What is coaching?
The ability to coach is fundamentally different from the ability to perform as a CEO. It is the ability to see what behavior can be changed in a leader and those that cannot. A coach creates a provocative and challenging atmosphere where your own innate intuitive wisdom can manifest. An executive coach helps you to clarify values, articulate your goals and helps you define your strategies and plan. A coach holds a vision of you as successful and challenges you to achieve that vision. Application of psychological processes to behavioral change allows you to implement your vision and to impact the behavior of your organization. A coach is outside the organization and has no vested interest except to enhance the performance of the executive.
What is required of the executive?
Coaching relies on the alliance between you and your coach. Unlike other professional alliances such as consulting, the success results from the client granting power to the alliance rather than to the coach. You are expected to be continuously mindful of what you need and request that from the coach. It is this agreement that makes the collaboration between you and your coach so potent.
How will senior executives benefit?
You will reach higher levels of performance and effectiveness. Executive coaching emphasizes performance, not just the transfer of skills and knowledge. Starting from the premise that the client is naturally creative, resourceful and whole, we provide a confidential sounding board that knows you and the inner workings of your company. Executive coaching is not another new experiment in organizational management. Most of the world’s great leaders have relied on advice and counsel from an unbiased outsider.