David DeHaven: Executive Coaching Aims

1. David DeHaven: Executive Coaching Aims Executive coaching is becoming increasingly popular as the day to day stress of being an executive and the expectations increase, as to what executives can achieve in their corporate environment and for their company. David DeHaven is an Executive Coach, Business Strategist, passionate educator and dedicated Father. Many people misunderstand the purpose of executive coaching. It is not simply executive education. It is not simply a feel good seminar. It is an ongoing series of roughly ten sessions where the executive has one on one access to an executive coach. During these sessions, the coach and executive work together to come up with a set of inspiring, yet challenging goals that will become the basis for the executive coaching series. The aim is that these goals will be created and worded in a way that the executive will not have been able to do on their own and once achieved, will have moved the executive forward in his/her chosen direction far beyond their expectations. Obviously, once this has occurred at the end of the executive coaching series, the executive will be in a far better position mentally, in their career and possibly even on a personal level. The reason for this is that executive coaching is actually a sub set of life coaching. Life coaching aims to achieve the above with a set of goals that can be applied to all walks of life whether they be relationship, career, travel, hobbies or financial. Since each of these personal areas can effect the ability of an executive to achieve and progress in the corporate environment, it is possible that the executive coaching goal set may extend into personal goals. Once the goals have been set in the first session, the remaining sessions are about creating the strategies and actions that will move the executive along the path towards those goals. This journey is filled with emotional ups and downs. It is not simply about creating a list of to do items and then doing them. If that is all there was to achieving the goals then the executive most likely would have already achieved them. Because they haven't yet achieved them usually means that something is holding them back that could be due to any one of a number of factors including their mindset, their emotions around that area or physical obstacles.

2. What tends to happen in executive coaching is that as the executive begins carrying out the strategies and actions that will move them forward, these obstacles present themselves and it is at this point in particular that the coach is needed to help the executive move forward through or past these obstacles. This is the reason many more executives are taking on an executive coaching series