Coaching
Sometimes an executive needs assistance in thinking issues through and requires the counsel of an objective outsider. This may be about organizational decision making around process or structural issues, or it could personal decision making precipitated by promotions, relocations, or retirement. Often, managers themselves realize that something needs to change for them to move forward in their careers, but they just don’t know what to do about it. These managers need help for broadening their perspectives, addressing deficits, and closing effectiveness gaps. In applying the clinical approach, we draw on concepts from psychodynamic tradition, systems theory, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and other disciplines that are helpful in understanding how to make an executive a well-functioning and successful individual.
Why hire a coach? Managers tend to hire a coach to do one or several of the following things:
- understand and handle better difficult relationships
- engage in more effective career management
- expedite goal and priority setting
- develop a more effective leadership style
- speed up personnal development
- develop self-understanding of motivation in order to facilitate decision-making
- hone team-work skills
- manage superiors effectively
- strengthen self-confidence, assertiveness and/or well being
- make systemic gains, such as greater employee retention, enhanced customer satisfaction, and better overall results for the organization
Among the benefits:
- Achieving sustained growth, change and development in the individual, group and organization
- New and constructive way of looking at the situation and working with it
- Feeling free because there is no feel of fear, no envy and no aversion to truth
- Know where to start and where you want to go from here
- Moving away from the victim mentality and put you on your feet with a new vision and self-confidence
