Why Retain An Executive Coach?

You’ve accomplished a lot over the course of your career. As you look around your office you can look back on the late nights and aggressive timelines knowing that it was all worth it. Despite having come this far via your own skills, grit, and determination, it may be worth considering working with an executive coach to help you stay on top or reach the next level.

Why would someone retain an executive coach? First of all, an executive coach is not a “life coach”. You’ve proven your ability to thrive in a competitive environment and achieve tremendous success; an executive coach is about helping you navigate the unique challenges that accomplished individuals such as yourself encounter in the corporate world.

Iron sharpens iron and an executive coach can help you keep your skills sharp as you cut through the red tape that stands in the way of your next set of goals.

Without any further ado, here are some reasons to consider retain an executive coach:

• Confidentiality: Unlike coworkers, supervisors, staff, partners, and friends, the ability to share – without worry or reservation – all of the situations a person is encountering as they build their career is significant. An executive coach provides a safe harbor for you to open up and share.
• Singular Focus on You: Executive coaches have only your achievement in mind. They don’t have to filter how your efforts might affect them or other things they may be trying to do within your current situation. Rather, their focus is on your success and what’s necessary to achieve it.
• Listen and Provoke: Executive coaches are trained to listen, not to dominate your conversation with their own interests or concerns. They can push you to probe situations and possibilities without the judgment that we so often seem to encounter when sharing with others.
• Variety And Depth Of Experiences Observed: Executive coaches have advised clients who have deployed or developed many successful strategies and, more importantly, those who have tried many unsuccessful strategies, so that they can sound alarms and provide encouragement based on real experiences and not just text book approaches.
• External Perspective: Executive coaches will know enough about your current situation to be pertinent to your situation, but they will also retain an external perspective that opens up what might be; as opposed to what will probably be.
• Discipline of Regular Discussion and Reflection: The importance of having a disciplined, steady contemplation and evolution of career strategy and skill development cannot be overstated. Not unlike a training regimen, we often have the best of intentions but let the actual discipline fall prey to other daily priorities. An executive coach will hold you accountable and maintain the discipline of regular contemplation and reflection on your career behavior and success.