Executive coaching: The best way of learning
Executive coaching is becoming more and more prevalent with an increasing number of corporate managers interested in undertaking a corporate executive coaching series of sessions. Many people still have a misunderstanding of what this type of coaching is all about. Many people think executive coaching is carried out in the same way that executive training or executive development courses would be run. They have a picture of a coach standing at the front of a room of twenty to thirty people providing executive education, instructing people as to improvements they can make in their management and communication skills. This couldn't be further from the truth. An executive coaching series is conducted by a specially trained coach with only one client at a time. The coaching series can be made up of between eight and twelve sessions, each at least an hour-long but no longer than an hour and a half. L onger than this and the client will begin to lose focus. While executive coachi...