Executive coaching is a process designed to improve an individual’s chances of success in the workplace through a series of interactions with a trained professional. (Some mistakenly label coaching as corrective, some kind of effort to “fix” an individual.)
Coaching focuses on skills (e.g. communications, innovativeness, and negotiations), attitudes(e.g. optimism, inclusiveness and respectfulness) and attributes (e.g. character, judgment and resilience). Coaching typically does not emphasize technical or business disciplines; see mentoring. However, coaching often does focus to some degree on the skills, attitudes and attributes required to succeed in a particular organization’s culture (see also Culture Change). The trained professional serving as the executive coach keeps confidential the conversations with the coachee (unless something extreme or dangerous comes to light). This boundary helps ensure that the coachee can freely discuss concerns, relationships, incidents or decisions with the executive coach. |
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