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By: John petersons
Executive coaching is effective if it helps executives in dealing with the problems that occur in daily organizational activities instead of consulting those problems with a coach.

Executive coaching is a method to encourage and equip executives and corporate leaders with tools with which they can meet professional challenges. This is done by helping the executives to develop awareness regarding their behavioural patterns, how others perceive their patterns and cultivate their leaderships skills and capitalize on them. But, there could be times when executive coaching doesn’t work. To make it effective for the executive and the company, coaching has to be aligned and managed according to organization’s processes and goals. Many problems could be avoided if the person who hires the executive coach knows this need for alignment and management.

The discussions and work between an executive and consultant should be in alignment with organization’s goals and success. If not taken care then the organization is just offering free psychiatric services to their employee and take the risk of no or negative outcome. If the problems are organizational, then executive coaching might not be needed as the company has to take care of it as a group or in whatever way they consider the most professional and beneficial. Executive coaching is effective if it helps the client in getting more knowledge regarding his rights, duties, responsibilities and powers.

Executive coaching happens behind closed doors, but it shouldn’t ignore the system in which the person is operating. Many problems are normal in organizational activities and looking for executive coaching every time something or the other happens could be (and most of the times would be) un-proficient for the individual and the company.

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