1. How Women Can Make Themselves Visible
for Board Appointments
Joy Pitts, Managing Director & Coach, Peoplemax
Johannesburg
May 2013
Through Leadership Coaching

2. 6 Gold Nuggets
Self Awareness
Develop Strengths
Develop Networks
Adopt a Learning Approach
Communication & Interpersonal Skills
Be Authentic

3. Why Coaching?
• Safe confidential place
• Obective 3rd Party – honest feedback
• Expert in: Human Behaviour
– Leadership
– Organisations
– Influencing
• Sounding Board for ideas
• Helping you work through issues
• Hold you accountable – Goals and actions
• Challenge and stretch you
• Clarify your vision/purpose
• Help you to get there FASTER and more EFFECTIVELY!

4. The Path to Sustainable Change
ACCEPTANCE
RESPONSIBILITY
ACTION
UNDERSTANDING
AWARENESS

5. Insights
(New Theories)
Experimentation
(Try New Things)Experience
Reflection
(What does it mean
for me?)
Adult Learning
Cycle
The Coaching Process
Adapted from the work of David Kolb

6. Benefits of Coaching
• Coaching should be uniquely tailored to meet the individual
and organisational leadership needs
• Our coaching experience shows that leadership can be
enhanced and accelerated
• The need for great leadership is paramount across all
organisations
• Enhanced leadership at the top is vital for leading change
throughout organisations

7. Benefits of Coaching
Goal Attainment
Increased Resilience
Reduced Depression,
Anxiety & Stress
Workplace Well-being
* A Grant, L Curtayne, & G Burton The Journal of Positive
Psychology 2009, University Of Sydney

8. Executive Coaching is Good for Business
In 2001 MetrixGlobal surveyed 100 executives of Fortune 1000 companies who had received executive
coaching for a period between six months and one year. The survey questioned the executives about a wide
range of different metrics concerning the ROI of executive coaching.
Studies show up to 700% ROI from Executive Coaching
“The executives reported that their companies benefited from
improvement in customer service, development of potential
successors, improved individual performance, and better bottom line
results. The executives also reported individual benefits, citing
improvements in their working relationships with direct reports,
immediate supervisors, peers, and clients. They also reported
improvements in job satisfaction and teamwork.”

9. For things to
Change
first
I Must Change