Executive Coaching - A Guide For The HR Professional.pdf

• He held me to my stated goals and mission, not allowing me to
cave to time pressure or convenience or a new idea or relationship
that seemed like “the answer.”
• He refused to allow me to “should” myself.
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• He never lost sight (nor allowed me to lose sight) of the systemic
impact of my thinking and ideas. We always looked broadly at
family, work, and life systems and implications.
• He offered questions and pathways, not solutions. He remained
present and awake . . . allowing me to do the same.
• When I was really running amok, he did not hesitate to be
instantly redirective.
What did not prove to be useful?
We are at very different seasons in our lives. Sometimes his sense of
“been there, done that” caused him not to resonate with my excitement
over an idea.
As with every human interaction, we each were (from time to
time) the object of the other’s projections.
Are you aware of using the benefits of the coaching in your
work today?
Coaching senior executives is a part of my life’s work. His model has
greatly improved my effectiveness.
Are you using the benefits from the coaching in your
continuing development?
I continue to access a personal board of directors. However, as a
result of this experience, I have changed the nature of that group. I
am surrounding myself with more divergent and better thinkers.