Challenges and Strategies In any coaching engagement, coaches must anticipate potential challenges that could derail a client’s progress.

2 Parts – Part 1 Application: Application: Challenges and Strategies In any coaching engagement, coaches must anticipate potential challenges that could derail a client’s progress. Being aware of potential coaching challenges and being prepared to address those challenges makes for a smooth coaching process with optimum outcomes. While you might think this is a daunting task at first, there are specific “signs” that often mean trouble, some of which you explored in Week 2, “The Leaders” and Week 3, “The Organizations.” For instance, you may remember that specific leader characteristics and organizational factors and conditions can stand in the way of the effectiveness of coaching for leadership development. To prepare to address these challenges and others, you must be aware of coaching strategies that are proven effective. You also must determine which of these strategies work best with specific leaders and in specific organizations. Keep all of this in mind as you complete the following assignment in which you will identify and address possible challenges that might arise in a coaching engagement using specific coaching strategies. To prepare for this assignment: • Review the book excerpt, “Coaching Executives: Individual Leader Development.” Pay particular attention to the coaching functions in each stage of the “six-step executive coaching process.” Consider the challenges that may arise in each stage and how you might address them. • Review the online chapter, “Coaching Executives.” Think about the systemic causes of client problems and consider how these causes might be challenging for a coach to address. Consider the challenges related to coaching Henry in the chapter’s case study and how the case study coach addressed these challenges. • Review the online chapter, “An Iterative Approach to Executive Coaching.” Focus on the common problems exhibited in leaders. Think about the challenges that might occur when coaches address these problems and what strategies they might use. • Review the online chapter, “Behind the Mask: Coaching through Deep Interpersonal Communication.” Consider challenges related to working with leaders as opposed to other employees in an organization. Think about how “deep interpersonal communication” might be used to address these challenges. • Review your Application Assignments from Week 2 and Week 3, focusing on leader characteristics and organizational factors and/or conditions that might detract from coaching for leadership development. Consider the challenges you might face because of these characteristics, factors, and conditions, and how you might address them. • Reflect on the approaches, models, and frameworks from Week 4 and the specific coaching strategies assumed in each. • Review your Application Assignment from Week 5, focusing on the client’s assessment data and the leadership competencies requiring further development. • With the assessment data and case study in mind, identify at least three challenges you might encounter as a coach working with this client. • Select at least three specific coaching strategies that you would use to address the three challenges you identified. Note: At least one strategy must be from the approach, model, or framework you selected for the Week 4 Discussion thread. ***** The assignment: (2 pages) Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. All resources must be cited in text, and included in an APA formatted reference section following APA style. Application Assignment 1. Select client from prior and this weeks assignment – Lila 2. Describe three (3) challenges – do not repeat what you may have discussed before 3. For each of the three (3) Challenges, describe the strategy, in detail, of how you would address the challenge. One of the strategies should be from the week 4 readings (Attached Below) 4. Include at least three (3) academic citations, properly formatted in text and in the reference section. Submit your assignment by Day 3. ***** Part 2 Effective Coaching Strategies For the Application Assignment this week, you identified potential challenges related to working with a specific leader, and you selected specific coaching strategies that would best address these challenges. In this week’s Discussion, you will share what you have learned by choosing two challenges and two coaching strategies from your Application Assignment to discuss with your classmates. You will justify your selection of coaching strategies and explain how and why these strategies would be effective. In turn, by reading and responding to your classmates’ postings, you will broaden your knowledge of coaching strategies by exploring the effectiveness of strategies you might not have considered. To prepare for this Discussion: • Review your Application Assignment from this week. • Select two challenges to share with your classmates. Then identify at least two coaching strategies you would use to address each challenge. • Reflect on why you chose the coaching strategies and how and why you think these strategies would be effective. ***** Discussion assignment With these thoughts in mind write a 1 page paper that: 1. Chose the same client as you did for the application assignment this week ** Lila is the client 2. Identify two (2) challenges you can see in working with the chosen client 3. Describe two strategies (note these can be derived from the application assignment but DO NOT copy and paste from the application assignment). 4. Of the two, one should be from the week 4 readings. 5. Include at least three (3) academic citations, properly formatted in text and in the reference section. Note: Identify the case study client you will be discussing in the first line of your post, as you will respond to a colleague who discussed a client you did not. Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. *** Resources: Case Studies *** References: Diedrich, R. C. (2007). An iterative approach to executive coaching. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 143-148). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-014 Hollenbeck, G. P. (2002). Coaching executives: Individual leader development. In R. Silzer (Ed.), The 21st century executive: Innovative practices for building leadership at the top. (pp. 137-167). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc. Copyright 2002 by Jossey-Bass, Inc. Reproduced with permission of Jossey-Bass, Inc. in the format electronic usage via the Copyright Clearance Center. Tobias, L. L. (2007). Coaching executives. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 133-141). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-013 Quick, J. C., & Macik-Frey, M. (2007). Behind the mask: Coaching through deep interpersonal communication. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 311-317). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-029 *** Week 4 Readings: Ducharme, M. J. (2007). The cognitive-behavioral approach to executive coaching. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 157-165). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-016 Sherin, J., & Caiger, L. (2007). Rational-emotive behavior therapy: A behavioral change model for executive coaching?. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 167-173). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-017 Cocivera, T., & Cronshaw, S. (2007). Action frame theory as a practical framework for the executive coaching process. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 175-183). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-018 Laske, O. E. (2007). An integrated model of developmental coaching. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 217-235). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-021 Peterson, D. B. (2007). Executive coaching at work: The art of one-on-one change. In R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich, R. R. Kilburg, R. C. Diedrich (Eds.) , The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change (pp. 123-131). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11570-012