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There are a number of benefits
and reasons for a leader to use an executive coach:
1. ASSESSMENT -
Assess skills and competencies
We can assess an executive's (or an entire team's) leadership
and communication skills and competencies.
2. EDUCATION -
Develop new and/or enhance existing skills
An ever-changing business environment often requires adoption
of new skills or refinement of existing ones. We can help build and enhance
a broad range of business, personal and inter-personal skills.
3. PERSPECTIVE -
Gain new, outside perspectives
We can bring different, sometimes challenging perspectives to
the table. Our varied backgrounds enable us to offer perspectives that at
the very least are a catalyst for provocative conversations.
4. IMAGE -
Improve the way an executive comes across
Character, communication skills, and listening ability are
more vital today than ever before to an executive as people expect more
polish, sophistication and subtlety. This, along with the increased use of
electronic communication methods, requires the personal side/real-person
side of an executive to come through in order to maintain
leadership-by-attraction vs. leadership-by-control.
5. BRAINSTORMING -
Fostering the discussion of ideas
Often, the next generation or evolution of a company is
conceived during open discussions of ideas. Most executives don't take
enough time for this type of creativity, nor do they have the right
"listening partner". An Executive Coach provides the environment in which
an executive's inklings, ideas, and concerns are respected, challenged, and
expanded.
6. OPINION -
Get an opinion from someone who has no vested interest in the
outcome
Everyone an executive works with (including a spouse) has a
need to either maintain the status quo or to make changes that benefit
themselves or their turf. This self-interest is normal, but may lead to a
lack of objectivity. An Executive Coach is often the only person in an
executive's Rolodex whose only priority is the executive's interests.
7. LEVERAGE -
Increase the ability to leverage time
We work to double (at a minimum) an executive's leverage and
effectiveness. This is particularly important in a world of ever-increasing
change and information overload.
8. OUTLET -
Have a secure, safe, and confidential outlet to vent, when
necessary
Pent up frustrations, anger, and disappointments impair good
judgment. Every executive needs a special, confidential person to complain
to, vent, and with whom to talk things out.
9. MIRROR -
Point out what an executive can't, won't, or doesn't see
Smart business
people understand that they have blind spots and most authorize an insider,
outsider, or a team with the permission and mandate to speak frankly and
illuminate the executive's blind spots. However, politics being as they
are, most individuals aren't empowered to speak their minds. We have the
observation and listening skills
to point out what needs to be brought to the surface.
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