CEO Today - March 2022

What are your views on the benefits of coaching? Generally, all of us, human beings, have blind spots so collecting 360 feedback or using some assessment instruments helps provide some insights for what can be in service to the person to grow and improve for a coaching partnership. We have habits we have built up over the years where we have automatic behaviours that we do without thinking or noticing. These habits may have served us at an earlier time in our life, but not serve us in the future. We may want to make changes and coaching can help support making those changes. A coach can help a coachee come from the perspective I am not good at it yet, but I will achieve. I also have the perspective we are what we practice and we can practice other ways of doing and interacting and achieving. We form assessments based on our experience and observations. We all are observers. Our assessments drive us to take certain actions and then get certain results. If we want to get different results, we need to examine our assessments and form new ones. A coach can help a client identify their assessments, the actions and results and what the client wants to be different and uncover new possibilities. Our education and academics generally focus on the mind. We often focus only on our thinking. Through more research on the brain If we want to get different results, we need to examine our assessments and form new ones. “ “ 52 EXECUTIVE COACHING

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