Are you genuinely coachable?

Companies invest heavily in leaders to spur growth, innovation, and resilience. However, a vital question to ask yourself before embarking upon executive coaching is: Are you genuinely coachable?

Effective executive coaching relies heavily on the individual's active participation and based on my 27 years of experience, here are critical success traits I've consistently observed:

1. Openness to Feedback: Embrace relevant, constructive feedback even when it’s uncomfortable.
✴  Self-Reflection: Do you see feedback as an opportunity to improve?

2. Willingness to Change: Embrace new strategies and mindsets that you know will help.
✴ Self-Reflection: Are you ready to step out of your comfort zone?

3. Commitment: Dedicate time and effort to attend sessions and break through the barriers to do what you say you’ll do.
✴ Self-Reflection: Will you commit to your development and improvement?

4. Self-Awareness: Understand how to maximise strengths and address non-productive behaviour patterns.
✴ Self-Reflection: How well do you know yourself?

5. Desire for Growth: Motivated to excel as a leader and dedicated to cultivating leadership excellence within your team.
✴ Self-Reflection: What drives your desire for coaching?

6. Patience and Perseverance: Understand coaching is a marathon, not a sprint.
✴  Self-Reflection: Are you patient and do you persevere?

Executive coaching is a powerful catalyst for personal and professional growth, but its success hinges on fully embracing the process. Ask yourself: Are you coachable? Embracing self-reflection is the first step toward unlocking your potential and achieving the results you want.

Let’s chat about how the Resilience Group can support you to enhance your executive leadership skills.

Leading a team smarter than you.... What would it mean to you?

Imagine this… Leading a team smarter than you – what would it mean to you?

Over my 26 years of working with executives, as an executive business coach one thing is clear: the most successful leaders are masters at building and leading high-performing teams—teams that may even be smarter than they are! Imagine what you’d achieve!

No matter how talented or experienced you are, none of us can achieve results alone. To kick your goals, you need to know how to build, nurture, and guide a team that’s prepared to tackle big challenges.

But how do top executives make this happen? It’s not always easy to bring together smart, diverse talent and give them the space they need to shine.

Leadership is about amplifying the strengths of others. Yet sometimes, the biggest barrier to building an exceptional team is… the leader.

Executive business coach

If you’re ready to thrive as an executive—and make your life a whole lot easier—reach out and work with an executive business coach. With unparalleled experience and executive business coaching expertise, we swiftly identify your unique challenges, challenge assumptions, offer decision-making support, and deliver fresh, credible insights so you get a high-performing team.

Let’s chat about how the Resilience Group can support you in building a high-performing team that delights you!

Thinking About Engaging an Executive Business Coach?

Executives are expected to regularly tackle high-stakes issues, and in doing so they must be able to engage effectively with an executive team, boards, and diverse stakeholders. Often the buck stops with you and the C-suite can be an unforgiving space!

You don’t have to go it alone! Support from an Executive Coach can make all the difference and can put you firmly on the fast track to developing your executive mindset and deliver impressive results for your organisation.

Here are three considerations to ponder when selecting an executive business coach:

1.     Do they have C-suite experience?

Be sure to prioritise professionals who have done the hard yards and have proven experience and results in executive settings.

2.     Step outside the echo chamber

Choose an executive business coach who doesn’t have a background in your specific line of business. Coaches with experience in multiple industries can introduce fresh perspectives and help you to think beyond industry-specific blind spots. They haven’t drunk your corporate kool- aid!

3.     Get off to a fast start!

Engage a coach who uses a validated diagnostic tool to help identify blind spots and successful behavior patterns so that you can get started on the important work fast. Everyone likes to achieve their return on their investment quickly and to hit the ground running.

Why wait?

Let’s chat about we can help you.

Why Leaving Your Comfort Zone Matters?

Throughout my extensive 27-year career as an executive business coach, I have consistently observed the profound cognitive and emotional benefits that result from executives stepping beyond their psychological comfort zones, challenging the status quo, and adopting an agile, executive mindset.

While embracing new challenges and moving away from familiar behavioural patterns may seem risky and uncomfortable, the other side of risk is opportunity. Achieving great success often involves taking calculated risks rather than avoiding them.

Venturing beyond familiar boundaries can ignite:

1.  Improved Resilience and Coping Skills: Build a robust mental framework that enhances the capacity to handle future challenges and changes with greater ease and effectiveness.

2. Enhanced Self-Awareness and Self-Confidence: Gain a deeper understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses, leading to increased confidence in decision-making and leadership.

3. Strengthened Ability to Learn and Adapt: Develop a growth mindset that enhances the ability to quickly learn from new experiences and adapt to changing environments.

4. Increased Creativity: Foster innovative thinking by encouraging the exploration of new ideas and approaches.

5. Expanded Opportunities: Open doors to new possibilities and networks, broadening horizons and career prospects.

Each client has a unique understanding of their comfort zone but through coaching I’ve been able to provide valuable assistance, guiding executives as they take those first tentative steps into an uncertain but ultimately rewarding new world.

Let’s chat about how you can make leaving your Comfort Zone a habit that leads to …

Is your focus on scarcity?

We’re delighted to share some thoughts on one of the most challenging and topical issues facing senior executives and their teams. The mindset you bring to the table as an executive leader is profoundly important and can make a world of difference to how you perform and to how others respond to you.

