Coaching

These kinds of questions and others have held corporations back from investing in the personal development of their executives. For more than twenty years, corporations have had a keen interest in the physical health of their top employees, insisting on executive health physicals as a preventive tool. After all, physical health affects the executive’s ability to perform his or her job. Executive health physicals today are an accepted part of corporate life, impacting the bottom line in a way corporate officers can understand. When it comes to Executive Coaching, however, corporations have been a bit slower to come around to understanding how the executive’s personal success, much life personal health, can also bring incredible benefits to the bottom line.

The complete benefits of Executive Coaching cannot be determined simply by looking at the progress of one executive and his or her relationship to the company. As more corporations recognize the value of Executive Coaching, the tendency to think locally, rather than globally, will fade in favor of a holistic viewpoint towards the company’s position in the community and in the world.

Executives most often seek coaching to improve upon:
• Problem solving strategies
• Decision making abilities
• Persuasive tactics
• Influencing others
• Time management
• Conflict resolution
• Delegation of responsibilities
• Team building
• Leadership issues
• Effective communication
• Presentation skills

The main goal of the executive coach is to create an action plan, based upon behavioral feedback, to develop an effective roadmap to assist the executive in achieving personal and professional success. While this does not require a degree in psychology, it does require that the coach understands a number of essential factors, including:
• Interpersonal relationships
• Group dynamics
• Organizational behavior
• The business world

The executive coach must also offer the highest ethical standards to create a sense of trust the executive, and the organization, will surely insist on having with the coach.”The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.”

Above all other resources, people are the primary resource. Despite our virtual lifestyles, a company cannot survive without people. Developing and managing the unique strengths of people within the organization requires professional assistance, executive coaches who are qualified and trained to optimize individual assets, minimize weaknesses and support and encourage the development of personal and professional skills that result in performance enhancement.

In order to assist executives in reaching greater heights of performance, the coach must expand the executive’s ability to effectively take action. This is not something you can simply tell someone to do. It is an ongoing process that encourages the executive to dig deeper to create solutions that will bring enhanced results. It is a form of accountability that encourages a proactive outlook to the issues of management and leadership. It is a foundation for deepening awareness of the executive’s individual talents and strengths. It is the power of personal potential.

• More effective leadership abilities
• A greater sense of confidence
• An increased vision of the future
• Enhanced productivity – Greater job satisfaction
• Improved people skills
• Superior decision-making abilities
• Clarity in communication
• A greater sense of teamwork
• Improved financial stability
• Better balance between personal and professional life
• Improved mental and physical health – Reduction in Stress

This list offers a huge array of benefits available to executives who are fortunate enough to have a positive coaching experience. When seen from this viewpoint, coaching is a highly effective and inexpensive method for developing people and strengthening an organization.