Why Do Executive or Leadership Coaching?
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The current challenge for many executives is time management and strategic focus.
Every day, their calendars are filled with back to back meetings and project deadlines. Along with a desk covered with project reports, meeting notes, and financial accounts to monitor, many are also swamped with daily e-mails, voice mails and urgent phone calls.
The result?
Being over scheduled and overloaded has become a normal way of life. While delegation helps, many executives currently find their work life so full that there is little time for reflection, and strategic thinking. Reactive problem solving consumes their time and attention. Proactive clarity and strategic action are taking a back burner to increased market pressures to improve.
I believe that time management and strategic focus are the new currency for leaders. When what is urgent becomes the dominant focus in our work and our lives, what is important gets lost, and many times forgotten.
One solution to these problems is regular executive and leadership coaching. When people in leadership positions create "structured unstructured time," a concept first defined by John Donahoe, the worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, they create the capacity to refocus on the strategic and the important.
With the current and emerging economic challenges, the need to capitalize on the opportunities within the marketplace, plus the complexities of strategic change, executives need regular decompression time to sort out the important from the urgent and the unimportant. They need to think out loud and to have time to share their thoughts and struggles.
By regularly meeting with an executive and leadership coach, individuals can seek out neutral, but informed perspective. The results are better coping strategies, increased strategic clarity, and improved organizational alignment plus a structured opportunity to unwind, reflect, and regain positional perspective.
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