One common yet limiting mindset we have observed is ‘scarcity thinking’, where the focus is on a lack of resources such as time, money, or talent. While this perspective can promote careful resource management, it can also be a reactionary response that isn’t well thought through. I’m sure you’ve seen examples of this! 

 A scarcity mindset in executive teams can play out poorly across an organisation and negatively impact culture and strategic decision making. This negativity can infect others and lead to a pervasive downward spiral.

 Here are some benefits of challenging a scarcity mindset:

•  Reframing

 By reframing scarcity thinking, executives can see possibilities and opportunities rather than risks or constraints.

• An Abundance Mindset

 An abundance mindset encourages moving towards embracing risk rather than avoiding it and pursuing ambitious and future-focused goals.

•  Strategic Risk Taking

 Fostering a culture of experimentation and learning enables executives to become comfortable with strategic risk taking. This approach can lead to significant innovations and competitive advantages.

•  Long-Term Vision

 A clear, long-term vision that goes beyond immediate challenges helps executives to prioritise initiatives that drive sustainable growth and success, and to ensure that staff are on board with strategic planning and the organisation’s future vision.

By breaking free from the limitations of scarcity thinking, executives can unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth and lead their organisations to greater heights, as well as enhancing their own leadership skill set.

Is scarcity thinking something you’ve experienced? we’d love to hear your thoughts.

  If you are interested in learning more about how to break free from scarcity thinking Let’s chat.

Insights From 27 Years as an Executive Business Coach - Why Executives Seek Coaching

As CEO of the Resilience Group, my work and my passion are focused on empowering good leaders to become extraordinary leaders.

Far from resting on their laurels and admiring the view from the top, dedicated and professional executives from all types of business and industry recognise that the current climate of economic uncertainty, increasing global competition, and seemingly Orwellian new and potential technology all contribute to daily challenges and the need for ever-increasing innovation and resilience.

Regardless of the size of your business or organisation, its annual turnover, or whether you supply good or services, an executive business coach can partner with you to address issues that are personally challenging, or to determine ways to achieve personal growth, develop new skills, and foster greater staff satisfaction and engagement.

Although each leader and each business is unique, I find that there are a lot of similar concerns and issues that are relevant to anyone involved in leadership, supervision, and management. I have come up with my personal ‘top 10 tips’ to give you an insight into how executive business coaching can be of benefit in a practical way and can help you develop your own tools and strategies for a proactive approach to continuous improvement of your personal and professional skills.

Based on my extensive 27 years of experience, here are the top 10 reasons that an executive will seek coaching.

1. Yes, the view is good, but ….

…. it can be lonely at the top! It can make it difficult to converse with other colleagues and staff on anything other than narrow and focused topics, and there can also be questions around personal and professional boundaries with personnel who are not part of the management hierarchy. An executive business coach understands the issues that accompany an executive role and can provide a sounding board and some workable ideas to address these issues.

2. From dream to reality

A lot of my interaction with clients involves helping them take their plans and ideas from the drawing board to the company board! Discussing the potential, risk, cost, and possible roadblocks to implementing brilliant ideas and strategies provides a clear focus and a realistic timeline for successful implementation.

3. There’s no ‘I’ in team

We all like to think of ourselves as ‘team players’ but in reality disparate personalities and views can cause internal strife in even the strongest of teams. An executive business coach can provide insights into individual character traits and inter-team dynamics.

4. Break it to me gently

When you are often the one giving feedback and constructive criticism, it can be difficult to appraise your own performance. An executive business coach can provide mentoring and on point feedback that is objective and unbiased.

5. Ringing in the changes

While executive level professionals are expected to live and breathe change management, the reality is often different. Even when change is anticipated and welcomed, any transition brings with it new challenges to master. Having a sounding board and an objective professional to discuss things with can make any transition easier.

6. Could do better!.

Sometimes being a high achiever means that you actually achieve all your current goals. This can provide a feeling of anticlimax, and a loss of motivation. Talking to a professional can help you realise new goals and areas of focus, leading to innovation and a renewed sense of purpose – either within the professional or personal sphere.

7. Is that it?

High achievers tend to be driven and good at success, but they don't always create the success they really want. If you've ever wondered, "Is this all there is?", or "How did I get myself into this and how do I get out?", you could really benefit from working with a great coach. Everybody has a few blind spots. In fact, neuroscientists say we are unconscious of 95% of what goes on in our brains. Think about that! A good coach can see you as you are, without judgment, and help you be your best and achieve what you're built to do.

8. The meaning of life

Although a challenge to philosophers for centuries, it’s generally acknowledged that ‘doing what you love and loving what you do’ goes a long way to providing satisfaction and meaning to life. Finding new ways to direct your energy and passion in a professional setting is one of the benefits of business coaching.

9. Taking care of business – and yourself

While we all know theoretically that we need to take a holistic approach to health to perform at our best at work, the challenges and stresses of an executive role can all too easily take their toll. Having ‘been there, done that,’ I (and my experienced colleagues) can provide practical tips for relaxation, changing focus, and setting boundaries.

10. Invest in the best – you!

With the right coach in your corner, you can accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and continue leading and managing to the best of your ability. Engaging an executive business coach is an excellent investment in realising your full potential to maximise your personal and business achievements.

We’d love to hear from you - what do you think are the most important of these 10?

Contact Cheryl for an obligation free chat!