It's not surprising that the field of leadership coaching has skyrocketed over the past decade. Coaching is a strategy that advances your organization's business priorities while investing in the development of your nextgen leaders' capabilities. Coaching provides a powerful, focused and highly tailored approach that supports leaders to accelerate the own success and that of your enterprise.

We're passionate about our coaching work because we love to see the impact we're having on shaping the next generation, and enabling them to deliver a return on your investment in them. Through coaching we're helping individuals step into their bigness as leaders (at all levels in the organization), maximize their strengths and learn how to manage their derailment risks.

NextGenLeaders includes over 20 superb coaches. Individuals bring a wealth of management consulting and coaching experience.   Common coaching assignments and themes include:

• Increasing self-awareness and self-management
• Getting ready for succession
• The first 100 days in a new role
• Building and executing a customized individual development plan
• Recalibrating impact and improving performance
• Strengthening emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills, relationships and reputation

We incorporate a range of assessment tools into our coaching work, and establish individual coaching packages to fit client needs.

"I had the opportunity to work with NextGenLeaders as part of Civic Action's DiverseCity Fellows program. It is a very humbling process to work through my leadership style and identify the areas for development and growth. Allen was an amazing guide . He gently, but firmly pushed me to think about my  behavioural triggers and be bolder about the choices I make as a leader. he also left ,e with a mantra that has helped me feel less crazy when it takes some time to latch on to a concept:  "I'll see it when I believe it."

- Robyn Connelly -  Greater Toronto Airport Authority

Facilitated Peer coaching delivers some key benefits:

1. Collaborative problem solving and idea generation. When we are immersed in our own problems, seeing the bigger picture can sometimes be difficult. Peers bring a more objective and fresh perspective to your specific challenge. This can help you unblock or reframe your problem, which can lead to improved strategic thinking, better capacity to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in challenging times, and a broadened set of creative ideas, options and possibilities
2. An accountability-based relationship. Once you have worked through a problem and have committed to an action plan, your peer coach can provide follow-up on your progress. The accountability with peers helps keep the heat on. When you know that you’ve made a commitment, and your peer is going to check-in and ask about your progress in achieving your objectives, you are motivated to follow through. Our experience and feedback from participants suggests that there is a very positive correlation between peer coaching and successful execution.
3. Support In a high trust relationship.  Although the core purpose of peer coaching is not social, strong friendships often develop. It is helpful to know you can rely on your peer to be there for you, to listen and provide moral support, and where appropriate to offer feedback and specific problem-solving advice. Leadership can be lonely; peer coaching can help reduce the sense of isolation. Peer coaching provides a safe and confidential place to be your genuine self; it can enable vulnerable, honest and open conversations. 
4. Sharing of practical experience.  Each peer brings their unique story to the coaching relationship. This includes: experiences of what has worked well and what has failed, specific technical/ professional knowledge, company lore and context, useful frameworks and tools, and perspectives about relationships with others and politics within the organization.
5. Building coaching skills.  Investing in developing people yields big dividends. Coaching is recognized as one way to make a significant difference in developing professional skills and leadership across all levels within the organization. As you get involved with peer coaching, you will strengthen your coaching skills and experience.

During COVID times, we've shifted all of our Peer Coaching work on-line.   Participants have appreciated all of the benefits listed above.  As well, there are some other advantages:

• Offers a less expensive way of providing coaching to midlevel and emerging leaders
• Creates a broader network of potential relationships and support mechanisms,
• Stimulates self-awareness about leadership strengths and areas requiring development,
• Offers opportunities for feedback from multiple sources, and
• Enables greater knowledge transfer of coaching skills back to home-base teams

We'd be delighted to speak with about setting up a peer coaching structure and process within your organization.

"NextGenLeaders is a team of smart and innovative management consultants that help you reach your goals. I am very grateful for their genuine interest in investing in emerging leaders.
- Jessie Ma, Hydro One