Leadership & Executive Development Flashcards
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A newly appointed executive inherits a high-performing team from a beloved predecessor. What early leadership move should a coach recommend?
Answer: Listening broadly to understand the culture before making significant changes
New leaders build credibility by first learning the culture and earning trust before initiating change.
Which distinction correctly separates executive coaching from mentoring?
Answer: Coaching facilitates the client's own discovery, while mentoring shares the mentor's experience and advice
Coaching is a facilitative, question-driven process, whereas mentoring is guidance based on the mentor's own experience.
An executive client wants to strengthen their strategic influence with the board. Which capability should coaching prioritize?
Answer: Framing recommendations around enterprise risk, value, and stakeholder priorities
Boards respond to enterprise-level framing of value and risk, so influence grows from strategic communication rather than operational detail.
During a coaching session, an executive reveals plans that may violate securities regulations. What is the coach's appropriate response?
Answer: Clarify the limits of confidentiality and encourage the client to seek legal counsel
Coaches must know confidentiality limits, avoid practicing outside their competence, and direct legal matters to qualified professionals.
A leadership assessment shows an executive scores low on adaptability. Which development activity best targets this gap?
Answer: Taking on assignments in unfamiliar contexts with structured reflection afterward
Adaptability grows through deliberate exposure to unfamiliar challenges combined with reflection that converts experience into learning.
An executive tells their coach, 'I know what I should do, but I keep not doing it.' Which coaching concept most directly explains this gap?
Answer: Competing commitments creating immunity to change
Kegan and Lahey's immunity-to-change model shows hidden competing commitments block changes people consciously want to make.
Which behavior indicates an executive has developed a growth mindset through coaching?
Answer: Treating setbacks as information for learning rather than proof of fixed limitations
A growth mindset, per Carol Dweck, reframes setbacks and effort as pathways to development rather than evidence of fixed ability.