On Coaching
What Coaches Provide
Executive coaches provide a committed, trusting partnership designed to help clients realize more fulfilling
professional and personal lives. Executive coaches help executives, and teams, strengthen their performance,
increase effectiveness and efficiencies, develop self and organizational awareness, maximize and leverage
their talents and competencies, identify and attain goals, expand their leadership capability, improve communications
and interpersonal relationships, achieve greater recognition and reward, enhance the quality of their work and their lives.
Coaches are trained to listen, to observe, and to customize their approach to individual client needs.
They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they recognize the client is naturally creative and resourceful.
The coach's role is to provide support to enhance the skills, competencies, learning edge, creativity, and resources
that the client possesses, and has access to, and encourage rigor in the way the individual thinks, envisions,
plans,
and executes.
What Coaching Is
Coaching is a partnership between a coach and an individual, or team, that supports the achievement
of extraordinary results, based on goals set by the individual, or team. Through the coaching relationship,
individuals focus on the skills and actions needed to successfully produce their personally relevant results
and improved performance while benefiting the growth of the organizations in which they work.
Using a process of active listening and active inquiry, a coach offers their observations and perceptions,
as well as concepts and principles, for the purpose of generating possibilities, and identifying powerful action steps.
Through the coaching process, the clarity that is needed to support the most effective actions is achieved.
Coaching accelerates the individual's, or team's, progress by providing greater focus and awareness of possibilities
leading to most effective choices. Coaching concentrates on where the individual is now, what they need, choose to do,
to get where they want to be in the future, in their future.
The Benefits of Coaching
High-performing individuals and leaders need true and present partners, and they deserve opportunity to
have meaningful conversations in a safe and trusting space with a partner who will ensure that focus on their needs,
commitments, and responsibilities are kept central, assuring support in their challenges to live and lead authentically,
and become a more integrated self. Retaining a coach will accelerate the development and growth of the individual,
and the timetable to achieve the desired goals. Engaging in the coaching process focuses time and effort
dedicated to
pursuing improvement in all relevant and identified areas for growth, development, achievement, and success.
Individuals, and organizations, who engage in coaching relationships should expect to experience
fresh perspectives on personal and organizational challenges and opportunities, expanded thinking and decision making,
enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in their work, and in their life.
Consistent with a commitment to enhancing their individual effectiveness, the executive can expect to see
appreciable results in areas of productivity and execution, achievement of goals relevant to themselves,
and their organizations, and personal satisfaction with their work, their sustained purpose, their passions, their life.
- inspired by the International Coach Federation, with appreciation NEXT>
