As someone considering executive coaching, you likely have questions. Check out these executive coaching FAQs and please feel free to contact me if you need more information.
What is coaching?
Now more than ever, managers are called upon to demonstrate superior communications skills and leadership ability, while navigating a variety of regulations and laws in how they deal with other employees. Conducting performance evaluations, conflict resolution, and resolving issues before they rise to that level, are not skills that come naturally to every manager. This is where executive coaching can help. Click here to learn more.
What should you look for in a coach?
The first thing you need to consider is, what are you trying to achieve? Coaching takes on many forms and there are many forms of coaches. Find someone with the training, experience and personality you need to move your business forward. Interview a couple of coaches. Have they even been trained to be a coach? There is a methodology for coaching, and coaches should be trained in that methodology. Are they a member of the International Coaching Federation? Click here to learn more.
What is the coaching process like?
The three-part coaching process includes 1) gaining clarity, 2) getting focus, and 3) implementation. Click here to learn more.
What are the benefits of coaching?
Some of the benefits of coaching include: greater self-awareness, getting feedback from an unbiased third-party, understanding best business practices and developing skills in key leadership competencies, and more. Click here to learn more.
What are the outcomes of coaching?
Some of the most common outcomes include: confidence making critical strategic business decisions, improved profitability from a more disciplined and focused business plan, accelerated critical skill building in key leadership areas resulting in improved productivity by leveraging their work teams, greater self-confidence to handle daily stress and constant change, and understanding their strengths and how to utilize them more effectively. Click here to learn more.