Executive Coaching: An Essential Tool
13 June 2014
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Running a business and managing teams isn't innate. A strong personality and natural leadership qualities are assets for high-responsibility roles, but that's not all. A leader faces many challenges: taking action, managing difficult situations, mediating, making decisions, setting direction, developing a strategy—all while motivating teams.
Experience, skills, and personal qualities alone aren't enough. You also need to listen and gain perspective on your situation, yourself, and others.
Coaching is the ideal tool to gain that perspective and find the resources within yourself to achieve your goals. Did you know?
What is executive coaching?
Coaching is personalized support designed to help leaders understand and manage the inherent tensions of their role.
The goal of coaching isn't to "change" the person, but to work with them, based on objectives, on short- and medium-term changes and improvements, with the possibility of impacting attitude, skills, and behavior long-term.
Coaching helps you identify your strengths and leverage them to identify what might be hindering you and how to overcome it. This tool improves your communication and relationships within your company.
When does it apply?
Coaching is a great way to manage stressful situations like internal conflicts, communication problems, and difficulties with others (partners, co-leaders, employees). It's also very useful for managing relationship or behavioral issues within the company.
It provides an adapted response to any professional change or evolution, whether related to the person's context (new team, new organization, or changes in the external environment) or directly to the person (mobility, promotion, new responsibilities...).
Coaching is relevant for any leader wanting perspective, new ideas, renewal, or a new way to move things forward. It's also a great way to develop leadership qualities.
Finally, whenever a leader wants to be more effective in their decisions and implementation, coaching is necessary and useful.
What are the advantages?
Coaching increases self-confidence, allows for prompt action, maintains an overall vision without neglecting details, helps overcome obstacles more easily, boosts confidence, and increases persuasiveness.
Coaching has also emerged as a particularly suitable support tool for SME or VSB business owners who are often isolated and overwhelmed by daily demands. Coaching offers them the opportunity to gain perspective to better understand the overall challenges of their business: strategy, relationships with employees and external partners, work-life balance, etc.
How does it work?
Coaching sessions last 2 to 3 hours, depending on the coach and objectives, with a frequency of one to two sessions per month. Generally, the maximum is 12 sessions over 6 to 8 months, sometimes longer if the coachee wishes. Sessions initially take place face-to-face and can then continue by phone or Skype.
The content of a coaching session varies from person to person and depends on the objectives. The coach adapts their approach to the client's specific needs. However, the goal is always the same: to encourage openness in the coachee.
Conclusion
Galileo said: "You cannot teach anyone anything; you can only help them discover it within themselves." Coaching is particularly effective because it leverages existing talents and resources rather than providing external knowledge. Coaching will help you identify and make the personal and professional changes needed to accelerate and amplify your success and the resulting satisfaction. Others have understood this and reaped the benefits—why not you?
Philippe Montant
CEO of ReKrute
Experience, skills, and personal qualities alone aren't enough. You also need to listen and gain perspective on your situation, yourself, and others.
Coaching is the ideal tool to gain that perspective and find the resources within yourself to achieve your goals. Did you know?
What is executive coaching?
Coaching is personalized support designed to help leaders understand and manage the inherent tensions of their role.
The goal of coaching isn't to "change" the person, but to work with them, based on objectives, on short- and medium-term changes and improvements, with the possibility of impacting attitude, skills, and behavior long-term.
Coaching helps you identify your strengths and leverage them to identify what might be hindering you and how to overcome it. This tool improves your communication and relationships within your company.
When does it apply?
Coaching is a great way to manage stressful situations like internal conflicts, communication problems, and difficulties with others (partners, co-leaders, employees). It's also very useful for managing relationship or behavioral issues within the company.
It provides an adapted response to any professional change or evolution, whether related to the person's context (new team, new organization, or changes in the external environment) or directly to the person (mobility, promotion, new responsibilities...).
Coaching is relevant for any leader wanting perspective, new ideas, renewal, or a new way to move things forward. It's also a great way to develop leadership qualities.
Finally, whenever a leader wants to be more effective in their decisions and implementation, coaching is necessary and useful.
What are the advantages?
Coaching increases self-confidence, allows for prompt action, maintains an overall vision without neglecting details, helps overcome obstacles more easily, boosts confidence, and increases persuasiveness.
Coaching has also emerged as a particularly suitable support tool for SME or VSB business owners who are often isolated and overwhelmed by daily demands. Coaching offers them the opportunity to gain perspective to better understand the overall challenges of their business: strategy, relationships with employees and external partners, work-life balance, etc.
How does it work?
Coaching sessions last 2 to 3 hours, depending on the coach and objectives, with a frequency of one to two sessions per month. Generally, the maximum is 12 sessions over 6 to 8 months, sometimes longer if the coachee wishes. Sessions initially take place face-to-face and can then continue by phone or Skype.
The content of a coaching session varies from person to person and depends on the objectives. The coach adapts their approach to the client's specific needs. However, the goal is always the same: to encourage openness in the coachee.
Conclusion
Galileo said: "You cannot teach anyone anything; you can only help them discover it within themselves." Coaching is particularly effective because it leverages existing talents and resources rather than providing external knowledge. Coaching will help you identify and make the personal and professional changes needed to accelerate and amplify your success and the resulting satisfaction. Others have understood this and reaped the benefits—why not you?
Philippe Montant
CEO of ReKrute
