Executive coaching provides one-to-one coaching to managers and other professionals. In executive coaching the emphasis is on achieving improved work performance, reaching work related goals and balancing work with personal responsibilities. Executive coaching can help you:

• Manage your staff more effectively
• Develop improved time and task management skills
• Evolve a collaborative approach to conflict
• Adopt a problem solving mindset
• Have more fun at work
• Identify your optimum work environment and create it
• Prioritise your work related goals
• Set and achieving targets of professional performance related to your field
• Pro-actively address work related stressors
• Become more confident at work
• Uncover your highest purpose in the workplace and live that out each day
• Free yourself from minutiae
• Take care of your home life so that you can give of your best at work.
• Learn to delegate and empower
• Stop tolerating the things and people that drain your energy
• Deliver excellent customer service
• Refine and accelerate personal skills development plans
• Develop your team communication skills
• Sort out your true desires from the "shoulds" and "coulds"
• Become assertive in your actions and responsible for your results
• Discover deeper meaning in each moment
• Get a grasp of organisational politics
• Identify excellence in your organisation and enable it's growth
• Find the enthusiasm you used to have
• Get your actions in line with your principles
• Be an inspirational leader
• Celebrate your achievements
• ... and lots more. For more suggestions, have a look at this list*.

As in life coaching, executive coaching is about your future performance, not your past. It emphasises not where you have been, but where you wish to go. It requires you to create and consider new possibilities in all aspects of your professional role.

This process is ideal for those managers who feel stuck, or jaded or just plain ready for a new adventure. As it is a process focused on results, it can also help you develop a real sense of achievement. Step by step, you will plan, prepare and take action on the work tasks that are meaningful to you.

If you've ever felt you're playing 'catch up' with your workload, then you need executive coaching. Coaching can help you take control ... and learn to let go of control where appropriate! Through conversation with your coach and the undertaking of specific tasks and exercises, you will become more sure of the purpose of each work day, more clear about where you are going and much more certain about who you are becoming as a result of the journey.

Enabling your professional transformation, executive coaching will provide you with a confidential, safe space in which to question yourself and tell the truth. Your coach will be your ally throughout this process, a fellow professional committed to your greatest success.

In executive coaching, your coach may or may not have expertise in your profession. The holding of specialist knowledge or skills is not necessary as the process of coaching aims to empower you to build your own skills and knowledge resources. This ensures you remain independent of the coach and can, when ready, move beyond the coaching relationship.

Unlike some other professional development routes, executive coaching does not hold you against any template of a 'super leader'. Nor does it necessarily rely on a framework of competencies or pre-measured standards. Your coach will not evaluate you as part of an appraisal process nor judge you against your peers. Your coach will celebrate who you are now, wherever you are in your professional growth, because she realises you already have what it takes to be your very best.

Wise Caterpillar offers to create and deliver an executive coaching package based specifically on your individual needs and desires. Just contact us to arrange an initial complementary discussion on how we can meet your wishes.

If you are part of an organisation that wants to adopt a coaching skillset as part of the management toolkit, then you may also wish to call us now on 0044 (0)115 9566159 or contact us via the Wise Caterpillar Feedback Form about Wise Caterpillar Corporate Coaching Services. These services include delivering courses and facilitating both personal and group coaching processes with the aim of enhancing organisational development and building a positive workplace culture.

Outcomes of Coaching in Organisations.

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"'Very Satisfactory' This was the way clients most frequently rated the overall effectiveness of their coaching experience on a 5-point scale, where 4 was very satisfactory. The positive image of executive coaching in business media and the continued growth of the practice are supported by client experience"

Organizational Dynamics

"Most leaders like executive coaching because: they receive direct one-on-one assistance from someone they respect; they don't have to leave their offices; it fits their timeframes and schedules; they can see fast results, if they're dedicated"

Training & Development

"The present research demonstrated the dramatic effects of one-on-one executive coaching as a transfer of training tool."

Public Personnel Management

"Coaches are being used by individuals who are either tired of little or no guidance on the job, or want to attain a clear focus on how to shape their goals and what method to use to attain them...For companies who fall prey to the tight labor market, hiring coaches helps ensure they keep motivated employees who concentrate on increasing their job performance and resolving time management constraints."

Karine Michael at Triangle Business Journal

"The hottest thing in management today is the executive coach."

Fortune

"The coaching relationship also has a unique structure. After an initial assessment of the client's situation, the coach and client set specific goals for the client. In each subsequent meeting with the client, the coach determines what goals have been met and why other goals were not. Different set of goals is agreed upon for the following meeting. The coach prods the client to keep to the action plan"

The Business Journal

"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources"

Harvard Business Review

"It just makes good business sense... The return on investment in a coaching or mentoring initiative is something in the order of six-to-one pay back. I’ll take six bucks on a dollar investment anytime."

W. McFarlane of PriceWaterhouseCoopers in CA Magazine.

"A coach can serve as a facilitator between the board and its leadership. 'The coach can help board members work collaboratively,' says Carl Kaestner, of Robert Hargrove Consulting. 'They can serve as a thinking partner for the CEO... they become an extraordinary combination, brokers able to create extraordinary relationships.'"

Ralph Ward at Inc.com