This document provides a simple overview of the Coach-Coachee-Manager (CCM) Alignment Meetings, designed to help you effectively support your report's development through coaching.
What is a CCM Alignment Meeting?
A CCM Alignment Meeting is a crucial meeting involving you, your report, and their coach. It is a focused discussion to ensure that your report's personal growth goals align with the company's strategic objectives and goals. This is an alignment meeting, not a coaching session, and no confidential details from the report's individual sessions will be shared.
The primary purpose is to:
- Fostering Alignment: Ensuring that your report's development goals are directly related to and support your company's overarching goals.
- Supporting Growth: Understanding how you can best support your report's leadership development journey.
- Action Plan Development: Helping your report define and align on an action plan for their coaching goals.
- Accountability Partner: Serving as an accountability partner for your report, especially as they progress and conclude their coaching program.
When to Expect CCM Meetings
Your report will have CCM Alignment Meetings twice during a 6-month program.
- Initial Meeting: In Month 2, after your report has established a relationship with the coach and ideally after, but not contingent upon having had their 360 feedback debrief, to refine the initial goals and action plans for coaching.
- Program Wrap-up: At the end of the coaching engagement to ensure continued development beyond the program.
Scheduling a CCM Meeting is your report’s responsibility:
- Your report will discuss their desire for a CCM with you and scheduling availability.
- You will receive an invitation from your report for the scheduled meeting. The meeting will be held virtually, using the coach's video link. Each meeting is approximately 60 minutes long.
What to Discuss in the Meeting
The meeting will focus on the report's professional growth goals and how they align with business objectives. Your role is to listen and ensure alignment. Your involvement in these meetings is vital for maximizing the impact of the coaching program and ensuring your report's development contributes directly to business success.
Some things to consider in preparation for this meeting:
- What are the current strengths, priorities, projects, or skills the report could work on in alignment with the objectives and goals for the business?
- Which skills, gaps, or areas for improvement are you most interested in the report developing?
- Are there items from the report’s 360 that you would like to discuss with them?
- How does this align to the business?
- In what ways do you feel that you could support?
- Are there ways for you to put this person in a position to lean into their desired growth areas?
- What kind of support do you need from me as your manager to achieve this goal?
- What professional growth goal are you most interested in this report pursuing in alignment with the goals for the business and opportunities to improve your leadership skills?
- What is a new goal or habit you have set in coaching that I can help support you in?
- What is something you have identified in coaching that you are still struggling with, that you would like my insight or input on?
- What is something you would like me to do differently as a result of your coaching work?
We do not suggest using this Meeting for the following purposes:
- Mediating any conflicts between you, your report, or other employees
- Performance improvement plan conversations
- Discussing significant company or organizational changes and related concerns