12 Reasons Why Executives Choose to Work with Executive Coaches

Here are twelve reasons executives chose to work with an executive coach and how executive coaching benefits the various facets of their work and lives.

1. Executive Coaching is for individuals with an overreaching need and willingness to grow. Executives seeking the services of an executive coach have a need and willingness to change and grow on a professional as well as personal level. Executive coaching (with a competent executive coach) speeds up the process and helps the executive achieve results in a shorter span of time.
2. Executive Coaching helps executives become more attuned to their behaviors and skills. Self-awareness is not about ‘what should be’ -it’s about ‘what is.’ Smart executives place a high priority on becoming self-aware and realize that executive coaches can help them master this skill. Moreover, executive coaching uses experiential and reflective processes to increase the awareness of the executive, so that experience is useful.
3. Executive coaching helps executives achieve personal mastery: This also has to do with becoming more self-aware as discussed above. The fact that today’s leaders and executives have to juggle through a myriad of issues, including finances, technology, management, team and leadership, human resources, etc… when it is not humanly possible for one single person to be adept at each of these issues, brings about a need for achieving personal mastery. Executive coaching makes it easy for executives to gain personal mastery. Through personal mastery, an executive coach is able to help these executives recognize what they excel at and what can be passed onto the team –leading to better results.
4. Executive coaching helps executives use their mistakes to learn. Leaders and peak performing executives view mistakes in a positive light and learn from them. It is these executives that welcome feedback from their executive coaches in order to grow. Executive coaching helps the executive recognize this to further their learning and performance.
5. Executive coaching helps executives review and learn from personal experiences. Through self-reflection, great leaders and peak performing executives are able to learn and grow. In order to be successful, executives need to look back at personal experiences and learn from them. Executive coaching plays a vital role here as executive coaches know how to spark the process of self-reflection so the executives can use the valuable learning, which accrues from this process and apply it to their lives.
6. Executive coaching helps executives recognize and overcome internal hindrances to achieving goals. Many executives are not aware of or may simply choose to ignore their blind spots. This can be rather dangerous, especially for executives who are on the top. This is where executive coaching plays a vital role. An executive coach is gifted with the unique ability to shine the mirror on these areas so the executives are not only able to recognize and gain an awareness of the problem, but also take the necessary steps to eliminate the same.
7. Executive coaching helps executives balance the demands of task orientation with people orientation. High performing executives need to maintain focus on tasks, while keeping up a people focus to balance the two. Executive coaches play a critical role in this area.
8. Executive coaching helps executives identify pertinent learning goals. It is critical that in order to be successful in today’s competitive business environment, leaders constantly sharpen the saw. Executive coaching helps an executive effectively recognize and select key learning goals and objectives, which are beneficial to executives as well as their organizations. As soon as these goals and objectives are set by their executive coaches, these executives can begin enjoying the journey, which is leveraged and exciting.
9. Executive coaching helps executives spot and employ existing assets to obtain strategic objectives. Executive coaching effectively helps the executive appreciate and identify the assets, which exist within the organization. In this manner, executive coaches help their clients successfully reach organizational objectives.
10. Executive coaching helps executives maintain a healthy work-life balance. In today’s highly competitive and stressful environment, it can be a real challenge to maintain a healthy life-work balance. Executive coaching keeps the various facets of an executive in mind to help them maintain proper balance in all areas of their lives.
11. Executive coaches encourage sharing coaching tools with colleagues and others within the organization. The executive coaching process expands a person’s horizons by opening him up to new perspectives, ideas and ways of thinking. Executive coaching also brings in new tools, etc., which can be shared with colleagues throughout the organization.
12. Executive coaching helps executives develop a career and life game plan. Executive coaching positions executives for success as their executive coaches help them devise a strategic game plan for their careers.

Executive coaching is a process –one that evolves over time. The benefits of executive coaching are enormous if you are ready to approach it with an open mind and enjoy the process.

Interested in finding out more about becoming a coach?  Call 410-374-3536 or email me today to schedule an informational call.  Find out more about Executive Coaching here.

ActionCOACH Wins International Award

More than 35,000 votes were cast in the first People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies, from 28 July through 9 September, and ActionCOACH won the 2011 Business Services Category!

This worldwide public vote was conducted as part of The 8^th Annual International Business Awards, the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business.

Nicknamed the Stevie® for the Greek word “crowned,” the awards will be presented to honorees at the IBA awards banquet on Tuesday, 11 October in the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  Tickets for the event are now on sale.

All organizations honored in the Company/Organization awards categories of this year’s International Business Awards were eligible to be included in voting for the people’s choice awards, which was open to the public for more than five weeks this summer.

