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. Longer than this and the client will begin to lose focus.

While executive coaching may have some similar outcomes to executive education in that the client will certainly have a great learning experience that will move them forward in their career, it by no means has the same focus. Executive coaching aims to support the client in achieving a set of three to nine challenging and inspiring goals that will move them forward in their executive career in whatever capacity they choose. The fact that the executive drives the entire process and therefore must take responsibility is fundamental to the success of such a coaching series.

The coach's role in this situation is one of mentor, teacher, support person and advisor. But at no the point does the coach impose his/her agenda on the coaching client. This means that while the coach may be sure that the client should pursue a particular course of action, even if the coach knows without a doubt that it will be in the clients’ best interest, the coach will not try to push or manipulate the client into following that course of action.

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