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Why You Need an Executive Coach

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Bonnie Marcus : I earned my certification as an executive coach in 2006. At that time most people still assumed that coaching was done primarily in sports not business. Coaching for executives was a relatively unknown field and untapped resource.

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How Leadership Team Coaching Benefits More Than Executives

N2Growth Blog

One Stanford study demonstrated that while about 75% of CEOs say they don’t receive any leadership advice, almost 100% of CEOs want this advice and welcome coaching. Much like the coach of a sports team, a leadership team coach will challenge executives to pursue their full potential.

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Executive Coaching in a Vacuum Vs. With Context

CO2

In team sports, coaches try to put their players in a position to succeed. In individual sports, coaches design drills and exercises to improve specific aspects of a player’s game—like second serves in tennis or triple axels in figure skating. The goal is to improve the individual’s form, accuracy, strength, or endurance.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2023

Leading Blog

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. Leadership Revolution : The Future of Developing Dynamic Leaders by Lori Mazan In Leadership Revolution , executive coach Lori Mazan delivers an exciting new approach to leadership development tailor-made for the 21st century.

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The 3 Biggest Problems with Accountability and What You Can Do to Fix Them

Leading Blog

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. Make accountability a team sport. Marianne Pantalon is a licensed clinical psychologist and executive coach.

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How to Win with Pattern Recognition

Next Level Blog

As an executive coach and advisor to senior executives in a wide range of industries, pattern recognition is vital to my work as well. Keep Them in the Loop : Pattern recognition should be a team sport. The hook of a hit song by Matchbox Twenty year ago was the lyric, “Let’s see how far we’ve come.”

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department.

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