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“Manage yourself first, then you will find the power to manage the world.”
Platon
System may only survive if they can adapt to changes. Once a leader develops and transforms himself/herself in every aspect within a system, this development makes a great contribution to the existence of the system in a healthier and stronger way. At this very point, one of the most enjoyable journeys that will substantially contribute to the development of leaders is “Executive Coaching”.
“Coaching is unlocking the potential for individuals to maximize their performance,” says John Whitmore. Coaching helps people learn rather than teaching them. We are like acorns, acorns that have the potential to be a great oak tree. We need nourishment, encouragement, and enlightenment to move forward, but oak trees already have that in themselves ”, he states.
The coaching perspective makes individuals and organizations agile, reveals the potential of leaders and provides a visionary perspective by enlarging the areas they are conscious of. In fact, what changes life is not the answers, but the powerful questions you dare to ask yourself. A leader who receives coaching increases the level of awareness about the areas stopping and motivating them by meticulously analysing the difference between the current situation and the situation they want to be with the strong questions asked. Awareness stimulates the person by creating a permanent behavioural change, and like every coaching, executive coaching proceeds on the basis of creating this awareness.
Today, many business leaders develop a perspective to benefit and profit from the opportunities and challenges they come across, from now until tomorrow, by welcoming a professional coach in their lives.
The main purpose of executive coaching is to develop the abilities of leaders to achieve and realise their corporate goals by focusing on both individual and corporate performances. Coaching helps the leader, who has become a key player in corporate life for success, to increase his humane development skills. As a result, the very point of resting and listening, being understood and understand, taking decisions and having decisions taken features a prominent distinction
for leaders who make a difference.
Provided for the purpose of increasing skills and abilities, improving performance, particularly, in developmental areas, executive coaching is a detailed and individualized process designed to help leaders gain new perspectives in raising their thinking quality and emotional intelligence by achieving a comparatively better work-life balance.
How does executive coaching progress?
After the first interview, which we call a chemistry interview, we inform your about the number of sessions we need to study, what we will discuss in our sessions, which methods will be used and finally we prepare a special schedule for you. Our sessions take 50 minutes. We continue the coaching process, starting with vision, values and goals. During the session, we make assessments about the development areas. We aim to create a maximum benefit in coaching by using a number of elements from many different techniques according to your needs. After each session, we discuss your awareness, emerging belief systems, approaches, decisions and the basic behaviour patterns you will form in your life from now on, and we finish our sessions with your action plans in line with your long and short term goals.
Suggestions
Please take a look at the following resources on leadership development that I have also benefited from:
• Leadership and The One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard, Ph.D
• The Inner Game of Work- W. Timoty Gallwey
• Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today’s Leaders
