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 why coaching is sought, other issues relating to the workplace and the clients' position within it often arise during the coaching process. Some of these issues may include:
Sometimes it is valuable just to be able to access an empathetic thinking space, as well as a robust but supportive ‘sounding board’. Often, the stresses and pressure at work mean there is nowhere else for these conversations to take place. This has frequently been one of the most important aspects of coaching for high-level clients and those in often-isolated leadership positions.
- Adaptability; leading in complexity and through periods of change
- Confidence - including over/under-confidence
- Increasing resilience and emotional agility; emotional regulation
- Role identity; changing roles
- Issues of authority
- 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
- 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 access an empathetic thinking space, as well as a robust but supportive ‘sounding board’. Often, the stresses and pressure at work mean there is nowhere else for these conversations to take place. This has frequently been one of the most important aspects of coaching for high-level clients and those in often-isolated leadership positions.