What IS an Executive Performance Coach?
What does an executive performance coach really do?
People hire physical trainers for a number of reasons: perhaps to lose weight, build muscle, gain overall health, rehabilitate from an injury, train for a specific event, such as a triathlon, or work on a specific skill (as a professional athlete would).
Great leaders in business hire executive performance coaches, like me, to enhance their performance in the business world.
Similar to the trainer you work with at the Club or at home, an executive performance coach works with you for a number of things: perhaps to become a stronger persuasive communicator, to improve your leadership skills, increase your emotional intelligence, resolve workplace issues, improve your team’s productivity and profit, or work through a specific event, such as a merger or acquisition, a succession plan.
Just as your physical trainer has a number of different exercise tools you will work with, (for instance, weights, Medicine Balls, resistance bands, Balance balls), a good executive performance coach will have tools. They will have a complete set of validated assessments, reports, and metrics specific to what you need and want to work on.
When should you hire a coach?
Let’s use the physical trainer as an example again. One day you wake up, you can’t get your pants zipped up, and you say “That’s it! I’m hiring a trainer because I’m out of shape!” Others hire a trainer when they are already in good shape, and want to take their health and fitness to the next level.
Performance coaching is the same. A leader may have a problem in the company and says “That’s it! I’m hiring a coach” Others are more proactive and simply choose to have a coach on board, because they know that as business evolves, issues come up, and they need to stay at the top of their game throughout it all. They have to juggle work and family, leverage their time, resolve conflict, think strategically, position themselves to get to the next level, they have to example great leadership, and they want to grow their department, team, company, or organization and still be a human being at the same time.
Hiring a physical trainer or an executive coach is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of strength and commitment. I have had both physical trainer and performance coach(es) on board for about 20 years now, and wouldn’t want to be without either one.
To see if you qualify for a complimentary private executive coaching session, simply email me at julia@mentaliron.com and let me know. If you qualify, you will experience a session without any pressure or “strings attached”.
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