What is Executive Coaching?
Executive coaching is a proven, confidential, one-on-one personalized development process facilitated by a professional coach to enhance a leader’s success at achieving his/her professional and leadership goals. Coaching enables committed leaders to build and embed essential leadership capabilities. Coaching helps leaders discover their potential and deliver the results consistent with that potential. Executive coaching is about exploration and awareness, and it is built on a foundation of trust and teamwork.
How Coaching Works:
Indentifying Goals: The client, with the coach’s assistance, identifies the key areas that are vital to his/her effectiveness, future performance, and desired results.
Increasing Awareness: The coach helps raise the client’s awareness of issues and obstacles.
Catalyst for Change: The role of the coach is to serve as a catalyst to facilitate change.
Asking Hard Questions: The coach pushes and encourages the client in his/her development.
Active Engagement: We recommend a minimum of two sessions per month (with a maximum of four). We provide unlimited telephone and e-mail support throughout the engagement.
Coaching Is Not Consulting or Therapy: The coach is not there to fix the client or give them the answers. It is not a substitute for supervisory oversight. It is also not intended for management or technical skills building.
What Are the Benefits of Coaching?
Outstanding Investment for Leadership Development: Independent research has shown ROIs of between 100% and 600%.
Coaching Builds Stronger Leaders: Executives who participate in coaching are more engaged and effective leaders.
Self-Awareness: Coaching promotes sustainable change by guiding clients to self-discovery and self-correction.
Coaching fosters growth and change: Organizations that use coaches are better prepared for lead and implement change.
To Learn More About Coaching:
Georgetown Leadership Coaching Program
International Coach Federation
ICF Greater Richmond
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