Jim" needs your coaching this week. He is expecting you to promote him to VP in your next performance meeting. You feel this is unrealistic and in doing an alignment of his work to$-$date, you find he has $(3)$ performance gaps and this is what you need to meet about $($vs$.$ a promotion$).$ He believes he is in the top $10\%$ of the talent pool $-$ he is not. He also is a family friend of the president of the CO $($of your choice$).$ Feedback from his team echo your concerns: a$)$ he is impatient for the next move in the CO; b$)$ He's a legend in his own mind $-$ his ego needs some deflation; and c$)$ he lacks people skills. "Jim" does not recognize his leadership gaps and you need to explore if he is willing and capable of leading and developing people to advance in the CO$.$ What do you advise for possible leadership coaching for "Jim" at this stage and how does your company choice and our readings reinforce such $$Leadership Alignment $+$ Coaching Applications$$ in coaching him?