What are the benefits of Executive Coaching?
The act of hiring an Executive Coach allows you to invest in your greatest asset, yourself. By following the process of Executive Coaching, you can begin to enjoy a more deliberate life full of the things you used to wish for.
You will have a partner to help keep you motivated, on track and moving toward completing your goals.
The reduction in stress will enable you to live a more balanced life and allow you to make more strategic decisions at work and for yourself.
Through action learning, you will develop an understanding of yourself, identify the triggers, reactions and coping mechanisms that hold you back and prevent you from dealing with change effectively.
You will have a partner to give you an unbiased perspective and brainstorm with to develop new ways to move forward and set bigger and better goals.
What are the benefits of Executive Coaching for a business owner or member of management?
You will develop ways to deliver a better experience for your customers and motivate your employees to want to develop and execute a strong competitive marketplace for your business.
You will be able to create a stronger purpose and vision for your company and better define your role in your company’s success.
Enhance the productivity of your employees to gain innovation, morale and increased capability from your staff, and at all levels of your organization.
Discover how to capture and strengthen leadership potential in your organization to develop flexibility and endurance in your businesses operations.
Isn’t Executive Coaching some form of therapy?
Executive Coaching is not therapy. Executive Coaching is a one-on-one process between you and the Executive Coach that focuses on the future, not the past. Past events, actions and why you are the way you are will not be included in the Executive Coaching process.
Executive Coaching focuses on helping you fully utilize your capabilities, assets and talents to become more productive and valuable to your business or organization.
Executive Coaching can also be used to help you overcome knee-jerk reactions and behaviors that may be holding you back at work and preventing you from developing good working relationships. An example would include becoming defensive about a decision or not fully planning out the resources needed to complete a project.
Executive Coaching focuses on your future and helps you establish goals that are future oriented. Executive Coaching is not behavior therapy, but the process can help you understand why you have a reaction to a particular situation, discover what you can do to avoid the reaction, help you avoid getting caught-up in unhealthy patterns from other coworkers and learn why you are not living up to your fullest potential.
Will you share my progress and our session discussion with my supervisor?
Executive Coaching offers customers a confidential environment from which to openly and fully discuss topics of interest. This approach is different from consulting and skill training in two ways.
First, the one-on-one meetings and confidential environment allows you to fully discuss and identify barriers to your success, problems you may be experiencing and your thoughts and feelings about where you are now and where you want to go. This confidential environment allows you to discuss any challenge you may be facing, without the fear of being judged or any of your comments, beliefs, opinions, decisions or actions getting out to coworkers or superiors at your place of employment. This confidential environment is vital to your success because you will need to be open about all aspects of your life, both business and sometimes personal, to discover an achievable path to your goal completion.
Second, Executive Coaching is all about you! You determine what you want to accomplish and define the goals for the Executive Coaching contract. You determine the success of the Executive Coaching contract by deciding to fully participate in the process. During weekly sessions with the Executive Coach, you will receive immediate feedback about your progress and gain an outsider’s perspective from the Executive Coach.
Training programs most often work from a ridged guideline of progress and process. The goals and process of an Executive Coaching contract is generated by your participation. New skill development along the way is encouraged, but you make the decision, not the Executive Coach.
Consulting is where a specialist swoops in and unloads a mountain of advice. This can be very helpful if you are experiencing a tight deadline or dealing with a problem from which you have no prior experience. However, just like the old saying about fishing. "Show a person how to fish and you feed him for a day, teach a person how to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.”
Consulting will provide answers to get you and your team through a crisis. Consulting will most likely not show you a process to find the answer to the next problem. Consulting services could leave you just as lost as before the consultant first arrived, and unable to identify areas in your skill set that you could utilize to find the solution to a new problem.
Where will we meet and how often?
You and the Executive Coach will arrange where to meet each week. In most cases the Executive Coach can come to your office or provide your weekly session over the phone. Off-site meeting arrangements can be made and are available at an additional cost.
Can I afford Executive Coaching?
Peach Grove Executive Coaching offers customers a wide variety of coaching options. You can choose Executive Coaching plans that meet your needs varying from as little as one month to six months.
How much work will I have to do?
How successful do you want to be? You have already answered that by taking the first step and inquiring about Executive Coaching! Now the rest is up to you. The Executive Coach will track your progress and work to keep you on track to meet the goals you have established.
Each week when you meet with an Executive Coach, you will be assigned homework. Some of this homework will be due when you are scheduled to meet again with the Executive Coach, and some of the homework will be due just before your Executive Coaching contract is complete. The Executive Coach will take note of your current workload and try to balance your homework, so that it does not overwhelm you.
Remember, the whole process of Executive Coaching is to help you. Not to overwhelm you, make you feel incompetent or pressure you to make a decision. The most an Executive Coach will ask is that you try your best and utilize the resources you have available.
Will my employer cover Executive Coaching?
Please speak with your Human Resources representative or direct manager about whether your company will pay for Executive Coaching services. Most of the time, companies will allocate money or setup a specific fund each year for training. Ask if you can use these resources for Executive Coaching services. If your company does not know what Executive Coaching is or wants justification, just let us know so we can help.
Click on the “Contact Us” link and send us an email explaining your situation. Peach Grove Executive Coaching will try our best to explain the process of Executive Coaching to your employer, provide them with information about the profession of Executive Coaching and provide evidence based information on the success of Executive Coaching.
What areas do you specialize in?
Peach Grove Executive Coaching provides Executive Coaching services on a wide range of topics and areas of study. Executive Coaches do not have to have a skill set specific to your business, as you are the one providing the answers, doing the homework and finding solutions. There are times however, that having an Executive Coach with a skill set specific to your business/industry can help. Peach Grove Executive Coaching has access to a network of Executive Coaches and can refer you to an Executive Coach with a specific skill set, if you desire.
Barry K. Conley has a diverse background and is knowledgeable in many areas of communications, leadership, and business operations. This skill set comes in handy in areas of communication, marketing, strategic planning, and business processes. For more information on Barry K. Conley, please visit the “Meet the Coach” page.