WHY EXECUTIVE COACHING/MENTORING?

Business success depends on all of the human components of the business cranking on all cylinders over a sustained period. At various stages of our lives, we all need help in reaching the next plateau, or simply getting through personal roadblocks. That's where a personal coach for you and/or your key employees becomes critical to the total business success picture.

		The objective of a coach is to raise performance, increase happiness, enhance strengths, acquire missing essential elements necessary for success, and correct or compensate for weaknesses.   Who doesn't need that?

It is a fact that people who excel often make use of personal coaches somewhere in their career paths. I did, for a long time! In today's competitive business environment, a business coach isn't a luxury. It's a necessity. In a radically changing world, new and dynamically different work habits are required to succeed. Technical skills must be complemented by personal charisma, traits, perceptions and how you have (or don't have) a positive effect on people in your world.

So many people today are using coaching more and more, that you are almost at a disadvantage if you do not.

Do you often feel that you work so hard, but are not recognized? A coach can help.

Waiting for a turning point in your life (such as a career change, a business downturn, a promotion, being passed over for a promotion, a move into a new or different environment, either geographically or functionally, a change in reporting, job requirements, or perhaps a new boss), can often be too late to undo the fatal flaw that got you there.

Focusing on "outward appearance" when the "inward appearance" is not coordinated, will do little good.

In today's tight labor market, it is very often less expensive to "fix" the soft issues with existing employees, than to lose them and have to replace them, only to go through similar issues.

Owners and good managers want their people to excel! But often, they lack either the skills or the time to make it happen. Again, that's where a coach comes in.

We go to all the trouble to do periodic performance reviews, and then leave the employee to their own devices to correct the issues discussed. Often, they can not. If you have an overall good employee, with a fatal or problematic flaw, you own it to your team, and to them, to give them the help to overcome the problem, and better themselves, and the team.

Companies often promote someone into a position both parties know they are not YET qualified for. And then, they leave them to fail. Better to give them the help up front, shorten the learning curve, and get to the end faster. Clearly, a promoted person will rarely tell you they need any type of help. Left to their own devices, they often fail, at great cost to the company during the learning period. Another good reason to help them with outside assistance.

Alternatives of firing, risk of lawsuits, replacement costs, training, lost productive time, often far outweigh the cost of a coach now.

People often need sounding boards, where none exist inside the company, need validation of feelings (or corrections of those feelings), need to feel the value they truly have, but, for whatever reason, can't see, and simply put, should never settle into a feeling of long-term complacency.

They need to hone their ability to lead, how to know what and when to broach sensitive issues, how to sell their ideas successfully, learn how to gain more respect and stop the habits that are causing the loss of that, how to be perceived as standing out, how to stand up and be counted (but not out), and generally, to be seen as a team player, not an individualist.

Coaching often becomes even more necessary as we grow in our careers, and our options begin to narrow. Someone has to reopen the option door.

Keep in mind that your key employees are welcome to take advantage of this positive move on their own (as I did), or in conjunction with your company's efforts. Please make them aware of this service being available to them. Change Management Implementation, Inc. can help you and your team. Call to discuss specifics (800-724-3525, or e-mail dennis@dhoppe.com.