Almost all the blue chip companies have a provision for executive coaching for their employees at almost all levels. It is proven that objective-driven, one-on-one interaction, between the coach and the employee, in the right circumstances, can help the employees gain the professional focus that no other form of organizational support can ever achieve. In the initial stages when this form of life coaching was introduced, it was used mainly as a means to correct under performance in a few employees. However, in today’s times of competition and stress, coaching is important for all the recruits; especially those who have the potential of becoming future organizational leaders.
The main purpose of executive coaching is to develop leaders within the deserving people and prepare them for the responsibilities to come; while maintaining their current level of day-to-day responsibilities. The coach provides the additional push which is required to enable an employee to attain better and quicker results and walk up the corporate ladder as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The most crucial part of this type of life coaching is the feedback. As the employee begins to grow constantly in the organization, the importance of feedback increases. However, the feedback which is provided by the company is far too irregular and insufficient to help the employee recognize his strengths and weak points. Executive coaching is the perfect solution to this problem. The coach is an outsider to the organization and his inputs to the employees, about the ways in which they can meet their personal, as well as organizational goals, by sharpening their skills and overcoming all the current and potential hurdles, can be very useful in improving their productivity.
Business Coach believes that the need for life coaching and executive coaching is necessary for employees who are undergoing changes with respect to their professional lives. Barry Elliot has been contributing to leading magazines for the past 10 years. He’s also an accredited researcher on the subject, for leading research institutes in the USA.