Solution · Executive Coaching
Give a coach and a leader something concrete to work on.
The best coaches do their most useful work once the diagnostic phase is over. A shared, evidence-based starting point makes engagements sharper and shorter. Assessments identify where the leverage sits; the coaching does the work.
The situation
A leader is in a coaching engagement — internal or external. Chemistry is good, sessions are thoughtful. But months in, the client and the coach are still drawing the map instead of walking it.
What this solution does
Executive Coaching, as a Luks Prisma solution, pairs the leader and the coach with a written, decision-grade profile early — usually before session three. It compresses the diagnostic phase, gives both parties a common vocabulary, and lets the coaching contract be written around specific behaviors instead of a general goal.
How it works
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Assess the leader with Penta Personality and the Leadership Assessment.
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Run a three-way debrief: the leader, the coach, and a Luks Prisma practitioner.
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Contract the coaching engagement around two specific leadership behaviors.
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Set a 90-day checkpoint against those same two behaviors — not against session count.
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Optional: standardize the pre-coaching assessment as a company-wide practice.
Signals you probably need this
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Coaching engagements take a long time to feel like they are moving.
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The leader's manager cannot describe what the coach is actually working on.
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Multiple coaches are in flight across the organization with no shared frame.
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The organization pays for coaching and no one measures whether behavior changed.
What you receive
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Pre-coaching leadership profile.
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Three-way debrief facilitation.
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Behavior-anchored coaching contract template.
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90-day check-in structure the leader's manager can use.
What this is not
This is not a replacement for a coach. It is what an assessment platform contributes to the work a good coach is going to do anyway.
The principle
“The purpose of an assessment in a coaching engagement is to give the leader something concrete to work on — sooner.”