• What is executive coaching?

Executive coaching is in essence leadership and performance coaching. Through empowering interactions with your coach and the mastering of strategic tools you work towards:

• practical, transformational leadership
• establishing a team culture of excellent performance
• effective micro and macro management
• self-reliance and independent decision making
• finding, producing and implementing solutions applicable to your role in the company
• experiencing a sense of fulfillment.

Perhaps you are a master in your field, have just been promoted to executive level and are unsure about the leadership challenges involved. Or you might be a seasoned executive but are finding it lonely at the top; you need a competent, objective sounding board to help clarify vital problems and challenges and reach a prudent solution. Perhaps you don’t know how to defuse a conflict situation at work; or you may feel the pressure of balancing your work and personal life and feel overwhelmed by your lack of time. Executive coaching will help you surmount your vulnerabilities and utilise your strengths in devising a plan of action.

• The executive coaching process

After the first introductory interview the coaching process typically involves weekly one-on-one sessions of 60 – 90 minutes over a period of 3 – 6 months. This schedule is flexible, depending on each client’s situation.

The coaching programme is designed around your individual needs, challenges and desires. It enables experiential learning and shifts in insight into problems and solutions. Coaching takes place in a private and supportive environment where you can share your concerns while receiving non-threatening and non-judgemental guidance by the coach.

During coaching sessions you can expect to: answer guiding questions by the coach; question deeply embedded past assumptions; redefine values and goals; do a gap analysis by comparing actual and potential performance; produce solutions at both personal and company level; obtain strategic tools for managing the necessary change towards growth.

Marlet’s executive coaching is focused on sustainability. Tools and strategies developed during coaching for forging new pathways are to be sustainable to bring about lasting results.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.  – John C Maxwell