1:2 Coaching
How do we do it?
No pair is the same, so we always customize. But we begin with this proven process:
We meet with each of you independently, so that we can deeply understand your perspectives. We must understand:
- How you are perceiving yourself and your colleague
- Your desired outcomes for the organization, your partnership, and yourself
- Your honest concerns about what you are worried about and
- How we can be sure that in our process together we protect you strategically, financially, and emotionally. As with the Hippocratic Oath: We first do no harm!
We administer two instruments so that we can develop a clear picture of your views on your colleague’s and your own: preferences, values, styles, etc.
We bring you together for 2 days. We build the essentials of a great partnership: Sharing deep purpose, negotiating the best mix of roles, fully capitalizing on your respective strengths and managing your respective and collective weaknesses, and practicing the kind of dialogue that will keep you on the same productive page.
We follow this up by getting together (in person or virtually) seven times over the course of the following four months, to honestly take stock of progress and challenges and to reinforce or extend the learning to build a powerful partnership. We close out with a half-day culminating conversation. We will help not only strengthen the two of you, but support you so that your renewed clarity and communication patterns will radiate out through the organization.
Onboard by Two℠
Key Reasons To Onboard by Two℠
The best time to build a partnership is right out of the gate, in your first days, weeks or months of working together.
Our Onboarding process is customized to fit the individual client’s needs. We usually require two days for onboarding and then follow-up on a set schedule.
Re-engineering the Partnership℠
Some working pairs start when the two choose each other and have great chemistry, while others are like arranged marriages in which a board, a merger, or some other force brought them together. Regardless of how they came together working pairs can hit rough patches. Stress can come from changes in the business environment, conflicting values, or political pressures. And what was working – possibly working quite well – no longer is.
LeadingX2 helps executives who never expected they would have to “work on their relationship,” and were certainly not taught how in their MBA programs. In our re-engineering program we create a framework and employ tools that have helped key pairs to identify the conflicts (sometimes hidden) that are eroding their trust, self-confidence, and synergy.
We do four things:
Re-align
We help you re-align, with a core focus on sharing and shared vision, values and strategy. Clarity and alignment here are the sine qua non (“without which there is not,”).
Repair
We help you together to see with objective clarity the source of your tensions and breakdowns. When trust is broken it must be repaired.
Re-engineer
We re-engineer a shared understanding of your roles, strengths, and styles in leading your organization. Competition and friction are replaced by complementarity and synergy.
Dialogue
We teach and practice communication techniques that will promote understanding – and growth – instead of a hardening of irreconcilable positions.
LeadingX2
Changing the way organizations look at leadership and creating key management pairs that lead powerfully together. Do you want to become an LX2 Power Pair?
