Executive Coaching to Enhance Leadership Effectiveness

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Leaders’ effectiveness can be enhanced by effective executive coaching.

Executive coaching facilitates leaders to clarify what they want to achieve and to identify and work on the key underlying areas that will enable them enjoy enhanced leadership effectiveness and success.  These underlying areas vary from leader to leader and the one to one nature of executive coaching helps us to identify the areas that will make the most difference to the particular leader we are working with.

For example, in some cases increased levels of self confidence will enable a leader to operate significantly more effectively.  In other cases, the development of skills to manage stress or conflict make the most difference to leadership performance.

Leadership performance and effectiveness is enhanced in many ways through executive coaching. Outcomes from an executive coaching programme can include:

• An increased understanding of leadership strengths and gaps (including behavioural gaps) and an increased ability to manage the gaps.
• Development of a clear vision of where the leader wants to be, how they will achieve that and setting clear objectives and success measures to work with.
• An opportunity to step back from the detail and see the big picture.  Through executive coaching leaders develop enhanced ability to think more broadly and strategically about what will enable their success and that of their team and the business in the medium to long term.

To learn more about how executive coaching may benefit you, visit Stepshift’s executive coaching page or return to the blog categories page.