CMI's coaching process is a collaborative effort between a middle -to upper- level executive, the organization, and CMI's qualified Masters or PhD level executive coaches. The purpose of this partnership is to facilitate learning and to achieve identified business results.

CMI's coaching programs evolve around the identification of values and aspirational goals that guide the individual's coaching process. These principles provide a compass that the coach, the executive, and other members of the executive's organization will use to set, maintain, and correct their course of action. All partners in the coaching process define the components of each individual coaching assignment and agree on expected outcomes of the process.

Executive coaching in the corporate setting uses the synergy of the organization and its members to enable them to capitalize on their capacity for learning and renewal and achieve extraordinary results. Corporate coaching is central to the overall change management process which allows executives to examine their interests and abilities and learn how to maximize their performance by utilizing these components of their marketable strengths. These shifts in the landscape of the workplace allow everyone to win, as organizations achieve competitive advantage when creativity and potential are realized..

Career coaching helps facilitate movement for individuals within the context of their organization, while focusing on moving the individual's career forward. CMI has been assisting individuals to navigate through appropriate pathways to success for almost three decades.

ROI of Executive Coaching

According to a recent Fortune magazine which reported the results of a poll of executives and upper level managers who had six to twelve months of coaching with a Masters or Doctoral level executive coach:

The executives were asked to give a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching you received. The survey demonstrated that the recipients valued the executive coaching at six times the cost that their company paid for the service. In other words, a nine-month, $18,000 executive coaching program investment for a VP, was given a rating of being worth six times that ---$108,000.

Sixty percent of the executives in the study were ages 40-49, half held positions of Vice President or higher, and a third earned more than $200,000 per year. Seventy-seven percent of the executives reported improved working relationships with their direct reports, 71% with supervisors, and 63% with peers. The executives also cited a marked increase in job satisfaction (61%) and in organizational commitment (44%).

Summary: Return on investment of Executive Coaching is 570%.

What do coaches do to bring such dramatic value to you and your organization? You and your coach first forge a partnership built around your most important goals and the organization's needs. Then your coach helps you identify your strengths and potential blind spots through interviews and selected assessment tools. Your coach helps you to leverage your strengths, enhance skills, and recognize your developmental needs in areas of strategic importance to you and your organization.

What are the benefits of coaching for an organization?

• Provides a platform for organizational evolution
• Results in improved workforce recruitment and retention
• Is applicable to all parts of the organization
• Uses a common language which everyone can relate to
• Emphasizes each individual's unique potential
• Is relevant to individuals as well as teams
• Promotes development of new skills
• Enhances communication with internal and external customers
• Complements other improvement processes
• Has sustainable benefits
• Promotes focused performance discussions
• Forms a basis for planning for career advancement
• Fosters entrepreneurial thinking
• Facilitates the building of shared vision

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