Executive coaching can be effective in addressing many areas of challenge or concern in the workplace, as well as promoting productivity and performance enhancement where there are no particular current difficulties. While Marion will work alongside her client to identify the reasons that bring the client to coaching early on, other issues relating to the workplace and the client’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.
- Developing presence; increasing impact and influence
- Adaptability; leading in complexity and through change
- Confidence - including over/under-confidence
- 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
- Empathetic leadership; role-modelling leadership
- Creating a coaching culture; self-coaching
- Developing the ability to listen
- Self-awareness and self-observation
- Managing teams
- Conflict management
- Difficult or complex team dynamics
- Building effective and healthy work relationships
- Staying in/leaving the workplace dilemmas
- Managing transitions between employments or new roles
- Returning to work after a break
- Resolving stressful situations
- Increasing resilience
- 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.