This economy is creating organizational stress on many levels. With rapidly changing financial realities, leaders are having to make decisions more quickly, in many cases without suitable guidance. Certainly HCA’s clients have not been exempt from such stress.
Over the past year, with both profit and not for profit organizations, HCA has been collaborating with organizational leaders to help them grow and make key decisions in these uncertain times. Long-term study and planning must take a temporary back seat to decisions that are more immediate but no less critical to a firm.
For these type of time-sensitive decisions, HCA has developed its Strategic Coaching initiative, part of our leadership development portfolio, to help address a range of immediate challenges and at the same time strengthen individual leadership.
HCA uses Strategic Coaching in two ways in its client work. First, it can be an extension to its Executive Coaching services where HCA Advisors help clients apply their emerging leadership capabilities to real work challenges. Using a structured approach, clients begin to see impact from their coaching work. The HCA approach helps a client accelerate their leadership change and provides immediate value gained.
A second and increasingly common use during the current recession is to implement Strategic Coaching to help solve immediate problems. This is not a consulting assignment where HCA provides the answer. Rather, it is a methodology to help executives think through the decisions, most often operational ones, that must be made in a matter of weeks or at most a couple of months. HCA Advisors work with clients to shape individual solutions to operating challenges.
HCA employs a methodology that is based on years of marketplace experience and helps guide clients to clearly define a problem and outline possible approaches leading to solutions. This methodology includes strong diagnostics to define the issue, a collaborative, interactive relationship with the client, clear metrics to measure results and support for execution.
Is Strategic Coaching Consulting?
The answer is NO! Strategic coaching is focused on near-term decision requirements. Using the client’s talents and knowledge of the market, options can be developed, assessed and implemented. Decision making is the client’s. The result is generally more relevant, effective action and an increase in leadership confidence by the client. The HCA Advisor is not an internal advocate for a particular viewpoint. Advisors help leaders untangle their thinking so as to see the issue and options more clearly. Also, working together, HCA Advisors may spark a leader’s creativity that can result in fresh and innovative thinking.
“In today’s difficult economy, few organizations can spend considerable money or time to develop its leadership. The HCA approach, of employing experienced HCA Advisors and a structured Strategic Coaching process to define both problems and options can lead to exceptional results,” says John Tydings, who leads HCA’s Executive and Strategic Coaching practice.
For more information about HCA’s Executive and Strategic Coaching contact John at
202.256.0714 or John@HumanCapitalAdvisors.com.
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