The Necessity Of Managerial Coaching

In the days when wives tended to stay at home and men went to work people believed that ‘behind every successful man there was woman. They were often right. An upwardly mobile man tended to receive the support of wife knew him intimately and was able to empathize completely with his interests, performing executive coaching night and day.

A team coach enjoys a position of much more power even though his position can become precarious after even one team loss. He is often in a position to select players for the team, and the power of individual players is diluted considerably by other players.

The vulnerable relationship between client and coach can best be handled by a clear understanding of respective roles. The client maybe be more successful than the coach ever will be but the coach offers advice and empathy, and these things are quite independent of relative abilities.

In many instances a person may need coaching because he or she is not ready for a position of authority. Such situations arise where government policies of ‘affirmative action’ propel people of particular races or ethnic origins into senior positions although they are quite unprepared them, having not earned their promotion through merit. They may need a coach because they are boorish and incompetent.

Conversely, an executive may have fought his way up through getting qualified and proving competence. Being confident and competent, he will be likely to appreciate that a new position will require skills that might not have been relevant earlier in his career. For example, public speaking can become an important skill when a person is suddenly in a a position of representing an organization.

Any career is a course. Like water flowing down a river bed there are obstacles in a career path. There are easy parts and sudden waterfalls. An executive coach has the privilege of helping an important person negotiate the critical parts of his life’s course.

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