Offered through the Asian Leadership Institute, our 6-month coaching program includes a two and a half day 1-on-1 retreat with your coach.
Who is this for?
Founders of tech startups or senior executives of multinationals or family-run businesses
Duration
6 months
Time investment
Two and half days at one of our retreat centres, followed by at least 1 coaching session per month for 6 months
What can you expect?
Retreat-Based Coaching is designed to create truly inspiring and wise leaders who operate at the highest levels. Each retreat is unique and customised to the client’s context. Clients often come to us to address a specific leadership challenge or to make the next leap in leadership development. During their time at the retreat, they gain a deeper understanding of themselves. Based on these new insights, they will develop their own unique leadership practice, allowing them to consciously shift behaviours that are no longer serving them or their organisation.
Leaders return to their organisation with a clear sense of purpose and an ability to lead from a powerful and authentic place. This mindful leadership has a measurable impact on those around them.
Retreat-Based Coaching starts at one of our beautiful retreats centres in either Chiang Mai, Thailand; Grez-Doiceau, Belgium; or Salt Spring Island, Canada. This tailored coaching style results in two clear benefits:
- Relationships: Transformational coaching requires open and candid communication in a genuinely caring relationship between the individual and the coach. The in-depth, one-on-one coaching at the start of the retreat ensures that the connection is strong and the work over the next 6 months has the biggest impact.
- Environment: The relaxed, idyllic, and isolated environment at our centres opens up the individual to new and creative ways of viewing themselves and their situation. The coach leverages this openness, helping the leader learn strategies to better manage the everyday stressors of executive life, especially for when they return to their regular environment.
The Retreat-Based Coaching program includes:
- Phase 1: Discovery
- Before the retreat we conduct 7 in-depth interviews with relevant stakeholders to identify specific leadership development areas. Each leader also completes a personal assessment to uncover interpersonal needs and understand how these needs might drive personal behaviours.
- Phase 2: Immersion
- During the retreat, each individual will receive at least 15 hours of private coaching, as well as engaging in activities to de-stress and create an openness to new ways of thinking, such as gentle yoga practices, herbal steam baths, dips in a hot tub or saltwater swimming pool, eating organic meals, and massages.
- Phase 3: Follow-Up
- At the end of the 3-day retreat each individual will have a clear set of individual leadership practices to integrate into their day-to-day life. Follow-up coaching by phone over the next 6 months will reinforce the new behaviours on an ongoing basis. Both client and coach will involve stakeholders to ensure their personal progress helps to improve their stakeholder relationships and needs.
What is included?
Case study: Initiating a new culture of feedback from the top
A second-generation family-run business in the Philippines needed to undergo an organisational transformation. They wanted to achieve a very ambitious five-year growth strategy but needed a high-performing team and future-ready leaders to achieve it; they decided to start at the top. The CEO had a great team of recently-hired champions and established veterans but wasn’t sure how to create a cohesive, high-performing team that could bring about its own potential – especially in light of uncertainties presented by the first COVID-19 outbreak.
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