The Conference Board

Preparing for the Academy

• You receive a comprehensive selection of relevant articles and reports, providing a solid research base for the Academy

• You also receive a self-assessment questionnaire to help you refining your objectives for the Academy, and for us to adapt the content of the academy to your needs

First Webcast- Programme Orientation

• Setting the frame in which the Academy will be organized

• Understanding why and how Coaching and Mentoring have become 'tools for our times'

• Understanding the need for a coaching and mentoring strategy

Preparation for First Face-to-Face Meeting

• You receive personal support to prepare for the first face-to-face meeting

First Face-to-Face Meeting – Day 1

Alignment of our knowledge and skills

• Getting to know each other, sharing your companies' strategies and your needs from the programme

• Understanding coaching and mentoring and comparing them with other development strategies

• You have the opportunity to learn and practice the essential coaching and mentoring skills for executives

• Towards the development of your Coaching and Mentoring strategy: Learn how to get the attention and engagement of your key stakeholders

• Networking dinner

First Face-to-Face Meeting – Day 2

Discovering options, defining your vision and planning for strategy development

• Presentations from faculty members and discussion on the approaches to coaching and mentoring

• Understand various approaches, what worked and what not. Discussions on pitfalls to avoid

• Highlight the pros and cons of integrating coaching or mentoring into your company culture

• Understanding the potential applications of coaching and mentoring

• Building your vision for coaching and mentoring in your own organisation

• Definition of your action plans for collecting and analysing the additional information needed to determine your own strategy

Action Learning from Face-to-Face Meeting

• You progress through the action plan from meeting 1 with relevant stakeholders in your organization

  Support provided by faculty members

Second Webcast – Preparing for strategy

• Discussing progress on action plans, difficulties encountered and ensuring the necessary information is available to be able to develop a strategy in the next face-to-face meeting

Second Face-to-Face Meeting – Day 1

Moving from vision to strategy

• Sharing and tuning the visions under development for your own organisation

• Getting from current situation to your future vision: critical success factors and key strategies

• Presentations from faculty members and discussion on the implementation of their coaching and mentoring strategies, difficulties encountered, solutions found and benefits accrued

• Networking dinner

Second Face-to-Face Meeting – Day 2

Developing an implementable strategy

• Integrating with your own organisation's business strategy

• Discussing the potential barriers to successful implementation of the coaching and mentoring strategy, and defining mitigation approaches to ensure success

• Understanding the benefits of using of role models, champions and pilots; reviewing the supporting systems to be implemented to ensure success

• Developing and implementing the strategic plan that works for your own organization; planning for sustainability in your organization

• Keeping the networking going and co-coaching opportunities

Action learning from Face-to-Second Meeting

• You finalise the strategic plan you defined during meeting 2 and you get buy in from key stakeholders in your organization

  Support provided by faculty members

Webcast 3 – Putting into action

• Review of your progress towards implementation of your coaching and mentoring strategy, discussion of difficulties and how to get round them

  Planning for the future