Executive Coaching Or Life Coaching? Finding The Right Fit For You
As the fog of the pandemic lifts, many people are re-evaluating their careers and lifestyles and seeking self-transformation to enhance the quality of their work and personal lives.
While some are focussing on how to deliver results with less stress or in difficult situations, others are longing to up-level professionally and become a more empowered leader within their organisation.
But can you have a high-pressure role with big responsibilities and feel well? Many Executives and CEOs don’t believe this is possible. But I believe it is. And this is where coaching comes in.
In this article, I will explore the benefits of executive and life coaching to help you better understand the benefits.
Why work with a coach?
Whether it's reducing stress, advancing professionally, or fostering a well-being culture, the question arises: should I engage in some form of coaching?
Most of us know what we should be doing to feel well, but we don’t do it. Why? Because 95% of our thoughts, feelings and actions are subconscious.
Coaching is a way to uncover those subconscious patterns which no longer serve us by working on the intangible more implicit topics like emotions, relationships, human behaviour, untapped potential and much more.
Executive coaching: Delivering business results
Executive coaching is ideal if you are a senior executive seeking rapid and high-impact results. Executive coaching focuses on delivering business results. It empowers leaders to reach their maximum potential through a thought-provoking and creative partnership.
For me, the aim is to provide a safe space for senior leaders who are often alone with high stake issues and have nowhere to go to explore their thoughts, bounce ideas, and solve problems they only deal with at work.
By delving into subconscious patterns and implicit topics, executive coaching helps uncover obstacles that hinder growth. It provides a safe space for senior leaders to explore their thoughts, bounce ideas, and solve unique work-related challenges.
Here are some of the benefits of executive coaching:
1. Understanding your personality type: Discovering strengths and weaknesses
Gain self-awareness by identifying blind spots, improving communication, learning about conflict styles and understanding your impact on others. It’s also important to identify strengths and weaknesses that are keeping you from reaching your short- and long-term goals. By doing this, you can become more self-aware, make better choices for yourself, and become a more conscious leader. I work with The Process Communication Model which uncovers your predictable stress sequence. When we become aware of this, we can start to build self-awareness around it, to catch ourselves when this is not serving our health, relationships or our results.
2. Receiving unbiased feedback
Coaches offer honest feedback without biases or hidden agendas. They provide fresh perspectives on leadership styles and help provide solution-based approaches designed to help you reach your goals. That is where the magic happens when the coach mirrors back your own beliefs for you to recognise for yourself. These beliefs will be the ones which hold you back. It is only when you see them for yourself that you can then take steps to change them. This type of radical constructive feedback will rarely reach you in any other way, especially when you are a senior leader.
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