Executive Career Coaching – Bringing Out The Best In You!
By: William Jackson
Submitted: 2009-10-14 01:38:34 | Word Count: 508
Of all the major decisions we make in our life, choosing the “right” career clearly rank amongst the top. It begins as early as our high-school years and continues on to employment choices and personal career growth opportunities as we progress in our careers. Finding yourself stalling on your career path can be a daunting and confusing experience. The rapidly changing and uncertain business environment also adds to the anxiety of senior executives when exploring career switches. Job security isn’t based on tenure and employer loyalty as much as it is on knowledge, skills and added value.
As a result of these changing trends and environment, Career Coaching is no longer just the interest of a select and privileged few, but a necessary survival skill.
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Coaching help individuals discover what they really want to do with their lives and then develop a strategy to achieve it. They aid any individual in the areas of Promotion, change of job, and even early retirement planning resolutions.
Research reveals that Career Coaching not only aids individuals who are moving into a desired new role, but it increases the earnings and salary package. Individuals who embarked on Career Coaching find a new role quickly after redundancy or a career break. The coaching process is also able to strategize and plan transition into self-employment.
Individuals cannot effectively plan their career unless they first put it in the context of a well thought out professional career goal. Knowing this makes a small investment of time, money and energy to protect the job- a very worthwhile investment.
Career Coaching in Corporate Organisations
Companies are increasingly turning to coaching as a capacity building tool to develop leadership skills and improve financial and competitive performance. Effective Professional coaching helps employees to cope with social demands, reduce stress and encourage spiritual and leisure activities. In essence, they help organizations achieve work life balance. The program will allow the personnel to learn to solve their work problems and increase their competency and strengths. Other benefits of a Career Coaching program includes
• Consistent improvements in productivity
• Higher staff and customer service satisfaction
• Enhanced shareholders and stake holder’s value by improving bottom line
• Higher employee retention and loyalty
Results of Career Coaching = Organizational Success
Appointing a Professional Career Coach may provide you with useful information & guidance that will help the organization to better understand what the company really needs. Organisations also employ Career coaches to sharpen leadership skills of high potential management candidates. At times, career coaches are also sought to correct management behaviour problems, ensure the success and decrease the failure of newly promoted managers. The entire coaching process also corrects employee relations problems and reduces employee conflicts. This sharpens and aids required management and leadership skills for middle and senior management. As a result, many of their employees noted an increase in organizational well-being.
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