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Executive Language Coaching

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Coaching is taken for granted in the world of sport where individuals and teams have a coach to provide motivation, enhance skills and refine performance. Ultimately coaching aims to bring out the best in an individual to enable the team to work better as a whole.
Executives who desire confidence in interaction and expressing their true meaning can benefit from personal language coaching. In the case where language abilities in an individual may be good, but using the language is preventing you from meeting your professional goals, individual language coaching is the best option. Goals can be set for coaching to include improving weak areas and honing stronger areas in language use.
Executive language coaching works best when used to help individuals address specific professional language development issues or to assist when taking on a particularly challenging work role or project where using another language is necessary.
Executive language coaching services provide professional and personal language development that is particularly appropriate for those in senior positions who have little time for formal language lessons but would benefit from on-hand language coaching when necessary.
Executive language coaching is driven by the needs of the client. It is about assisting executives to achieve their and the company’s goals in the best way possible.

Benefits of Executive Language Coaching
The benefits of having an executive language coach to the individual include:
• Practice of techniques for using the language that can be used in many corporate situations
• Reduction of stress in demanding situations
• Enhancement of personal impact and performance
In addition to addressing personal issues the organisation benefits from:
• Improvement in professionalism in executive use of language
• Professional and impressive performances by senior executives
• Enhancement of company image

Working with an Executive Language Coach
Executive language coaching services work most effectively when the individual has clarity about the issues to be addressed. These might be personal language problems seen to obstruct performance, certain issues which are best addressed on a one-to-one basis rather than in a formal language training session, or knowledge, skills and behaviours that the individual will need in order to perform a future role.
Our initial diagnostic process and first session will help to ensure that this clarity can be achieved early on in the process, ensuring a tailored program from the start.

The Executive Language Coaching Process
The process starts with an initial discussion with one of the executive language coaches who will seek to understand the individual’s objectives, the level of their existing skills/knowledge/behaviours and their motivation.
The time frame for the language coaching relationship is dependent on the language issues to be addressed. There are situations when objectives can be achieved within a couple of sessions and in other cases the relationship can go on for longer.
Single sessions where executive language coaching is required on a specific skill are also available. A typical example of where this may apply includes presentation or media skills in the run up to a big meeting or a press interview. This works very well when some intensive language coaching is required and a course would not be appropriate because of time pressures or the need for confidentiality.
Executive Language Coaching can be used for;
• preparation for an upcoming presentation ,meeting or press interview,
• assistance in writing and polishing important documents and speeches,
• assistance in meetings and communications language
• improvement of executive language skills on a personal and relevant basis
Examples of coaching that can be delivered personally or on in small group seminars
• Executive language coaching (pronunciation, telephone language, sales, etc – focused on the needs of the individual clients)
• Polishing and editing written reports and speeches
• Quick brush up of spoken language for corporate situations
• Negotiations and meetings language (including role plays and case studies)
• Presentation techniques and language
For further information and a confidential consultation please contact us to find out what we can do for you. Coaching available in English and Chinese

Klein Consulting
58, Kehua North Road Yatai Guangchang suite 1715 Chengdu 610041 CHINA
T: 028-666 44 321
F: 028-666 44 394
M: 134 38 18 71 67
carrie@kces.eu