Working with businesses and organisations

Professional/Executive Coaching

Professional/executive coaching can take two forms; i) where an individual comes to a coach for advice on work-related issues, and ii) where a company employs a professional to coach its employees in-house. In both cases, the range of issues that a coach might address would be similar.

Regardless of the setting, the coach is working with a particular individual, so the approach to coaching remains the same. The emphasis is likely to be focused on work-related issues, but even so, the individual's personality, experiences and approach to life will play a big role in how they are performing at work and how they feel about their work life. Obviously, when a company is paying for executive coaching, the contract will address expectations about client/coach confidentiality, the level of feedback to senior management.

Effective executive coaching ideally should facilitate improvements for the individuals involved and, where relevant, the companies that employ them. Through thoughtful, provocative coaching, people can learn a lot about themselves which can bring about positive change that benefits the individual in their personal and work life.