Executive and Professional Coaching
The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
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Executive/Professional Coaching
Executive coaching and professional coaching are both about guiding individuals toward achieving their goals, but they differ in their focus and scope. Executive coaching typically targets senior leaders and focuses on improving leadership skills and organizational performance. Professional coaching, on the other hand, is more broadly applicable and can help individuals with career development, skill enhancement, and personal growth within their professional context.
Executive Coaching
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Focus:
Improving leadership effectiveness, self-awareness, and organizational performance. -
Target:
Senior executives, managers, and leaders within an organization. This can involve current or potential leaders. -
Purpose:
To help executives develop their leadership skills, build stronger teams, and make more effective decisions. -
Benefits:
Enhanced organizational performance, and better decision-making with more effective outcomes. Increased self-awareness, improved relationships with employees.
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Overview:
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Executive coaching is a customized service. The coaches will assess the needs and culture of your company, then proceed accordingly.
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The GROW method stands for: Goal, Reality, Options or Obstacles, and Will or Way forward.
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You and your team members will work on:
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Personal development. An executive coach will help employees identify and utilize their strengths. Identify their or fears or weaknesses so they can emerge as business professionals.
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Goal creation
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Executive coaching will help clients formulate and achieve actionable goals.
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Leadership enhancement
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Improving better relationships between leaders and employees.
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Coaches help your management team thrive.
Professional Coaching
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Focus:
Supporting individuals in achieving their professional goals, whether it's career advancement, skill development, or personal growth. -
Target:
Professionals at all levels and in various industries. -
Purpose:
To help individuals identify their strengths, develop their skills, and achieve their career aspirations. -
Benefits:
Increased confidence, enhanced decision-making, improved communication, and a greater sense of purpose.
The Similarity
The Coaching methodologies behind Business and Executive Coaching are very different, but the goal of both remains the same. This goal is to help clients identify the people, processes, and leaders that directly impact the company's bottom line the most. Once identified, we will explore, discuss, and decide on an action plan to improve those people, processes, and leaders. Whether you're a small business owner or the leader of a large organization, the need for personal or strategic business development is inevitable in order to maximize your company's potential.
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The Difference: Business Coaching vs Executive Coaching
Business Coaching
A Business Coach specifically focuses on business-related operations that impact a company's performance the most. We will work with clients on a variety of goals such as; business strategy, improving company processes, marketing and sales, overall company morale, and any other areas that directly impact the company's success as a whole.
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Executive Coaching
An Executive Coach works with key leaders of a company that impact the people and processes that make a company successful. The key difference is Executive Coaches work directly with Executives, Managers, and Leaders in their personal development exclusively. We recognize this a more indirect approach to improving a business, but there is research and case
studies that recognized personal development of Executives, Managers, and Leader's oftentimes results in improved company performance. Studies
show a direct correlation between how Executives, Managers, and Leaders conduct themselves at work and how they interface with employees to how well the employee's perform their individual jobs.
At SOAR, we believe that everyone needs a Coach from time to time. Having a Coach will help ensure you're addressing the fundamentals of sound business practices, that you haven't development any blindspots that are keeping you from performing at your highest potential, and that all employees are in sync with the people, processes, and leaders that make a company successful.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails
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