Leadership Coaching is well-known in management circles these days and has received both critical and complimentary attention. Executive Coaching (also known as performance coaching) is perhaps the most popular type of coaching to emerge from management development research. This tailored intervention has become extremely popular in organisations in the past three decades.
What is Executive Coaching?
Executive coaching is a powerful approach to leadership development for senior leaders. It enables them to transform their performance through working with a professional coach on their difficulties and goals in a way that offers both challenge and support.
Executive Coaching allows leaders to find the resources within to create long-lasting transformation. Meeting one-on-one with leaders or senior managers within a company, the executive coach provides a structured, trustworthy and safe environment in which they offer support for the individual. The coach also helps the leader see how they’re perceived by others, understand their current competencies, and focus on identifying and setting current goals accompanied by the necessary steps to reach them.
What Executive Coaching Is Not
Similar to therapy or counselling, executive coaching involves a hefty amount of introspection. However, unlike counselling which spends a lot of time looking toward one’s past, executive coaching is future-oriented.
How Can Executive Coaching Help Your Business?
Executive Coaching is one of the most powerful development tools organisations can use to enhance results in career performance. By dramatically improving the leader’s performance, it can put individuals on the fast track. Because executive coaching is focused entirely on the client’s strengths, goals and interferences, it is the quickest and most effective form of leadership development.
Developing a leader’s potential may include setting better goals, reaching goals faster, improving communications and relationships, making better decisions and improving personal leadership skills.
The measurable benefits of executive coaching for the leader can include:
- managing stress and conflict
- leading change and in times of crisis
- better strategic planning and decision-making ability
- capability to communicate effectively and fully motivate teams
- successful role transition
- improved work/life balance
- increased self-belief, confidence, and enjoyment
Providing executive coaching to the leaders of an organisation should lead to higher performance through:
- increased commitment and motivation from recipients of the coaching and their teams
- more empowerment, creativity, ownership unleashed in the business
- high employee engagement and retention of key people
- strengthening the effective implementation of organisational change through support
- improved efficiency from teams acting with more collaboration and agility
Are you a leader who wants to see yourself and others more clearly? Do you wish to leverage your existing strengths and learn better ways to communicate with your team? Executive Coaching can help you with all of the above and more. Start building more productive relationships and take your organisation to the next level.
For more information about Executive Coaching and how it can benefit your business, get in touch with Integrative Coaching and book your free session today!