Topic: Leadership Coaching as a Strategy for Performance Excellence

Leadership coaching:  seems to be the new buzzword, but what is it?  It is an approach to working with leaders to help them maximize their abilities and it also refers to a leadership style when working with teams.  Both are becoming more and more common in organizations and are extremely useful to enhance the pursuit of performance excellence in an organization at any level: teams, departments, quality in daily work life, process improvement.  What difference can leadership coaching make in the pursuit of performance excellence?  If we think of coaching as empowering, discovery, awareness, tapping personal and professional potential, helping people and teams get from where they are to where they want to be – it can put performance excellence in whole different light – or at least how we get to performance excellence.

Kurt Schoch, EdD is an organizational development and learning professional with over 35 years’ experience in corporate training, organizational development, and higher education. He currently is owner, coach, and consultant for Performance Improvement Consulting, a coaching and consulting business based in Carmel, Indiana where he works with clients in a variety of industries.  Kurt is a certified professional coach, a certified Everything DiSC Trainer®, an Accredited Facilitator for The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ and holds an EdD in adult education from Indiana University. Kurt is also the current board chair of The Partnership for Excellence.