Executive Coaching

GRS has extensive experience in executive coaching with high value leaders. The firm has worked with over 200 senior executives to help them develop the right personal competencies and behaviors necessary for the next stage in their career. Our coaches are experienced leaders, able to understand the issues executives face in the workplace, and provide useful insight on demand. They are also outcome oriented, keeping the coaching process focused on achieving timely results.

GRS believes successful executive coaching begins with a clear destination. To identify this, the coach and participant work as a team to develop three objectives to be derived from the coaching. Then, they will work together to identify the steps necessary to achieve these objectives, set up milestones and build a schedule for future discussions. The coaching meetings are disciplined and designed to be one-on-one, where the coach serves as a confidential ‘sounding board’ with forthright advice and counsel.

Building Positive Executive Behaviors

GRS is often asked to work with senior leaders who are considered extremely high value to the organization because of their technical or sales competency – but lack the emotional intelligence or managerial skills to take their career to the next step. To build a data set in these cases, GRS will conduct confidential interviews or administer a limited 360-degree feedback assessment to isolate strengths and development areas. Often this either resonates with the leader or presents surprises that go against self-perception. The coach works with the participant to understand how this perception is created and identify steps and activities to overcome it.

Overcoming Critical Workplace Obstacles

In our experience coaching senior leaders, we find that executives are often eager to use the coaching sessions to work through “front burner” issues in their workplace. This is why GRS uses experienced managers and leaders as coaches – it provides a realistic framework from which the coach can offer usable advice. Our experience is that individuals who lack this depth of knowledge, and may even have trained as coaches, tend to provide advice that is abstract from the leader’s reality. GRS believes coaching sessions should remain on point – achieve the objectives outlined at the outset, and use the everyday issues the participant brings up as learning opportunities to reinforce the core objectives. This discipline helps our clients succeed faster.

For more on our Executive Coaching services, please contact GRS Partner John Theriault at jtheriault@grsco.com.

GRS Executive Coaching services include: