Chapter 22:What Is Executive Coaching?
As long as there have been good listeners and trusted advisors in the executive suite, there have been executive coaches. Not all executive coaches are trained, paid, or even know they’re coaches, for that matter. Indeed, when coaching is done well, it looks more like a good friend listening and asking probing questions and less like a football coach barking orders — in fact, the very opposite. So, the term coaching, while widely used, is a bit misleading. We should be called executive facilitators … but that just doesn’t have any panache. So, executive coach it remains.
The coaching process begins when the client realizes that he or she wants help getting to the next level of performance. Often, the organization ...
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