Executive Coaching - Impact and Presence

High Potential Executive in a Global Investment Bank

Need to impact more strongly on senior management

Aims

• Need to impact more strongly on senior management
• Need to understand and deal with ambiguity
• Improve management of multiple projects and large team
• Develop strategic thinking

Action

• Used in house 360 feedback questionnaire, MBTI and feedback interviews with sponsor to assess current reality
• Continual review and setting action plans to progress behaviour changes
• Detailed evaluation and tracking, including regular sponsor meetings
• Continual assessment of changes in impact on senior management

Outcome

• Change to more authoritative leadership style
• Promoted twice, to more senior global roles where new leadership styles could be fully utilised

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