Executive Coaching

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Here at the-Coaching Blog-run by Gerard O’Donovan, our aim is to constantly bring value to those seeking to improve their lives. Therefore we have a policy of publishing articles and materials by guest authors whom we value and appreciate. Today’s guest author is Liz Harwood AMM.
Currently, the buzzword of the professional industries has to be executive or business coaching, yet historically it has always been the case that the ‘more skilled’ taught the ‘less skilled’ how to be productive within tribes or within a community.
Leadership skills are not always genetic, and although they can be developed, not everyone is a born leader.  TV programmes appear to be following the trend to find leaders, whether overtly in programmes such as the Apprentice, or more subtly via the extreme survival expert Bear Grylls who seeks out leaders in ‘The Island’.  The producers explore the human potential by thrusting participants into the jungle to survive in extreme circumstances, thus demonstrating the different reactions of people when taken out of their normal environment and forced to work as a team in a dangerous environment. Bear watches the characters develop, notices attributes for good leaders, watches the way they overcome personal challenges and fears, and guides their thought processes through a series of direct questions. He never directly advises them how to overcome any task or challenge, he simply provides the tools to help them achieve the results using the available resources.
So what makes a good leader in extreme circumstances?

• Someone who can keep their cool in a challenging situation?
• Someone who can motivate others to reach further than they anticipated?
• Someone who methodically organizes the roadmap between two points and successfully navigates his/her team to reach that goal?

All of those and many more attributes make up a leader, however, in a business environment, how does a leader/manager/director/CEO keep ahead of the trend, on track and able to deliver?
By working with an executive coach.
An executive coach will look for emotional intelligence (EQ), and know that natural leaders understand their mental processes, and know how to direct themselves. An executive coach will seek out the ‘soft skills’ that can be used to motivate others to perform at their best. A good coach will recognise that as individuals advance to senior executive levels there are fewer people to offer valuable feedback and yet at this critical time it is even more important to identify goals, be open to implement positive change, sharpen skills and develop new ways to tackle old problems.
How do you choose a good coach?  
Firstly, ensure you seek out the results based testimonials. Any good directory of coaches will have listings, but also testimonials from clients who are happy with the level of insight and direction they’ve received.
Ensure the coach is fully accredited. The IIC&M have strict standards and ethics, and the accreditation process ensures that all coaches accredited through them can demonstrate the core competencies to an internationally recognised level of qualification and experience.
Feel comfortable with your coach.  Remember this is someone who will challenge your thinking and underpin the advancement of your development into unchartered territories.
When would you use a business coach?
Typical reasons for employing business coaches at any stage of the business growth curve include:

• Start-up and business planning
• Learning to delegate
• Building a team structure
• Resolving changing relationships
• Introducing management and financial processes
• Developing a marketing plan
• Major expansion, new project
• Business turnaround
• Sale or purchase

However, it can also be as simple as knowing that it’s lonely at the top! As your development takes you further up the business hierarchy there are less people to use as sounding boards, much information is confidential, and there will be areas where you don’t want to show your vulnerability.
Enlisting the guidance of an experienced business coach enables you to expand and stretch your thinking, and provides a trusted resource, as your coach becomes an independent confidential sounding board.
The IIC&M have a directory of internationally accredited coaches (http://www.iicandm.org/directory-coaches-mentors/) who have achieved the highest level of accreditation.  Their testimonials speak for themselves.
Our goals during 2015 are to align with major corporations offering them access to our directory when choosing the coaches that will be instrumental in the success of their companies’ business growth.  
If you want to be part of that campaign and listed on our directory, we need to hear from you.  Please contact info@iicandm.org to learn more.
Credit Source:
Liz Harwood AMM
Business Development Director
 
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