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Leadership & Executive
Coaching
An organization cannot grow any faster than the people
in it grow. The comfort zone is the
failure zone for any business or individual. The personal and professional
growth of the leader is especially critical.
No one can honestly coach themselves which is why the most successful
leaders in all fields engage a professional coach at some point in their
career. Many work with a coach through
critical business and career transitions while many others stay connected with
their coach on an ongoing basis.
With a coach you can gain new perspectives and insights
about yourself, your team and your organization. Friends, family, co-workers, employees and
bosses are naturally very supportive and encouraging. At times they may also provide valid feedback
and challenges to adjust behavior.
However, the personal relationships can become an obstacle and although
well intended the challenges may seem to be more for their benefit than your
own. A Leadership Coach provides a
unique blend of safety and challenge.
Safety is in the form of empathic understanding and encouragement to
look inward to reflect on personal values and purpose then reconcile them to
the outward circumstances and organizational requirements. Challenge is in the form of direct feedback
and holding you accountable to focus on your goals and to take the actions needed
to achieve them.
Executive Coaching Involves:
- Defining the expected business
results needed
- Identifying team behavior changes
needed to accomplish the results
- Addressing personal leadership
challenges for the Leader
- Identifying specific behaviors that
if changed could enhance performance
- Discussions that are supportive and
future focused
- Asking questions to challenge
assumptions and beliefs
- Encouraging balance in important
aspects of the Leader's life
- Challenging actions and expecting
accountability for progress
- Helping the Leader discover blind
spots in how they see themselves
- Calling attention to mixed signals
the Leader may be sending
- Coaching is not therapy, counseling
or consulting
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