Do you have a Coach?, as a CEO!

“Coaching is destined to be the new leadership approach of the 21st century”

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1.????Are you a CEO facing challenges?

2.????Do you know who an Executive Coach is?

3.????Do you know how you can benefit from an Executive Coach?

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Introduction

If you are a CEO, you must be quite aware of the challenges and situations you need to face on a day to day basis. Your job is not at all easy because you not only handle your responsibilities but you also have to look after your team and their needs. It can get overwhelming at times to multitask and get everything in place at the right time. The team looks upto you for the smallest of things and relies on your wisdom and knowledge. In such challenging times, you cannot take things lightly since a lot depends on the decisions you make. Basic human nature is that you cannot know everything, it’s not humanly possible. You too need help and guidance sometimes to lead the right path. An Executive Coach can be of great aid in such sulking times.

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Saloni, CEO of Gowmore Co., a start up of organic foods, feels over burdened with work since all her team members needs her guidance for the smallest of tasks. She feels like she needs to do most of the work of the team by herself. She wants her team to be less dependent on her and have more clarity regarding their work to achieve the targets. However, she has no idea how to change that. At such a time, she got herself an Executive Coach which helped her find a way to guide her team and make them independent.

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Who is an Executive Coach?

Executive Coaching sounds fancy and exclusive. It was for quite sometime but now it has started to become a popular and trending concept. Executive coaching aims at creating personal as well as professional awareness along with encouraging actions to help the team members to learn and the organization to grow.

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The question arising in your mind must be how is counselling different from Executive Coaching?

Executive Coaching is quite unique since it targets the leadership skills and helps in implementing an achievement-oriented approach. Executive coaching is mainly action-based, and it seeks to cultivate more intelligent, aware, and ambitious employees.

Executive Coaching emphasizes on creating a tailor made solution for individuals after taking into consideration their –

·???????strengths

·???????weaknesses

·???????areas of problems

·???????unique skillsets

·???????circumstances, and

·???????areas of improvement

Executive Coaches helps in learning how to correctly use strengths and overcome weaknesses. One of the main roles of an Executive Coach is to assist people in identifying and generating a development plan to achieve their goals.

Executive coaching puts a focus on various areas such as –

·???????psychology

·???????business

·???????motivation

·???????leadership skills

·???????sales tactics

·???????communication

·???????team building

An Executive Coach will make you aware about your position and importance in the business world and the potential career paths available to you in the future for your growth. They also facilitate CEOs, on how to efficiently run their teams along with teaching each team member how to become a better employee and team player.

Benefits of Executive Coaching

Major aspects of Executive Coaching and its benefits include:

·???????Creating awareness

·???????Analyzing and giving constructive feedbacks

·???????Monitoring progress and ensuring accountability

·???????Identifying development opportunities

·???????Facilitating further learning

·???????Asking deeper questions to find solutions

·???????Providing long-term support and encouragement?

Stated below are some benefits of an Executive Coach that will make your work life easy -

1. Aids in reaching your goals faster

We all have certain goals and targets in mind. However, the best goals and targets have concrete deadlines and your Executive Coach will facilitate ??you towards them without distractions. They will invest time in getting to know you, your dreams, your future plans and your aspirations. With the help of that, they’ll set achievable milestones for you that can be worked on right away.

2. Increase accountability

We usually tend to procrastinate and avoid doing tasks no matter how badly we want to get it done with. We are so used to staying in our comfort zones that we never try stepping out of it. An?Executive Coach?will follow up on you tasks and expect you to achieve them within a certain timeframe. You’ll want to think twice about procrastinating because they'll keep a timely track of your progress.

3. Help you see things from a fresh perspective

Executive Coach will help you get a new perspective on things; things that you haven’t considered yet which might work in your favour. They help you unlock options you haven’t explored before. You’ll learn to look at situations and problems differently; in a much positive manner and use your skills in new productive ways.

4.????Build better relationships

CEOs can dramatically limit their effectiveness by only being willing or able to build strong relationships with certain kinds of people. Most of the time it will be people of their same management level or work circle. A good Executive Coach will help you recognize that tendency in yourself and work against it. He will make you understand the importance of creating and maintain healthy relations with people from different peers, teams and levels. In times of need, he shall also offer you tools to support you in understanding and creating strong and vital working relationships with a wider variety of people.

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Conclusion

Being at such a superior level in your work life, there should be no shame in asking for external help in times of need. It is always better to take guidance and make the right decisions than to take the wrong decisions all by yourself as the entire team shall be facing the consequences.

If you are looking for an Executive Coach then feel free to connect with me on Aaskrishi@gmail.com.

Cheers,

Jagmohan Rishi Singh

Executive Coach