What is Executive Coaching?

To understand what an Executive Coach does, we must first define “Coaching”.?

There is an endless supply of definitions.?Some examples are:

“A client-driven process consisting of a client-coach partnership in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize their personal and professional potential.”

“An ongoing approach to managing people with the goal to increase the probability of an employee's success by providing timely feedback, recognition, clarity and support.”

“A method of achieving set goals through dialogue that helps the client to correctly set a goal, to find the best way to achieve the goal and reveal hidden inner potential in a person.”

While all are correct, these are very dry, scientific definitions.?

Here is my personal definition of “Coaching”:

“A client/coach partnership created to achieve massive results in professional and personal areas of life with the intended overall goal to move off of Hell Island and over to Heaven Island while spending the least amount of time and energy required.”

Pretty straightforward!?Becoming the best person and professional you can be…activate your potential into reality…enabling leaders to unlock and unleash their full-potential so they bring greater value and abundance to the people and entities they serve.

Coaching is autonomous and different from consulting, teaching and technical training. Coaching has the distinction of being one of the most powerful interactions for making important positive change in life and business.?Successful coaching occurs best when an experienced coach asks open and explorative questions, and at the same time engages in deep listening to the answers given in order to facilitate the client forward from where they currently are (Hell Island) to where they intend to be (Heaven Island, of course!).

The coach helps the leader understand their current competencies, see how they’re perceived by others, and focus on identifying and clarifying current goals as well as the appropriate action steps and assessments to reach those goals. \

What are the benefits of Executive Coaching?

Coaching is probably one of the most—if not?the most—individually tailored practices in talent development as it involves a close and confidential relationship between the coach and the person being coached. The coaching relationship is a designed alliance in which the coach and the client become active collaborators and stakeholders in the single pursuit of meeting the client’s intended transformational outcomes.

Major benefits realized by the client include:

·???????Results for the client in their specific and clear goals and aspirations

·???????Improved professional and personal life as the interaction and effect each has on the other between these cannot be understated

·???????Immediate focus on the issues that could immediately kill a career path if not addressed - make goals and plans a REALITY with effective execution

·???????Personalized plan of attack that is specifically tailored to the client’s needs focused on transformation methodology that unleashes a person’s potential to maximize his or her performance – remedy weak CEO Board relationships, less-than-optimal leadership abilities, outdated management skills, work-life balance inadequacies, etc.

·???????Accelerate achievement of client goals via an experienced pathway with accountability and progress assessment

·???????Experienced, outside perspective on the issues that client is facing while avoiding expensive, time-consuming trial and error – get to the finish line

·???????Professional confidant to discuss items that can’t be discussed with client’s subordinates – “It’s lonely at the top!”

·???????Focus improvement and increased peace of mind knowing the correct direction and proven methodology of how to get there

Conclusion

Executive coaching is an essential service for CEOs, CFOs and other executives. Why? We are human.?Every person fails at times or simply need some guidance on issues and opportunities.?Ignoring and not addressing these opportunities immediately can cause issues in careers, organizations and personal lives. Executive coaches are a safe bet to help execs achieve immediate results and stay on the right track by offering experience and guidance through challenging scenarios while also teaching lessons that will make their decision-making a strength in the future.

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