Coach-Coachee-Manager Alignment Meeting (CCM)

An overview of the AceUp Coach-Coachee-Manager Alignment Meeting process

The Coach-Coachee-Manager Alignment Meeting is available to coachees once per quarter during their engagement. The 3 purposes of the Coach-Coachee-Manager Alignment Meeting are:

1) To make sure that coachee, manager, and coach can define and align on a goal(s) and/or focus area related to the client company’s overarching goal for the engagement. This should be a goal that the coachee feels motivated to achieve with their manager’s agreed support with the aim of helping the client company to grow.

2) For the coachee to come up with or start thinking of an action plan to achieve that goal with their coach’s support that they can discuss with their manager during and after the alignment meeting

3) For the manager to support the coachee’s coaching and leadership development.

How will this work? 

  • Although these meetings will take place during one of the coachee’s usual coaching sessions, they are not coaching sessions, but rather alignment meetings. This meeting will be included/counted as a regularly scheduled coaching session.
  • The coachee drives the process. It is up to them to coordinate with their manager and coach in order to schedule the meeting through the AceUp platform. They also define the agenda, prepare the action plan to be discussed, and provide a zoom link to the meeting (either through the AceUp platform or the client company's calendar). The coachee also speaks with their coach before the meeting to let them know whether they want them there to observe in silence, facilitate, or ask clarifying questions to increase alignment. 
  • Subsequent alignment meetings can happen once per quarter or less often, depending on needs and preferences. We have seen that more consistent alignment meetings can contribute measurably to both a coachee’s progress and to the alignment between their goals and their company’s. 
  • During this and future quarterly alignment meetings, the coachee will not be asked to discuss anything from their coaching sessions.  All past and future coaching sessions will remain completely confidential and coachees are not asked to shift the focus of current work with their coach – it is only an opportunity for the coachee to further develop with the support of their manager in a special session.   
  • The coach will not be asked or expected to share any information or insights about a coachee’s coaching sessions with the manager before, during, or after this session. The client company understands that would violate the ethics of coaching and AceUp's confidentiality agreement with our coachees.