Executive Coaching - Need of the hour
Executives’ roles have become very demanding and require them to demonstrate sheer alacrity, dexterity and versatility in all facets of their responsibilities, be it people management, planning, strategy development, business development or turning their team into a high performing unit. In order to take the organization to the next level of growth, they have to be a strong visionary and extremely influential in driving business.
Together with this, these Executives should have exceptional problem solving skills; handle stress and pressure with ease; identify simple solutions to complex problems; be persuasive; be open to constructive feedback and be a people’s manager. These traits cannot be imbibed overnight. It has to be nurtured through learning, practice, reflection, shadowing from experts, training and most important of all, coaching.
Most of the new managers today face difficulties in one or the other characteristics not because they lack capability but because the roles have become more ambitious. Sometimes, even senior management get stuck with some goals and take a longer time seeking solutions, resulting in competitors outshining them. In many cases, senior management miss the en masse learning events essential for polishing their skills.
Therefore, coaching is the best way to unleash one’s potential by evolving one’s competence, clarity, focus, commitment, accountability, ownership, proficiency, creativity and decision making capability. With executive coaches, one can gain self-awareness to ingest all traits with minimum resources, time and energy. It is one of the most effective and proficient ways to establish leaders with promising ingenuity and deftness.
Executive coaches challenge the current thoughts and assumptions to encourage executives think beyond convention thereby bringing out thought provoking and novel results from their minds. They help to make a 360 degree assessment of the subject at hand. One should not miss out an opportunity to become a revolutionary leader and take up coaching whenever required.