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How to carry out executive training abroad

Keeping Cinderella's coach from turning into a pumpkin HR managers often assume that the purpose of coaching is to increase managers’ performance.  Research has found the the best way to carry out a productive coaching session is to do it in a place where the participants feel comfortable. So why not train in another country away from the stress of daily life? Or even on a city break?

The difference between coaches, mentors and managers

While on the training holiday it is important to know the differences between managerial roles. Executive coaching initiatives fail in part because the distinction between the role of manager, mentor and coach is not well understood. Each can help executives meet their principal objectives—life development, leadership and self-awareness—but a manager, a mentor and a coach are not the same things. You should differentiate between these on the training holiday in the exercises you carry out. Then, at a dinner for example, the roles can be played down to show flexibility.

Managers
A manager occupies a formal role within an organization and is responsible for ensuring that the primary tasks of the team/department/business unit/corporation are met. A manager can use coaching skills to informally coach a subordinate, but this “coaching” is in the service of the subordinate’s organizational task.
Mentors
A mentor occupies a close interpersonal role and helps guide a protégé’s corporate career choices. A mentor can be a formally designated role or an informally acquired one. Formal mentors help their protégé understand the organization and support their journey within it, with the assumption of a long-term career in the company.

Coach
A coach is concerned with deep personal and professional development—the emphasis is on personal. The most effective coaches are external to the company, where they are independent of organizational pressure and political influence and free to offer more-or-less objective counsel and guidance.

The engineering and clinical approaches to executive coaching:

Most corporate executive coaching initiatives take an engineering approach to human behavior using a conscious, rational and concrete approach. This method identifies areas for improvement and then applies tools, processes and procedures to increase performance. This can be applied anywhere, at home or away.

Questions to ask
- How might I benefit from executive coaching away from home?

- How might my company benefit from coaching away from home?

- How can I integrate executive coaching? Team coaching? Peer coaching?