Executive Coaching

Business and Executive Coaching Skills

Executive Coaching

Ok so you're are a key executive in your company.

But what if you played Football for England? Wouldn't you want a guy like this right there beside you every day?

Just about everyone in the Executive Coaching field reaches for the sports analogy first because it's so obvious.

In order to achieve any form of development a sportsperson must have a coach.

No one questions it, or assumes - whatever the sport - that anyone would go it alone.

But it is not just sport where people have on-going professional support as a matter of course. Psychotherapists and counsellors are required to have supervision in order to achieve accreditation (and credibility); dancers take class every day with a ballet master; classical musicians and opera singers have lessons every week when possible; many doctors and others have peer reviews.

The question we ask is: why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you as a business person have some form of coaching as a way of getting professional support?

Executive Coaching for Business People

People rely on your skills, judgements and decisions and expect you to continually "come up with the goods".

As a matter of course, you are called upon to:

And, Oh! by the way, just deal with the internal and external pressures that go with your position.

Part of the deal is that others expect you to handle all this and more with grace, professionalism, energy and enthusiasm.

And then there's the rest of your life, too: all that work-life balance stuff.

Coaching for Executives

Fortunately, people like you aren't expected to go it alone.

You might want to be perceived as super-person, but even super-people have coaching and support.

All the 'big people' have their own coaches, mentors, 'gurus', counsellors or wise person.

The big big people such as Presidents and Prime Ministers have advisors not just because it's 'lonely at the top' but because 'big' people also know that whether it's an advisor, coach, teacher, master, another person brings a wider perspective, additional points of view and a degree of objectivity that is sometimes hard to find when you're right in the middle.

Indeed, sometimes it's not only 'lonely at the top', but when you go it alone at any level in an organisation, there is the danger of being isolated, unable to see the wood for the trees, or stuck in narrow thinking.

Executive Coaching is one way to broaden your thinking and ability to see both the woods and the trees.

That's what we offer: confidentiality, objectivity, motivation, unbiased, practical support and exceptionally high level business coaching skills.

Our Business and Executive Coaching deals with Presentation Skills, Change Management Issues, Communication Skills and Relationship Issues.

Indeed anything where you know extra support and expertise could make a significant difference to how you feel and what you do.

Read some of our thoughts around Coaching and Mentoring in the Workplace

Executive Coaching: Our Coaches

Impact Factory has been in operation since 1991 and from the very beginning we have run Executive Coaching for key individuals in the private and public sectors.

Our Executive Coaches are exceptional: they all have eclectic backgrounds and most importantly they all have multi-faceted lives with bags of experience. They don't just look at situations from a business point of view, but equally crucially, from a humanistic/holistic point of view.

Executive Coaching Work Life Balance

This is important because however much you may try, you can't really divorce the work person from the private person. Of course, the business issues at hand are central and are the main focus of any sessions we run.

However, the plus of having people with loads of life experience is that they can get under the skin of the problems to work with individuals not just on immediate solutions but on long-term behaviour change, management capabilities, strategic thinking, communication and influencing skills; all essential for developing their profiles at work.

Our Executive Coaches have worked with people from every kind of company you can imagine: pharmaceuticals, facilities management, police forces, housing associations, local and central government, international banks, PR and media companies, charities, NHS trusts, etc.

They have worked within every level of an organisation as well: Board members, senior managers, middle managers and those looking to develop their careers wherever they sit within their company.

Approaching every session with insight, objectivity and empathy, their goal is to bring out the best in everyone they work with, offering practical, usable skills and relevant advice.

Every Impact Factory Executive Coach also runs our tailored and open courses; they are responsible for creating most of our courses and processes; their training and personal development with us has been extensive and they receive on-going supervision.

All their considerable skills are distilled and focused so that individuals who come on Executive Coaching sessions leave feeling reinvigorated, confident and far more capable of handling whatever comes their way.

Not only that, our Executive Coaches are highly skilled in creating discreet, confidential environments in which to work giving people the freedom to talk about their issues, concerns, difficulties, hopes and aspirations.