Executive Coaching

Many business leaders and entrepreneurs tout the benefits of executive coaching. In a rapidly changing digital era, leaders must evolve to deliver a new experience for customers and employees alike. Executive coaching improves organizational effectiveness to drive profitability, increase revenue growth and improve employee engagement. Through a series of straight-forward strategies designed to clarify, expand, and articulate the leader's vision, executive coaching builds self-awareness and interpersonal skills, while holding the individual accountable for results. Self-awareness is a catalyst for growth, and empathy helps leaders tap into intrinsic motivations and enhance interactions with both colleagues and subordinates. 

According to research by Raconteur, CEOs describe the following as the biggest, unexpected challenges in their roles:

• Driving cultural change - 50%
• Finding time for myself and reflection - 48%
• Developing my senior leadership team - 47%
• Managing the impact on my personal life - 35%
• Maintaining my physical health - 31%
• Managing my stress levels - 20%

To deal with the many stresses and challenges of the position, many CEOs are turning to coaching. According to the American Management Association, organizations that use coaching reported stronger market performance. A global survey of coaching clients by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Association Resource Center concluded that the mean ROI for companies investing in coaching was seven times that of the initial investment. A quarter of the companies in the survey reported an ROI of 10 to 49 times investment. 

Research by the University of Amsterdam shows that workplace coaching improves individual and team performance, well-being, coping, work attitudes and goal-directed self-regulation. Executive coaching helps leaders to build strong relationships with their teams that enables the entire organization to move forward. Organizations that invest in a strong coaching culture boost employee engagement by 12% and productivity by 13%. The benefits can be seen over time in terms of innovation, revenue, and customer satisfaction.