Business leaders benefit greatly from executive coaching, consulting one-on-one with a trusted expert about how to enhance their leadership skillset. They gain actionable strategies that they can begin to leverage in their daily work right away, along with personalized advice on how to implement them.
Top 3 Most Prominent Areas of Coaching Focus
What Business Leaders Use Executive Coaching and Consulting For?
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Developing influence as a leader
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Managing time for maximum productivity
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Having difficult conversations that get results
These represent three central challenges that most aspiring and current leaders face. How to develop influence remains a mystery that causes them to stagnate in their career. In our speed-oriented culture, it takes real skill to budget time effectively. And many people spend much time and energy anguishing about the difficult conversations they should be having, rather than initiating the conversation and moving on to other things. Growing in each of these ways can play a pivotal role in leaders’ career advancement and their ability to drive results.
Developing Influence as a Leader
Learn to Influence Up, Down, and Across
This coaching program, lead with influence, will show leaders how to become the company’s top performers, who influence outcomes, contribute to major decisions, and create change that moves your company ahead. They will learn how to influence up (engage superiors), down (empower subordinates), and laterally (build peer relationships). Leaders will receive coaching on developing the five traits all influential people have:
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A solid reputation
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An enhanced skill set
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Executive presence
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Superior likability
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The power to persuade
In executive coaching sessions, I share specific guidance for developing all of these traits, using the Executive Presence Model that I have created. Moreover, I talk one-on-one with clients to help them determine the steps they can start taking today to cultivate qualities such as executive presence. When consulting with these business leaders in coaching sessions, I help them assess where they may need to build more credibility and trust with coworkers in order to strengthen their reputation, and how they can improve their delivery in order to hone the power to persuade.
If clients are unclear on how to improve their likeability, we discuss specific examples of how they conduct themselves in a variety of situations and the concrete ways that they can improve. Through ongoing coaching sessions, they get regular feedback that tells them whether they’re moving in the right direction and how they need to adapt.
Make Time for Work That Matters
Three Ways to Prioritize Your Work for Maximum Impact
In this coaching program, I help leaders manage their time instead of letting time manage their lives. They learn how to use time effectively by prioritizing and completing the most important work first. That means they need to focus on executing work that has the most impact, while delegating or eliminating other tasks. I show leaders how to take back their own time through tactics like these:
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Utilizing time-blocking on their calendar to protect their time.
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Delegating work to employees.
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Saying no to anything that gets in the way of what is most important.
Rather than feeling guilty for delegating tasks, leaders learn that it actually gives their direct reports the chance to prove what they’re capable of and hone their own skill set. Their direct reports may feel a sense of pride and validation when a leader trusts them with a higher-level task. Managers can use these skill-building moments to grow their people’s capabilities.
Time-blocking will help leaders accomplish more by devoting the time and focus needed to give each project their best effort. They’ll gain guidance on how to maximize what they can accomplish during their peak times of productivity by structuring their day wisely and banishing interruptions.
Finally, by determining their areas of key priority, they’ll learn which tasks to say no to. That way, every task on their plate will contribute to their core goals and personal vision in a tangible way.
Difficult Conversations
Practical Tactics for Crucial Communication
In my coaching work, I have seen how an attitude of avoidance leads to misunderstandings and decreased productivity—while serving as a constant source of anxiety and a major drain on their energy. In my book, Stop Avoiding Difficult Conversations, I provide guidance on how leaders can handle conflict, confrontation, and controversy. If you want to learn practical tactics for crucial communication and how to talk effectively about touchy topics, it’s time to learn how to have these type of challenging conversations.
By consulting with an executive coach, business leaders learn to resolve conflict.
When leaders actually have the difficult conversations rather than postponing them indefinitely, they minimize conflict and tension. Thus, they’ll avoid damaging the working relationships that are so important to their success. This coaching program shows leaders how to:
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Improve their conflict-resolution skills.
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Get to the root of the problem and resolve it.
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Discuss what matters most with their coworkers in a non-confrontational manner.
A coach can show how to structure these tough conversations.
Many leaders greatly improve their ability to have tough but productive conversations with the help of an experienced coach. I walk business leaders through how to structure these conversations and master their emotions in these moments, as well as giving specific examples of how to phrase their feedback. Practicing the conversation with a coach beforehand gives them the skill and confidence to navigate the real conversation smoothly and effectively.
Through coaching in these areas of focus, clients begin to see dramatic improvements fairly quickly. They gain support tailored to their needs, which clears up areas of confusion rather than leaving them to fester. As a result, they can focus on forward movement. Thus, I highly recommend one-on-one executive coaching for those who want to get serious about career advancement, managing their talent skillfully, and becoming the most effective leader they can be.
Business leaders, take the next step forward and start working with Joel so you can gain from his executive coaching and consulting program. Hire Joel Today!
