Should I hire an executive coach?

When you’re leading at the highest levels of an organization, it can feel very isolating.

The weight of every decision falls on you, the accountability stops with you, and although the rewards belong to you, so do the risks.

Life is usually so busy that its hard to find any time to think, nonetheless reflect on what you need.

Coaching can be an effective and impactful way to get all of your thoughts and feelings out of your head and into a plan that will help you keep moving in the direction you want to go.

Most people wait until their check engine light has been on for too long before hiring a coach, but if you can hire a coach before the big business and life changes, you will have a partner to help you feel sturdy through the storm.

Coaching and consulting are different: consulting is being hired for what you know. People need your expertise and advice on something.

Coaching is listening. It’s asking great and curious questions that get your client thinking in new ways about their life and business. Coaching assumes you are the most knowledgeable person about your life; you simply needed a skilled person to help pull it out of you and put it into a plan of action with good accountability.

If you are going to hire a coach, chemistry matching is important. You will need to be able to trust this person with your feelings and thoughts about some things that are deeply personal.

Coaching is not the same as therapy however. Both are focused on creating long term and sustainable behavioral changes, but while therapy is focused on healing mental illness or traumas and events from the past, coaching is about exploring your feelings, beliefs and behavioral tendencies in a way that is focused on forward movement and action. Many times, people need a combination of coaching and therapy, and we have a great referral network for clients who require a full spectrum solution. If you want to know more about our coaching approach, check out our video on this topic.