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Awareness through
assessment and coaching
The Coles Executive MBA
provides students with nine tools of personal
assessment to gain awareness of their strengths
and vulnerabilities. Unlike other programs,
Coles takes personal development a step further
by providing students not only with the feedback
from these tools, but with frameworks and
devoted executive coaches that help students use
this information to create a professional and
personal plan to thrive with. Executive coaching
and personal assessments typically cost
thousands of dollars. At Coles, tests and
coaching are included in tuition.
The a-ha in the Coles
Executive MBA program are the personal tools.
I came to the program for the world-class MBA
curriculum
but I am experiencing so much more.
Cornelio DeLasAlas,
Outside Plant Manager,
BellSouth Telecommunications, Class of 2006
Executive Coaching
Coles is one of two
Executive MBA programs globally that offers
Program Long Executive Coaching.
Within the last decade the
field of Executive Coaching has emerged as a
proven method for achieving personal and
professional development. Coaching is defined as
a helping relationship where one person works
with others (an individual or team) to discover,
access, and leverage their abilities to enhance
personal and professional performance.
The Executive Coaching
dimension of the Coles Executive MBA consists of
a one on one collaborative relationship between
a student and an executive volunteer of the
student’s choice. Most students find a coach
with little difficulty, however support in
finding a coach is available through Coles
strong alumni network.
Click here to read an
article about the importance of executive
coaching and its career impact.
Destiny is not a
matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a
thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
The relationship continues
throughout the duration of the program and Coles
provides the student and the coach with training
to create productive relationships. Coaches
glean satisfaction by giving back to their
community, increasing their own professional
skills and contributing to the growth and
milestones of another person.
Key Student
Benefits:
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Support from
experienced executive that has "been there
and done that"
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Networking that leads
to opportunity and self-discovery
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Coaching on
implementing a personal and professional
development plan
Personal Inventories
The best leaders don’t
just understand business, they understand
themselves and how they interact with others.
Through a series of personal inventories to
include a personality inventory, a leadership
practices inventory, competing values skills
survey, the Hermann Brain Dominance Inventory
and journaling students discover their innate
gifts and talents and how to use their abilities
to become a thriving team member, leader and
executive.
At first I was
skeptical of the personal inventories and
journaling,
but I soon came to realize that reflection
allows me to think in
new ways while advancing my personal and
professional goals.
Ramesh Ramchandran, Senior
Architect, Class of 2006, Cingular Wireless
Key Student
Benefits:
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Self awareness and
growth leads to master management
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Discover motivational
leadership that gets people on the same page
and moving in the same direction
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Explore confident
decision making and personal patterns of
results through self-reflection and
journaling
Personal Development Plan
At the onset of the
program, Coles asks each student to set at least
one goal around a personal mission statement.
This mission statement becomes the basis for
your personal development plan. Personal and
professional development planning at Coles is a
life changing experience.
Key Student
Benefits:
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Know where you are
going and how to get there
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Growth in personal
relationships
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Understand your
strengths and protect against your
vulnerabilities
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Remove roadblocks to
professionally development
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