Executive Onboarding

Executive Onboarding
3. A mentor, trainer or teacher can significantly improve
the outcome of deliberate practice, as they often will be
instrumental in providing continuous feedback.
Practicing without feedback is pointless. As a person,
you need to see and understand the effects of your
practice. Without feedback, there is a high probability
that you won’t improve very much; in fact, you may just
be building up another suboptimal element of your
activity, which won’t improve the activity overall.
However, the varying quality of teachers, mentors,
etcetera invariably will affect the quality outcome of the
practice undertaken.
4. Deliberate practice is mentally demanding, as it requires
an ability to sustain concentration over a long period.
Often, deliberate practice requires a combination of
being intellectually, as well as physically, challenged.
However, improving your skill within a therapeutic area
in the life science industry for instance may be more
intellectually rather than physically demanding as
opposed to the tennis player for whom it may be more
physically than intellectually demanding to improve
elements of his/her game. Nonetheless, deliberate
practice is a demanding exercise, but with the positive
help of timing and other external factors such as e.g. a
good mentor/coach, personal circumstances and an
accommodating social environment, the high
performing executive will be able to raise the bar.
5. To be effective in the long run, deliberate practice needs
to be accompanied by a growing belief in oneself as a
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