Executive Coaching
There are so many wonderful things about the professional culture in the United States. One of the drawbacks is that the culture teaches us to believe that individuals have to succeed on their own. Leaders in the workplace are self-reliant and everything that is needed for success is inside of themselves. Executives learn that the business world is all about success and protection of work product and protection of self is the way to hold onto success.
The problem with this approach to business is that it fails to provide diversity of thought and ideas. It also creates a lot of very lonely executives who do not understand why the success that they worked so hard for didn’t create the environment in their lives that they imagined.
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."
- Jim Rohn
Are you at the top of a work group and feel like there is no one to help you or answer your questions? Do you have goals in your professional life that you want to achieve and don’t know where to start? Is there a dream inside of you wishing that you could change your line of work? Do you believe that you have achieved all of your goals and now you are wondering what is next? Has the passion left you in what you are currently doing? Are you working at your peak performance or are you not succeeding at your work? All of these questions are great questions. The problem does not go away if you ignore them.
One-on-one executive coaching is a very important part of your career. A coach does not give you the answers. A coach is someone who is your best cheerleader and someone who helps you find the answers within yourself, bringing out your best ideas, encouraging you and providing someone to work ideas and problems out in the open. This brings out a lot of alternative ideas and allows you to choose what is best for you and what is best for your work group.
Coaching is highly effective with a coach facilitating in a workgroup setting. Work groups can be highly ineffective at creating work products if the group does not have sufficient skills to communicate, are afraid of difficult conversations, and are unable to allow diversity of ideas. Coaching will help to facilitate creativity, problem solve and handle difficult conversations, and can provide the tools to build a high-functioning teams who become very productive and creative ideas can flow again.
How the process works
Step 1 - Orientation. Let's see if I am a great fit for you and I can help you.
Step 2 - Get to know you. This is a much longer step that it implies. We need to find out who you are, what your passions are and what you want to solve.
Step 3 - Develop a plan and steps to implement. We will work on one step at a time. Sometimes life happens and our steps need to be redirected.
Maintenance - When you reach your goals, sometimes you realize that you need to make changes to those goals. Or you just need to make adjustments.
Case Study
I was prompted to call a wonderful friend and colleague. He is in his fifties and seemed to have it all, a wife, grown successful children and a home in an area where most people would want to live. The voice at the other end of the phone was shaky and trying to hold back tears. I had learned that my friend had been let go from his executive position. No real reason was given because it was due to a new CEO who wanted someone “different”. My friend felt betrayed and lost.
What has happened in our society where a job defines us? We spend so much time running to work and staying late so that we can keep our job. There is a saying that “some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” (Hermann Hesse) What if we focused on who we are, what makes us passionate in life and enjoying the journey rather than the outcome?
I worked with my friend on what his inner mind was telling him was not accurate. He couldn’t change the outcome, it was set for him. It had nothing to do with his worth or his abilities. He finally decided to use his writing creativity to become a new outlet. In one year since, he has completed a book which is climbing the best sellers list and he has produced one of his scripts onto a local stage production with inquiries to have his play at other cities across the county. What seemed tragic a year ago is now a distant memory and an opportunity to do new things.
Are you in the middle of a transition that was not of your choosing? What if you could see that transition as a way to escape what holds you back and to move forward into something more liberating and authentic to who you are?
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