It is impossible to maximize your potential in any area without coaching. You may be good. You may be even better than everyone else, but without outside input you will never be as good as you could be. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. – Andy Stanley

WHAT IS EXECUTIVE COACHING?
An executive coach meets one-on-one with senior managers or leaders within an organization, such as a director, vice president, president, or other C-suite members, to understand the executive’s strengths, competencies, and blind spots relative to their ongoing performance and interpersonal relationships—family, direct reports, peers, clients, board members and senior leaders. An executive coach provides a safe, structured, and trustworthy space while helping the executive clarify and understand their current goals and long-term aspirations. Assessments are used throughout the process to understand strengths, motivation and emotional intelligence as perceived by the individual and their 360-degree network. For executives interested in deeper insights through peer-to-peer advice and networking, facilitated mastermind groups are available.

WHAT DOES AN EXECUTIVE COACH DO?
An executive coach works with high potential individuals and senior leaders in one-on-one sessions to increase the self-awareness of the client, clarify and achieve high-impact goals, achieve developmental objectives, and unlock exceptional potential. In partnership with the client, the executive coach explores the client’s values, strengths, perceptions, and capabilities. The executive coaching process is an action-based approach, dependent on a deep rapport of trust between coach and client. The initial coaching sessions focus on the coach and client building trust and rapport while defining near-term outcomes desired, actions to be taken and challenges preventing success. Later sessions explore opportunities to improve the client’s strengths, values, mindset and environment through reflection, dialogue, and structured exercises. Many clients benefit from the use of individual and 360-degree assessments for understanding themselves as individuals, professionals, and leaders. Typical outcomes from executive coaching are identifying professional performance and interpersonal strengths and gaps, developing short-term performance development plans, and expanding leadership capabilities.

HOW WOULD EXECUTIVE COACHING BENEFIT ME?
Executive leaders and high-potential individuals can become trapped in a “self-made mindset.” We may be able to achieve good performance and outstanding results through our personal effort, but all of us benefit from someone coming alongside us. There is exceptional value to the leader able to work closely with coach in achieving levels of performance and capability beyond what we think we can achieve. This is due to the intrinsic blind spots present in all of us that limit our full potential. When an executive leader builds a deep, trusting rapport with a coach, life-changing insights can be discovered and explored with an ability to perform at a sustainable, elite level achieved.

HOW DOES EXECUTIVE COACHING WORK?
Perspective clients register for an initial exploratory call. In the call, the client explores with a coach what the individual’s goals were for coaching and the available resources. From the initial call, the individual could pursue 1-2 individual coaching sessions or a short-term program of 6-12 sessions. One-on-one sessions are held approximately weekly for 45-60 minutes with a coach. Early sessions focus on clarifying long-term goals. Subsequent sessions focus on results, actions, and challenges facing the client. For executive coaching sessions, the coach will often recommend the client complete an assessment to provide deeper insight for the discussions and to establish a baseline for further growth. Initial assessments are usually targeted for establishing the client’s talents, needs, motivations, and stress behaviors. Later assessments focus on the client’s emotional and social functioning through self-reporting and through 360-degree feedback. Throughout the process, the client and coach co-create how to best move forward towards the client’s desired goals through intense discussion and actionable next steps. At the end of the requested sessions, the client can elect to continue with a structured program or individual sessions.

HOW DO I GET STARTED WITH AN EXECUTIVE COACH?
Click the “Get Started” link below and schedule a free exploratory call. During the scheduled follow up call, a coach will work with you to understand how coaching may benefit your personal goal achievement and to discuss the various coaching options available. There is no obligation from scheduling the call.