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Virtual Coaching
Support your leaders’ development by providing access to high-quality, proven virtual leadership coaching services.
Our Virtual Coaching Services
Virtual leadership coaching for individual executives provides essential support through challenges and sustains results from development investments.
Virtual coaching that’s integrated into leadership training programs enables your organization to reinforce and reaffirm new skills and behaviors.
Virtual leadership coaches can partner with entire teams, enabling members to go beyond their current abilities and collaborate better together.
Virtual Coaching That Delivers
Benefits of Leadership Coaching Online
- It’s available anytime. Online coaching offers maximum flexibility, giving leaders access to ongoing support and development, even outside of traditional business hours.
- It’s accessible anywhere. Virtual coaches aren’t limited by geographic limitations, so matches are based on fit, rather than proximity.
- It reduces environmental impacts. Online leadership coaching eliminates the travel associated with traditional in-person coaching.
- It’s virtual, not impersonal. An individualized online coaching experience gets results, yet maintains a human touch and personalized feel.
- It’s scalable. Delivered online, coaching can reach provide large populations of leaders across different geographic areas with consistent, quality development support.
Proven Coaching Experience & Expertise
Steeped in our decades of research insights on coaching and mentoring, our global network of virtual leadership coaches have been providing high-impact online coaching for decades. They’ve delivered more than 20,000 hours of online coaching per year to leaders at global Fortune 1000 companies.
Our world-class coaches are also highly trained, with advanced professional degrees and coaching certifications, and many are fluent in multiple languages. All are experienced at interpreting 360 results and delivering assessment feedback as part of holistic leader development. Virtual coaching services are included for leaders as key part of the participant experience in all our core virtual leadership training programs.
Why Choose Us as Your Virtual Coaching Provider?
At CCL, we’ve shaped the leadership development industry for nearly 6 decades through pioneering research and evidence-based innovation. We’re proud of our extensive expertise and experience serving organizations seeking virtual coaching for leaders.
As trusted architects of transformation, we partner with clients — from global Fortune 500 companies to regional nonprofits — to offer our online coaching services and expertise. When working with us, your organization can expect:
- Evidence-based change leadership training solutions, based on over 50 years of research and decades of experience in leader development and change management training
- Collaboration with best-in-class leadership experts who have earned many awards and accolades for our partnerships with clients
- Customized white-glove services tailored to your organization’s needs and drawing insights from one of the largest leadership research databases in the world
- Transformational virtual coaching and leadership training centered on individual strengths, skills, and real-world challenges
- Access to scalable learning experiences that foster new ways of thinking, expand capacity, and drive sustainable growth across your organization
- Partnership with a mission-driven organization working to advance the practice of leadership worldwide through a belief in the positive ripple effect that leadership development can have on individuals, teams, organizations, and society
Our approach goes beyond skill-building — we help leaders instill new, deeper ways of thinking. With CCL as your partner for coaching delivered virtually, you gain evidence-based, purpose-driven development that delivers meaningful, measurable, lasting impact for your organization.
Other Offerings Related to Virtual Coaching
Virtual Coaching in Our Leadership Programs
Many of our highly personalized, world-renowned core leadership training programs are available live online, and all include access to virtual coaching to help sustain impact and lasting behavior change.
Leverage our proven content, innovative instructional design, world-class faculty, and highly trained virtual coaches to offer high-impact online programs to your leaders, wherever they’re located.
Training for Virtual Team Leaders
Leading hybrid and virtual teams presents unique challenges. Help your organization’s people managers develop the skillsets and mindsets to build trust, rapport, and effective communication for virtual teamwork to thrive.
Our proven leadership training content module helps them learn how to lead, inspire, and coach others virtually.
What Our Clients Are Saying
As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with us for leadership development services including online coaching, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
Let’s Discuss Virtual Coaching
Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation about how our virtual leadership coaching services can help unlock the full potential of your organization.
Related to Virtual Coaching Programs & Solutions
Integrated coaching and leadership training allows you to reinforce and reaffirm learned skills. Learn more about our integrated coaching services today.
Executive coaching helps support leaders and sustain results from talent development investments. Learn more about our executive leadership coaching services.
Virtual Coaching: Research & Resources
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Frequently Asked Questions About Virtual Coaching
What is virtual coaching?
Virtual or online leadership coaching offers leaders the opportunity to participate in personalized executing coaching sessions with a trained leadership coach over the phone, through video, or on another web platform.
How do you conduct online coaching?
Virtual coaching can be conducted through a wide variety of web-based platforms, and it can also be done over the phone. It’s a highly personalized and interactive leadership development experience, and at CCL, our world-class coaches customize a personal learning environment.
What makes a good virtual leadership coach?
The best virtual leadership coaches are relationship-oriented, highly trained executive coaching professionals who have expertise and experience in leadership, leadership development, and organizational behavior, and who are passionate about offering leaders personalized support and challenge. They have strong business acumen, excellent interpersonal skills, and a high regard for confidentiality and ethics. In addition, a good virtual executive coach brings curiosity, an open mind, and a growth mindset to every development conversation with a leader.
How do you choose the best virtual coaching provider?
To make sure you’re choosing the best online coaching provider for your organization’s leaders, be sure to find a flexible and agile partner who focuses on customized experiences grounded in rigorous research, and who can offer large-scale online coaching solutions with a boutique feel. Effective virtual coaching providers maintain a human touch and high levels of personalization, yet offer scalable, real-time reporting and provide accessibility outside of traditional business hours. At CCL, our world-class virtual coaches are among the top 3% of coaches in the world, undergoing a rigorous selection, training, and quality control process.
Is virtual coaching effective?
Yes, online coaching can be a highly effective way to deliver personalized leadership development online. A good virtual leadership coach creates an individualized experience that maintains a human touch and personalized feel, tailored to the needs of the individual leader. Additionally, they can create self-awareness and increase leadership effectiveness through interpreting and facilitating delivery of 360 assessment feedback for development.
More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!
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