How Can A Professional Coach Benefit Me?

It is not unusual for people ask, “Exactly how can an executive coach benefit me?”.

 

Whether your employer has recommended you work with an executive coach or you recognize the general benefits for expanding your professional skill set, working with a coach is an opportunity to imagine and envision clear possibilities, to enhance and define what you already do well, and build upon the strengths you may be unaware you possess.

 

First, coaching is an opportunity to examine and see yourself clearly. When a leader has gained a more accurate level of self-awareness, research shows that self-awareness is strong predictor of their effectiveness when managing others and overall profitability. As a professional coach, I believe it’s essential that I work with my clients towards gaining a true sense of who they are and how they are perceived and received by others. Often, we have good and wise intentions as leaders but how we present our best self to others is essential to effective leadership.

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Once we’ve gained a clearer sense of our self, we can then turn our focus toward how we see others around us with more clarity. Aside from the executive having good intentions, if they are unable to recognize and support the capabilities and performance of others they will only be as good as those who follow. When working with a coach, you will soon realize that the same method used to gain an accurate awareness of who you are will aid in your assessment of others.