Coaching and Consulting on Business & Corporate Strategy

🎓 Course Title: Coaching and Consulting on Business & Corporate Strategy

Headline: Become a Strategy Thinking Partner (specialized Business / Executive Coach) or a Business Strategist

Introduction

Hello there! Welcome to the course: Coaching and Consulting on Business & Corporate Strategy. Let's demystify Strategy and Management coaching & consulting!

You've likely come across numerous courses that touch upon the importance of coaching, the benefits it offers, and the general approaches and processes. These are essential, especially in life coaching, where the focus is on helping clients define their own goals, alternatives, and paths forward.

However, this course goes beyond the basics. I'm here to guide you towards becoming a real Business Strategist or a Strategy Thinking Partner – someone who can dive deep into strategy-related content and processes. As a Business Coach, you'll need to demonstrate expertize and first-hand experience in managing organizations and sometimes, provide advice that is grounded in real-world application.

As the renowned coach Ajit Nawalka once said: “People will not hire you for the time they spend talking to you. They will hire you because of the insights they will get after working with you...because of the results they will see translating into their everyday life, the shifts in mindset and behavior they will experience.” Coaches are sought after for those occasional insights that restructure thinking and change client behavior. Our mission is to help strategists synthesize soft information into new perspectives.

Course Structure

To achieve this, we have structured the course around four comprehensive Sections:

1. How do you compete?

   • We'll explore the landscape of strategy conversations by combining theory with business philosophy and providing tools and frameworks that consultants use daily. This will help you structure your sessions and ask relevant questions tailored to the strategy context and content.

2. What does your strategy creation process look like?

   • Here, we focus on the habits of a strategist and how they approach their strategy creation process. You'll be exposed to 10 different strategy approaches, from Classic to Entrepreneurial, Learning, and even Pirate strategies, among others. The goal is to explore various possibilities for strategy creators.

3. How you are going to coach them?

   • We'll cover the basics of coaching, including the logic behind impactful coaching questions, common coaching frameworks (like GROW, STEPPA, OSKAR), and how to address challenging coaching issues. Additionally, we'll provide examples of structured coaching questions within a "Strategy Stress-Test" framework developed by a Harvard Business School Professor.

4. Running Discovery Conversations (or Diagnosing)

   • In this final Section, you'll find valuable questions and distinctions to aid in your discovery conversations or diagnosing talks, all related to different factors affecting strategy. These tools will be instrumental in designing your coaching sessions, exploring specific sub-topics in more detail, and then integrating back into the main coaching narrative.

Key Learning Elements

Throughout the course, you'll discover:

• A mix of coaching rules, frameworks, and hints to enhance your coaching skills.
• Tools and frameworks specifically tailored to strategy topics, such as the business model canvas, generic strategies, BCG matrix, and more.
• How to apply these elements within a coaching conversation for a comprehensive approach.

Additional Resources

To complement your learning experience, you'll have access to a wealth of supplementary materials in the Attachments or Resources Sections. These will enhance your understanding and provide practical support as you navigate through the course.

Embark on this journey to become a specialized Business / Executive Coach or a Business Strategist with valuable insights into coaching and consulting within the realm of business and corporate strategy. Enjoy the learning process, and I look forward to seeing you in the course! 🌟