… which arrested us to become reflective in the moment.”

GSK Global Medical Affairs

SVP

I really appreciated Michelle’s courage to challenge us as a group, and especially to remind us each of our accountability to both set and achieve our personal goals.

Optinose

Regional Director

I wish she could have heard first hand the buzz after the session as it would have been both humbling and rewarding in equal measure.

Optinose

National Director

Know Where You Stand

Self reflection and self evaluation is an essential
leadership skillset. In order to grow and excel leaders
need an internal system of self- evaluation so they
understand how to manage the professional
development efforts. We have developed an assessment
tool that provides such an opportunity.

Self-Assessment

Great leaders know high-performance comes from frequent, meaningful conversations with their employees.

They know what to talk about because they know their people well, which sparks the conversations that
improve performance and build genuine relationships.

Unfortunately only about 2 in 10 leaders intuitively understand how to engage employees, develop their strengths and set clear expectations through everyday conversations. In effect, only about 2 in 10 leaders instinctively know how to coach. (Gallup study)

Great-Leaders

Introducing Leader as Coach

A coaching culture builds leaders who are exceptional at motivating and inspiring their
teams to bring out their very best. Our Leader as Coach program helps leaders learn
how to develop trust quickly, deliver quality one-on-ones, leverage the strengths
of individuals on their team, and develop a growth mindset that improves employee
engagement and provides consistent growth.

People are 4 times more likely to do or
act on something if they have thought
of it themselves.

An analysis of 49,495 business units with 1.2 million employees across 22 organizations
in seven industries and 45 countries and found that great managers are completely
different from adequate ones.

Gallup study
In brief, they’re not bosses.
Bossing is the least of what they do and a last, unwelcome, resort.

Rather, these leaders are coaches.
And coaching is distinct from bossing, Gallup’s research shows, in 3 key ways:
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Coaches focus on individual and team engagement,
seeing their role as the provider of what employees
need to succeed. Whether by training or preternatural
talent — or, ideally, both — they know the 12 elements of
engagement by heart and deliver them.

 

Bosses, on the other hand, usually just tell people what
to do.

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Coaches understand, leverage and get great
satisfaction from deploying the unique talents and
strengths of each employee. Great leaders are always
developing and positioning talent to maximize outcomes, and they get extraordinary results from it: Workers who know and use their strengths average 10% to 19% increased sales and 14% to 29% increased profit, among other bottom-line results.

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Coaches set clear expectations and performance goals, offering feedback that optimizes individual strengths (a rare practice, as only 26% of employees say the feedback they get helps them do better work) and increases team effectiveness.
 
Bosses, however, typically watch for opportunities to correct or punish employees whose performance doesn’t measure up.

The decision making workload of a
leader who effectively uses a coaching approach
can be reduced by up to 50%

University of Bath Study

A coaching culture builds leaders who are exceptional at motivating and inspiring their
teams to bring out their very best. Our Leader as Coach program helps leaders learn
how to develop trust and create psychological safety with their teams, engage
employees in coaching conversations while also providing feedback, and develop a
growth mindset that improves employee engagement and accelerates performance.

Introducing Leader as a Coach
Program

4 Full Days

Day 01

Building Trust &
Active Listening

Day 02

Purposeful
Questions

Day 03

Providing
Feedback

Day 04

Developing Talent
& Managing Performance

Bonus Day*

Coaching The Middle

Four, 90 minute Group coaching circles for participants
following each session to embed content.

Learn More about what Leader As a
Coach can do for your organization.

Stephanie Laplante

Stephanie is an experienced talent management executive with significant business experience in a large multi-national healthcare company. She is a highly sought after and trusted advisor to senior executives who want to become better leaders, who lead large-scale, complex transformational change, and who want to engage and align organizations to create high-performance cultures. Stephanie has worked with senior leaders at GSK, BMS, AstraZeneca, HCl, Novartis, Genmab, CSL Behring, Women’s Way (nonprofit), and Food Trust (nonprofit).

 

As a leader herself, she has a proven track record of turning around business results by focusing large teams on key priorities, developing capabilities, and creating a high-performance culture. After a successful sales career, Stephanie became an organizational development consultant. One of her biggest achievements was leading the organizational development work for a global digital transformation program, successfully executing a new organizational design, change management plan, and ways of working using technology to communicate with healthcare professionals. Stephanie was also a primary contributor to GSK winning the 2016 ICF PRISM Award for the company’s Accelerating Difference for Women Program and internal coaching program.