Executive coaching can be effective in addressing many areas of challenge or concern in the workplace, as well as enhancing productivity and performance where there are no particular current difficulties. While Marion will work alongside her clients in the early stages to identify the reasons around coaching being sought, other issues relating to the workplace and the client’s/team's position within it often arise during the coaching process. Some of these issues may include:
Sometimes it is valuable just to be able to offer a thinking space, a ‘sounding board’, when stresses and pressure at work mean there is nowhere else to hold the reflective conversations that coaching allows. This has often been one of the most valuable aspects of coaching for high-level clients and something they cannot find elsewhere.
- Adaptability; leading in complexity and through change
- Confidence - including over/under-confidence
- Increasing resilience and emotional agility; emotional management
- Role uncertainty and identity
- Alignment/misalignment of personal and professional identities
- Working with introversion/extroversion and understanding personality and characteristics
- Women in the workplace and in/moving into leadership
- Leadership skills and development
- Close working relationships, particularly in key positions
- Empathetic leadership; role-modelling leadership
- Developing presence; increasing impact and influence
- Creating a coaching culture; self-coaching
- Building organisational values
- Understanding and thriving within the workplace system
- Developing the ability to listen and hear
- Self-awareness and self-observation
- Managing teams
- Communication and conflict
- Difficult or complex group dynamics
- Building effective and healthy working relationships
- Staying in/leaving the workplace dilemmas
- Managing transitions between employments or new roles
- Returning to work after a break
- Resolving stressful situations
- Fulfilling potential; work fulfilment
- Setting and achieving realistic goals
- Rediscovering motivation
- Moving past impasses.
Sometimes it is valuable just to be able to offer a thinking space, a ‘sounding board’, when stresses and pressure at work mean there is nowhere else to hold the reflective conversations that coaching allows. This has often been one of the most valuable aspects of coaching for high-level clients and something they cannot find elsewhere.