Leadership Development Coaching with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

DESCRIPTION

What is coaching and how is it related to leadership development? To organization development?  What are critical, essential elements in coaching “the good” – high potential leaders; “the bad” – those in the process of derailing; and “the ugly” – those with issues who may require clinical assistance?  What roles and responsibilities do organizational sponsors and other stakeholders have in ensuring coaching “success”? And how can we measure “success” in leadership development coaching?

Our May program, “Leadership Development Coaching with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” will be presented by Jim Clarkson, Principal Executive Coach of Clear Focus Solutions.  Using a model of individual behavior change, Jim will lead the group in a discussion exploring essential components in three types of coaching engagements and the roles and responsibilities organizational sponsors have before, during and after coaching engagements to ensure “success”.

He will then explore highlights of research on current “best practices” in leadership development and coaching to make the case for the essential components of effective coaching engagements.  Finally, Jim will share an interactive case study incorporating lessons learned in providing executive leadership development coaching.

PROGRAM CONTRIBUTOR

Jim Clarkson, M.A., is the Principal of Clear Focus Solutions, LLC, a talent development consulting firm in St. Louis.  

He has over 30 years of experience in the field of leadership training and development, organization development, and executive coaching having served both as an internal and as an external OD consultant.  His focus is on identifying and applying evidenced-based approaches to leadership development coaching.

In addition to providing leadership development coaching services to organizations, he serves as an instructor for Strategic Leadership, Organization Change Management, and Human Resources Certification courses with the University of Missouri Business Continuing Education.  He previously served on the faculty of the International Coach Academy, training professional coaches and served as the director and executive career coach for the chapter of ExecuNet, a national network of c-level executives and senior-level managers. 

Jim earned an M.A. in Human Resources Development and a B.A. with major emphasis in Counseling, both from the University of Illinois at Springfield.  He is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and is a member of the International Coach Federation.  His professional coach training has included The Executive Coaching Program, the Business Coaching Program of B-Coach Systems, certification as a leadership development coach through Right Management Consultants and certification as a business coach and peer coaching board facilitator through The Alternative Board.

Jim has been a member of the STL-ODN since the early 90s when it was formed as a Special Interest Group of the St. Louis ASTD chapter. He helped host early monthly meetings and began the first ODN network communications process using what is now Yahoo Groups. Later, he designed and implemented the first website and served as the communications chair.

In his free time, Jim has become passionate about riding his recumbent trike on area trails, where this past October he rode from St. Louis to Columbia, Missouri to visit his son who lives there.  He plans to ride the entire 237 miles of the Katy Trail this year. 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 7th at 5:00 p.m.