Using Your Executive Coach

Building on the Coaching Relationship

You enter into a coaching relationship to help you improve your managerial performance and leadership effectiveness. Past success in learning new skills and putting them into action doesn’t guarantee that you can easily accomplish the goals you and your coach have agreed upon. In fact, some of the attitudes and habits that have enabled you to achieve your level of professional success may actually hinder your progress when you work with a coach.

For example, if you’ve built success because of your takecharge attitude and your willingness to take risks without full consensus of a group, then you may have to ...