What is “Edutainment” and “Co-Opetition?” Part of the ActionCOACH Mission…

The Vision We Support

“World Abundance through Business Re-Education”

We strive to support this vision by doing a number of things:

• We will always work in “co-opetition” with all those who believe they are in competition with us
• We will practice “edutainment,” educating ourselves, our clients and those we work with, while we entertain them and create a fun learning environment
• We will employ world-class marketing and business development techniques to educate our clients

ActionCOACH is a team of committed, positive and successful people who are always striving to be balanced, integral and honest. We will work within our 14 Points of Culture to make sure that everyone who touches, or is touched by the ActionCOACH team, will benefit greatly and in some way move closer to becoming the person they want to be or achieve the goals they want to achieve.

To learn more, email me to schedule a 30 minute conversation.

 

Master Mentor Series Interview with Les Brown

As a renowned professional speaker, personal development coach, author and former television personality, Les Brown has risen to national and international prominence by capturing audiences with electrifying speeches…

In the Master Mentor Series, ActionCOACH founder and CEO Brad Sugars talks with Les about his amazing success.

Download the video here.

ActionCOACH Wins Stevie Award

ActionCOACH has taken its place alongside such household names as Apple, Constant Contact, Overstock.com, Whole Foods Market, Cisco and Groupon as winner of this year’s Stevie for Best Overall Company in the Business Services category

This is the third straight year ActionCOACH was honored as a finalist and the second time the company has won the award, having taken home the trophy in 2007 as well.

One of the longest tenured ActionCOACH Master Licensees in the United States, Don Schin, attended the Awards Dinner and accepted the award for ActionCOACH.

“Receiving this award on behalf of ActionCOACH is a great honor for me,” Schin said, “This award has special meaning for me because I’ve been part of the ActionCOACH system for so long. I’ve seen incredible growth in more than a decade as an ActionCOACH and I know, with our great team, we will continue to grow and get better.”

ActionCOACH is the world’s leader in business and executive coaching. When Brad Sugars, Chairman and Founder, started the company in 1993, the concept of business coaching was still in its infancy. By franchising the company in 1997, Sugars helped business coaching become more mainstream turning it into the second fastest growing category behind Information Technology.  ActionCOACH specializes in coaching small to medium sized businesses as well as executive teams and group coaching.

“Anytime you win an award it’s an honor,” ActionCOACH USA and Canada CEO Jodie Shaw said, “But winning Best Overall Company means our company is the best of the best, not just in our field or specialty, but as a business as a whole.”

The Stevies, or American Business Awards, were created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and business people worldwide.  Beginning with The American Business Awards in 2002, their mission is to raise the profile of exemplary organizations and individuals among the press, the business community and the general public.

ActionCOACH is the world’s number one business coaching and executive coaching firm, with more than 1,000 offices in 32 countries. To learn more, go to actioncoach.com.

How Does Networking Work for You?

If you use networking as a part of your marketing strategy, you should be thinking about some key points.

* Who do you want to connect with? Who do you want to connect with? and are you likely to connect with them in some way by networking?

* Who do they want to connect with, and how and where do they make connections? There are many different types of networking. For instance, you’re unlikely to find the CEO of a $100 MM company at a leads group, but you may find someone that is connected to that CEO.

  * What’s your networking “budget”? By that I mean, what is your plan for how, how often, and where you will commit your networking resources? There are enough opportunities that you could use all of your time networking, but is that your best strategy?

* The flip side is that a plan also means consistency. Can you build productive relationships by showing up only on a sporadic basis for the groups and events you commit to?

* The Golden Rule of Networking. How do you want to be treated while networking? How much more fun is a networking event when someone takes an active interest in you? So guess how they feel when you take an active interest in them?

* When you are networking, do you have SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-Oriented, Time-frame related) goals? Or do you just waltz in without thinking about what you really want to achieve?

* What is it that makes you captivating to someone else? Actively listening to them. Remember this acronym: W.A.I.T. (Why Am I Talking?) Do more listening than telling.

   * Building relationships requires building trust. At a networking event, building trust means just that – you build it, you don’t jump into it. Earn the right to more of the other person’s time by being worthy of their trust.

* Find common ground. Sometimes you can establish common ground based on a single shared interest. How much effort to you put in to having interests outside of your profession that might help you find common ground quickly with fellow networkers?

   * What if your primary purpose was to help other people get connected to people you know that could help them?  If you believe like I do that an active interest in helping others will be “repaid”, this is the way to do it.

  * Follow up, follow up, and follow up. By the way, did I mention following up? The excitement of an opportunity identified at a networking event wears off very quickly in the absence of follow up. Create a system for following up within 24 hours and see how your results improve.

* Networking at the Speed of Light: Think social media is a fad? Think again. If you don’t have a social media strategy, create one. While you’re sitting there convincing yourself that it won’t work for you, millions of people are out there making it work for them.

Do you want to make networking work for you? Then make it work for others.

 

This post was originally written by Gary Stokes, a business coach in the MidAtlantic team.

I am an ActionCOACH

With the help of more than 50 ActionCOACH business coaches from around the world, including one from the MidAtlantic team, this video “I am an ActionCOACH” describes the significant impact our coaches have on the businesses they work with and the camaraderie of the ActionCOACH community.

Watch this video to hear how our coaches generated additional revenue for their clients and what an ActionCOACH business coach is not.

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