Clients report these EXTRAORDINARY Results from Executive Coaching:
- Healthier Relationships
(92% of clients report better relationships) - Improved Communications
(94% of clients report reduced conflict) - A Calm, Clear, and Happier Mind
(95% of clients report greater happiness, and 91% report reduced stress) - Dramatic Increases in Performance and Productivity
(92% of clients report better teamwork and collaboration)
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What is Executive Coaching?
Executive coaching is a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize your personal and professional potential. In a coaching engagement, our coaches will:
- Encourage your self-discovery
- Elicit solutions and strategies generated by you
- Help hold you responsible and accountable for results you want
- Provide objective assessments and observations that foster your self-awareness and that of others
- Listen closely to understand your circumstances fully
- Act as a sounding board to explore possibilities and support intentional planning and decision-making
- Champion opportunities and potential
- Encourage you to stretch commensurate with your personal strengths and aspirations
- Foster shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives
- Reveal blind spots to illuminate new possibilities and support the creation of alternative scenarios
- Maintain professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, and adhere to the profession’s code of ethics.
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What Kind of Training Do Our Executive Coaches Have?
Our Executive Coaches have decades of experience as Leaders, Managers, Fundraisers, and Entrepreneurs. They also each passed through a rigorous training regimen for one year that included five courses, at least 100 hours of verifiable coaching hours, supervised coaching sessions with clients by a Master Certified Coach and concluded with both written and oral examinations. Our coaches are certified through the International Coach Federation (ICF).
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What are Some Reasons I Would Work with an Executive Coach?
You might choose to work with a coach for many reasons, including but not limited to the following:
- Something urgent, compelling, or exciting is at stake (a challenge, stretch goal, or opportunity)
- A gap exists in knowledge, skills, or confidence
- Change is afoot in your workplace or life
- A desire to accelerate results
- Communication breakdowns at work or home
- A lack of clarity with choices to be made
- Success has started to become problematic
- Work and life are out of balance, creating unwanted consequences
- Core strengths need to be identified, along with how best to leverage them
- You’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out
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How Do I Ensure Compatibility with an Executive Coach?
Overall, you should be prepared to design the coaching alliance with your coach consciously. Here are a few other tips:
- Interview the coach to determine “what feels right” regarding the chemistry. Our coaches are accustomed to being interviewed, and an introductory conversation of this type is FREE
- Look for stylistic similarities and differences between the coach and you and how these might support your growth
- Discuss your goals for coaching the coach’s preferred way of working with clients
- Talk with the coach to establish some agreements up front and how they handle questions or problems
- Remember that coaching is a partnership, so speak with your coach about what you want
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What Does it Take for an Executive Coaching Alliance to be Successful?
Working with an Executive Coach requires a commitment of time and energy, as well as a financial commitment. To be successful, executive coaching asks certain things of you, including:
- Observing your behaviors and communications with others
- Listening to your intuition, assumptions, and judgments
- Challenging your existing attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and developing new ones that serve your goals
- Leveraging your personal strengths and overcoming your limitations to develop a winning style
- Taking decisive actions, despite your discomfort and personal insecurities, to reach for extraordinary results
- Showing compassion for yourself and others while learning new behaviors and experiencing setbacks
- Committing to not taking one’s self so seriously and using humor to lighten and brighten any situation
- Summoning the courage to reach for more than before while engaging in continual self-examination
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