Executive Coaching – Catalyst for High Performing Leaders

Rahul was a bright – dynamic lead of one of the verticals of a fast-growing financial sector company. He worked for over 50 hours a week, made 60 business trips a year internally & globally. However, in the recent past he had been struggling to keep his energy to address the myriad of everyday challenges & the prime projects he had in his kitty. He was unsure if this was a health issue or a plateauing of his capabilities, and to make it worst he did not know who to talk to and ‘do what” to move ahead.
Sounds familiar… honestly YES, today this is quite the pattern rather than an exception. A recent study reported that because of the fiercely competitive business environment, executives are working way longer hours than their predecessors. In addition, the lines between personal & professional lives have blurred often resulting in stress & burnout.
Luckily for Rahul, his senior sensed the challenges and brought up the topic with Rahul himself. He shared with him how he had gone through a similar phase in his career, when he was battling to keep focus on the strategic direction, integrate and do justice to his many roles & responsibilities and that too in a rocked paced work environment. He suggested that a professional coach was the way forward.
I was engaged as an Executive Coach for Rahul, with a simple and clear mandate – partner him to hold the various pieces of his work & life together and remain competitive.
Over the next 8 months, through honest candid conversations, which facilitated deeper & reflective thinking, Rahul began to learn to sort priorities and find pathways which worked for him.
Executive Coaching is a scientifically laid out process with elements of assessments & feedback processes woven into it. Executive Coaches cannot & do not solve the leader’s problems, they create a safe engaging environment for the leader to feel confident to experiment, take risks, come out of comfort zones & unconscious biases. Leaders understand their strengths & blind spots from a non-judgmental lens. This facilitates better delegation – team work – cross functional synergies etc.
Rahul shared that he was feeling higher confidence & belief, inspired to be at work, and IN-CHARGE OF HIS LIFE. His colleagues reported that Rahul was calmer & less reactive. Earlier on he would fly off the handle as he was under immense time pressure, today he has a more proactive team problem solving attitude.
Icing on the cake – Rahul leaves office by 7 pm 3 days a week and heads to the gym

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