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Executive Strategic Coaching (ESC)

What is Executive Coaching?
​"It typically refers to a brief, formal relationship between a client seeking to enhance their executive abilities and a consultant who “coaches” the client to increase those skills and abilities. Executive coaching is usually understood to involve a non-clinical client-coach relationship. It includes interventions that promote learning and cognitive and behavioral change for increasing self-awareness and improving job and interpersonal performance. Executive coaching can address both personal and professional development with a focus on the acquisition of new skills." (June 2018)
 - Psychological Health Center of Excellence (PHCoE), one of the Centers of Excellence within the Research and Engineering Directorate of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) ​
Does Executive Coaching Work?
"[T]he current empirical data can demonstrate only that coaching is effective at improving the coachee’s self-perception about improvements to themselves and the workplace." (June 2018)
 - Psychological Health Center of Excellence (PHCoE), one of the Centers of Excellence within the Research and Engineering Directorate of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) ​​
What is Evidence-Based Executive Coaching?
"[A] combination of professional wisdom (individual experience and group experience consensus) and empirical evidence (coaching-specific research and coaching-relevant research)" (5/14/2021)
​-  Forbes, Evidence-Based Coaching: A Key To Lasting Personal Transformation
Why Don't Your Executive Coaches, or Strategists, "Tell" Clients What to Do?
"The popularity of executive coaching owes much to the modern craze for easy answers. [...] To achieve fast results, many popular executive coaches model their interventions after those used by sports coaches, employing techniques that reject out of hand any introspective process that can take time and cause “paralysis by analysis.” The idea that an executive coach can help employees improve performance quickly is a great selling point to CEOs, who put the bottom line first. Yet that approach tends to gloss over any unconscious conflict the employee might have. This can have disastrous consequences for the company in the long term and can exacerbate the psychological damage to the person targeted for help." (June 2002)
- Harvard Business Review, The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching
WHAT DOES YOUR EXECUTIVE COACH, or STRATEGIST, DO?
Our Executive Coaching Strategist collaborates with you to craft the pathway to your goal destination. You determine your goals. Your Strategist works with you to determine how to attain the goals and implementation of real-world Action Plans.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
At Inclusion Therapies LLC, our Executive Strategic Coaching (ESC) is an evidence-based process with defined outcomes.

​There is a beginning (Intake Coaching Assessment & Coaching Deployment Plan, if applicable), a middle (coaching sessions) and a conclusion (discharge upon goal attainment and maintenance career check-up to prevent goal regression).

Clients are in control of the process at all times and collaborate with their coach strategists to ensure their optimal outcomes. 
Why Would SOMEONE NOT BE APPROVED FOR COACHING SESSIONS?
In the Intake session, the Premier Level Coach will assess client's business/ career goals and determine if there is a pragmatic path to collaborate on towards achievement of client's stated goals.

Client accepts that the intake is to determine approval for continuing services (based on factors including goal definition, timeframes, skills, etc.). A client may not be approved for continuing services to the eight (8) weekly session Foundation Program if they are not prepared for coaching to commence. Unpreparedness for coaching may include, but is not limited to:

- A client who wants an Executive Strategic Coach to "figure out" their goals; or,

- A client who is not receptive to any feedback from an Executive Strategic Coach as they believe they "know all the answers" and/or "has tried it all"; or,

- A client who is experiencing what appear to be mental health challenges that necessitate clinical treatment; or,

- A client who has unrealistic timeframes; or,

- A client who believes they "don't know" what they want; or,

- A client who identifies a skill deficiency and expresses no intention to attain the requisite skills; or,

- A client seeking a "shortcut" or "hack" to attain outcomes in an unrealistic, unethical, dishonest or ill-advised manner; or,

- A client who asserts that they know how to get what they want but that goal attainment "is based on who you know."