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Executive Coaching

It would be unthinkable to sign up the best players in the league and not provide them with a coach. Likewise, executives who wrestle with increasingly tough competitive business issues need the help of a coach to assist with developing new insights into managing, personal development, interpersonal skill building, decision making, and goal achievement.

What is Coaching?

Coaching is an individually tailored, highly focused, results-oriented performance planning process that provides a leader with the opportunity to hone his/her skills and achieve personal growth so that s/he may become even more effective. The coach offers the executive new ideas for dealing with issues and problems, and the opportunity to get critical feedback within a "safe" and confidential environment.

Why Coaching is Important

Leaders are often isolated from direct feedback and frequently don’t have a sounding board. They manage a workforce that is typically comprised of specialists in fields where the leader has less knowledge than his/her reports. Their success is based on their ability to get accurate and complete information from others, and then to make the best decisions within constrained time periods. These challenges take a toll. The coach is a non-political, non-threatening advisor, motivator, mentor, trainer, and sometimes therapist who offers the leader unbiased assistance based on years of experience working with executives. The coach helps leaders bridge the gap between what executives have to do and what they were trained to do.

Added Benefits!

For graduates of Empower U programs, coaching has even more benefits:

Coaching refreshes and enhances the learning gained from Empower U programs
Coaching helps executives put into practice the "LIVE IT!" component of the programs
Coaching helps the executive figure out the best way to follow through on commitments
Coaching will assist the organization with the implementation of large-scale culture change as more executives attend programs
Companies that follow Empower U programs with coaching get exponentially more for their training dollars

How the Coaching Process Works

Coaching usually begins with a meeting between the executive and the coach to identify expected outcomes, determine objectives or milestones for desired improvements, and clarify the coach’s role. Next, the coach gathers input from the executive and other available sources in order to gain a better understanding of the executive’s world. Goals and a plan of action are established, and the regularly scheduled coaching sessions take place.

The coaching commitment is usually six months to a year or more. Sessions are scheduled at the mutual convenience of the executive and the coach.

Coach’s Role

The role of the coach includes several goals:

To give the leader 100% honest feedback without judging
To motivate the leader to accept challenges and get over hurdles that the leader would find difficult or impossible to do on his/her own
To bring insight to the leader that will create new possibilities or open new perspectives
To offer expert advise on human resources issues
To prepare the leader for personal growth

The coach’s entire focus is to help the leader be successful.

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