Reasons To Work With An Executive Coach
Copyright (c) 2010 Natalie Michael
If you want to be a more effective leader, an Executive Coach is a key member of your professional network. Here are six reasons to make an investment in Executive Coaching.
1. A Thinking Partner - Executive coaches are outside of your organization and not caught up in the emotional dynamics at your workplace. Because of this, they can be a calm observer who can help you clarify your thinking and sharpen your perception and judgment.
2. Business Results - Provided that the Executive Coach has a background in business and organizational dynamics, they can help you to craft well thought out strategies and improve your business results. To do this, an Executive Coach will help you to clarify your goals, define the key behaviors for success, and they will help you to understand your current reality. Armed with this knowledge, you can create an action plan for closing the gap and for achieving higher levels of success.
3. Expand Your Influence at Work - Figuring out how to drive change in a business can be challenging. A skilled Executive Coach has a toolkit for helping you identify key stakeholders in the business and developing strategies for influencing them. This is not something we automatically know how to do. It is learned behavior. A coach can add value by helping you strategically decide which influence strategy is the most relevant for a business situation and they can help you to overcome and navigate negative corporate politics.
4. Career Development - There are different skills and competencies required for each level of leadership. A coach can ensure you are consciously aware of what is required for success at the next level of leadership, and work with you to systematically change your behavior and advance your career. They can also help you to identify your career goals, your preferred work style and your strengths. With this information you can carve out a work niche that is uniquely you.
5. Manage Your Emotions - When things get stressful and you are in your stress style (your habitual way of responding to stress which is counterproductive), your Executive Coach can point it out, help ground you, and help you respond to business issues and people in a proactive way, rather than react. Being reactive is usually what gets executives into trouble. They say the wrong thing in the heat of the moment, make poor decisions, and they create stress for their team.
6. Get Balance - If you are like most executives, you have too many emails and meetings and little time for the things that are important to you. An Executive Coach can help you to define your values, identify what is important to you, and help you to make shifts to your career and life which will ensure that you are healthy, and getting good results without being caught up in the rat race.
About the Author
Natalie Michael is an Executive Coach in Vancouver, Canada. For a complimentary coaching session, contact her at http://www.karmichaelgroup.com
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