Do you need a coach

Leading others wires you in a certain fashion. All those back to back meetings train us rather harshly. To be able to keep thinking on your feet and be as good as possible in problem solving, regardless the meeting context which can - and which in fact is! - changing quite severely from hour to hour. Many companies hierarchical structure makes superiors responsible for problem solving, for choices. Their average day consists of dozens of big and small decisions, ideas, hypothesis and suggestions. They ponder, they consider, they generate. They solve and decide.

Then years go by and we expected to guide others to do this, those who just joined, brighter-smarter-quicker people, better tuned to the realities of modern challenges. All they need is some storytelling, patterns , - inherited or developed, patterns - that these younger smarter people will adopt. And transform, on their own, to go further.

New generations have to find solutions for their challenges – themselves. And some of them are genius enough to do it on their own. Some – lucky enough to talk those challenges through with someone close, a friend or a foe. And some – look for an executive coach. And here is the catch: many people expect the good executive coach to be someone who has been in those battles themselves, first hand experienced, very skilled - in problem solving and decision making. But, in our example with those young leaders striving for their own solutions, there is no place for someone else’s old choices. They need someone to talk the challenges through to be able to find their own solutions.

ICF Definition of Coaching:

“Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential, which is particularly important in today’s uncertain and complex environment. Coaches honour the client as the expert in his or her life and work and believe every client is creative, resourceful and whole”.

In reality, not every leader who seeks “executive coaching” wants to do the job all by themselves. Many of you actually look for a mentor, some – for a consultant, a few – for a therapist. And here the chemistry and scoping sessions come really handy: to establish what is actually requested of your executive coach? What do you want to achieve and what do you really need - from them – for this?

Executive coaching by default is about the future. Your executive coach trusts that you do not need advice on problem solving. He is here to evoke awareness. To provide space where you can think, ponder, and devise. To – safely and constructively - challenge the beliefs, to prone the assumptions. And then – to let YOU be able to say AHA! I know how I can solve it!

I am ready to provide you with effective executive coaching. I know this “hell-kitchen” inside out, I've been there, done much of it. And now I am happy to help YOU – to do it – to win - your own way.