What is Executive Coaching?


Coaching is a process through which executives are helped to improve their performance and personal effectiveness while reducing stress. Our program offers the rare opportunity to stand back and to take a fresh look at the experience and assumptions of a lifetime. It:

Facilitates the identification of inner resources


Targets growth areas


Promotes a healthy balance between career and personal life which sustains the vitality
necessary for effective leadership


May reveal the need to learn specific behaviors aimed at enhancing short-term or long-term performance


May challenge underlying beliefs and values and invite more fundamental changes


The coach offers direction and assistance, but the choice rests with the individual. It is he or she that discovers the self-knowledge which forms the foundation for continued growth.

 

 

THE COACH

The coach has no internal links with the company and therefore can be freely confided in. They can have the role of supporter, co-creator, political confidant, and skills developer. Within each role they will bring certain skills:

Supporter:

Counselor
Advisor
Listener

Creator:

Problem Solver
Idea Generator
Opportunity Organizer

Political Confidant:

Challenger
Influencer
Debater
Decision Facilitator


Skills Developer:

Innovator
Thought Expander
Trainer
Mentor


Advantages of using a coach include:

Independence
Impartiality
Objectivity
Wide knowledge and experience
Different viewpoint
Experience of weighing opportunities, risks, and rewards

 

What is the coaching process, and what are the benefits of hiring an executive coach?

 

 

 

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