This program focuses on executive coaching and individual personality theory and assessment and its application to coaching.
The practice of coaching requires the ability to understand the whole person and the personality dynamics of each client; yet training in coaching does not generally provide in-depth education in assessing and working with different personality types.
In this intensive program, we will discuss the coaching presence needed to coach executives. We will explore the different temperaments, characteristics and personalities of individual executives. In exploring the hierarchy of defenses one uses as an executive, we will discuss the best approach a coach can use to support their client.
The participants will be introduced to an assessment tool to better understand and manage themselves during the coaching engagement. This tool can also be used with your clients.
This program will focus on understanding and working with the characteristics and manifestations of narcissism, perfectionism and control, anger and conflict management, burnout and issues of self-esteem.
Participants will explore how to coach each differently and how to know when a referral to another practitioner is needed. Emphasis is on the cases from participants’ practices in relation to personality dynamics and theory. Therefore, pre-work is needed to prepare for this workshop
Benefits
As a participant in this program you will learn:
- Positive and negative aspects of the individual personality types and how they impact organizations
- Individual relationship styles, conflict management styles, and how to determine the most effective way to work with these different styles
- Strengths of clients served and ways to build on them
- Manifestations of personality types in personal and family life.
- Roles of race, gender and age as they relate to executive personality dynamics.
- Your motivations, hidden drivers, and untapped sources of energy as a coach by completing the Individual Directions Inventory (IDI) from Management Research Group (MRG).
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This program is designed for coaches who coach leaders and executives or are planning to do so.
This program is one of the requirements for the GISC Advanced Coaching Certification .
Continuing Education
This program will offer 17 ICF core competency CCE hours and 3 resource development hours.
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“I really loved the program and I got what I came for: enhance knowledge of how to manage self and client in a coaching context and with several personality styles and dynamics at play. I am going to make a plan to be sure I apply what I learned going forward."
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“Executives who lead productive organizations are often complex people. They benefit from coaches and consultants who understand them, understand their motivations and difficulties, and who grasp the impact of the environment they walk in. GISC prepares one to enter any system and be helpful. Truly, undeniably helpful.”
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