Executive Coaching
What is coaching?
International Coaching Federation, defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching is a client-driven process. The coach’s responsibility is to:
• Discover, clarify and align with what the client wants to achieve
• Encourage client self-discovery
• Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies
• Hold the client responsible and accountable
The coaching process helps clients improve their outlook on work and life, while improving their leadership skills and unlocking their potential.
Το Executive Coaching επικεντρώνεται στο στέλεχος μιας επιχείρησης, με στόχο να το βοηθήσει να αναπτύξει όλες εκείνες τις δεξιότητες που χρειάζεται, αυτή η διαδικασία αλλαγής θα ωφελήσει τον ίδιο αλλά και ολόκληρη την επιχείρηση. Το Executive Coaching είναι μια διεργασία, περιλαμβάνει μια μακροπρόθεσμη ατομική επαγγελματική σχέση μεταξύ του Coach και του στελέχους.
Οι στόχοι του executive coaching είναι οι εξής:
• Μεγιστοποίηση της ατομικής απόδοσης του στελέχους προσωπικά και επαγγελματικά.
• Ενίσχυση ηγετικών δεξιοτήτων και δεξιοτήτων management.
• Εντοπισμός αδυναμιών και ελαχιστοποίηση/εξάλειψή τους.
• Δίνει στα στελέχη πρακτικά εργαλεία για να επιτύχουν τους σκοπούς του οργανισμού και τους προσωπικούς τους στόχους.
Το Executive Coaching είναι επικεντρωμένο στο άτομο. Από το Executive Coaching ωφελούνται τα υψηλόβαθμα στελέχη διότι μέσω της διαδικασίας Coaching βελτιώνεται η ποιότητα της ηγεσίας, και μέσω αυτής τα αποτελέσματα της επιχείρησης. Ωστόσο, δεν είναι μόνο τα κορυφαία στελέχη της ηγεσίας που μπορούν να επωφεληθούν από το Executive Coaching. Οι ηγέτες χαμηλότερου επιπέδου, όπως οι διευθυντές τμημάτων επίσης μπορούν επίσης να μεγιστοποιήσουν την απόδοσή τους μέσω αυτής της διαδικασίας.
Executive coaching is a professional relationship between a trained coach and a client (who may be an individual or a group) with the goal to enhance the client’s leadership or management performance and development. Through a process of inquiry, dialogue, and other tools, the coach serves as a thought partner to help the client examine and develop his or her decision-making, experiment with new ways of thinking and being, and commit to action steps that help achieve the client’s goals. (Source: Jeffrey E. Auerbach, Ph.D., MCC)
“Coaching is not telling people what to do; it’s giving them a chance to examine what they are doing in light of their intentions.”
(Source: James Flaherty “Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others”)
“A masterful coach is a vision builder and value shaper… Who enters into the learning system of a person, business, or social institution with the intent of improving it so as to impact people’s ability to perform.”
(Source: Robert Hargrove in “Masterful Coaching” page 17.)
“Executive Coaching is a company-sponsored perk for top high potential employees. It is a customized and holistic development process that provides deep behavioral insights intended to accelerate an executive’s business results and effectiveness as a leader. This coaching is based on a collaborative relationship among the executive, his/her boss, his/her human resources manager, and an executive coach.”
(Source: Karol Wasylyshyn)
“Executive coaching is defined as a helping relationship formed between a client who has managerial authority and responsibility in an organization and a consultant who uses a wide variety of behavioral techniques and methods to assist the client achieve a mutually identified set of goals to improve his or her professional performance and personal satisfaction and consequently to improve the effectiveness of the client’s organization within a formally defined coaching agreement.”
(Source: Richard R Kilburg in Executive Coaching: Developing Managerial Wisdom in a World of Chaos)
“The essence of executive coaching is helping leaders get unstuck from their dilemmas and assisting them to transfer their learning into results for the organization.”
(Mary Beth O’Neill “Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart”)
