December 16th, 2010 
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The Psychological Aspect to Executive Coaching
Author: Kris Koonar
Business coaching is an essential element of the business world and has provided a baffling range of career options today. Business coaching is a multi-faceted field and deals with every aspect of conducting a business. Business coaches today are aware of the significance of psychological competence in executive coaching. In the modern corporate world, more emphasis is laid on the psychological growth and the performance enhancement of executives and managers. Business coaching is an important medium to create a work environment conducive to learning processes and business functions. To deal with issues related to psychological competence, business firms require the services of skilled coaches, specialized in behavioral change.
Among all the critical competencies, Executive Coaching Practitioners have realized that psychological models and techniques pertaining to change are most essential in the highly knowledgeable and demanding work environments these days. A successful executive coach requires enforcing of a combination of psychological theory and practice skills, to efficiently help the executives perform within a broad range of professional development assignments.
When executing the theoretical and practical modules of professional development, supervision by a professionally qualified educator with relevant psychological expertise is simultaneously required. Apart from providing the much-needed skills sets, expert supervision considerably adds to the coachs learning and development. Supervision is also necessary to ensure that coach does not go beyond the professional and personal limits of competence.
Psychological-mindedness, which means self-reflection, is an oft-used term in work psychology. Another such term is business-mindedness that refers to knowledge and experience of an individual. Corporate clients have now identified psychological-mindedness, business-mindedness and relationship development, along with professional and personal-psychology based coaching skills, as the main critical competency prerequisites for any business executive or coach.
The term psychological-mindedness indicates the ability of individuals to reflect and self analyze themselves, others and subsequently the correlation between the two. In other words, it means to profoundly consider the underlying causes for behavior, feelings and thoughts. As a business coach, your main aim should be to develop their psychological-mindedness. On the contrary, many focus on acquiring new coaching tools and techniques, before developing their own skills. Coaches, devoid of psychological-mindedness, tend to concentrate on ‘hard’ skills acquisition and problem solving, with little regard to the personal issues of employees and executives.
To be a successful business coach, personal development should not be ignored when achieving important skills. A business coach with sound psychological knowledge has the ability to go to the root of any problem and accordingly develop solutions that reap long-term benefits. Self-awareness and social awareness are crucial to understand behavior.
Today, there are a number of Certified Master Coach courses that incorporate proven and useful psychological-based techniques, tools and processes that are industry-oriented. The skills included in the course are easy to learn and can be easily applied in diverse work settings.
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My business focus is executive coaching, helping companies develop a strategy around organizational culture, training, succession planning, organizational assessment, and leadership development.
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I also find I get a lot of contact from potential clients from my “No Obligation Free Consultation” materials. Whenever I advertise, no matter where it is – in person or in print – I talk about offering a free initial consultation with no obligations. It is a free assessment of their business needs. People love the word free and it draws them in.
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How may a professional executive coach and mentor positively effect my business verses the expense?
Wondering if any of you business guru’s have ever hired an Atlanta Executive Coach. If so do you feel that the outcome justified the expense. Also do you know of any Georgia Executive Consulting Companies that you would recommend?
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So I hope you consider this path in your personal and business growth.