The leaders we coach are busy. They have big jobs, significant responsibilities, stretch objectives, and a lot of stress, so why would they make the time to work with an executive coach when they could be spending that time getting more done?
Amid the crowded calendar and intense level of activity that most leaders experience every day, working with a coach creates moments to pause, resist the bias for action, stop multi-tasking, and think. Research shows that this process of pausing and focusing helps leaders to both process information more effectively and operate more productively.
Working with a coach requires reflection—observing and examining our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In their work with their coach, a leader is typically focused on five core questions:
- Who am I—what are my strengths, development areas, hopes, fears, habits, assumptions, biases, and default perspectives?
- How am I impacting the humans and business around me?
- How do I want to be impacting the humans and business around me?
- What are the obstacles that stand between where I am today and how I want to operate?
- How do I navigate the path from where I am today to where I want to be and how I want to function?
Studies show that this process of reflection is crucial to learning and improves productivity, and yet, many leaders don’t make time to reflect unless they are working with a coach.
Working with a coach also helps leaders improve their emotional awareness and regulation and increase their positivity, all of which are essential components of good leadership and positively impact performance, relationships with colleagues, and wellbeing.
We’d love to talk with you about how we can help you and your leaders be as effective as possible.
The Boda team