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What is Executive Coaching?

Enabling Development coaching is an interactive process designed to help individuals to develop rapidly for the benefit of the organisation. It is mainly work related and focused on improving performance and behaviour. It is a 'measurable goal-orientated' form of personal/team development tailored for busy leaders and managers.

Coaching is a methodology that allows you to work in real time on real issues in the business context and importantly make the links and address key areas in the non-business context.

Compared to training, executive coaching is a much more effective way of getting to the heart of the matter and really addressing your own agenda in a non-threatening, confidential and sustainable way.

The essential features of the Enabling Development coaching programmes are that they are time limited, goal specific, in the work context and specifically tailored to learning. It utilises feedback and offers some objectivity.

So how does it differ from mentoring?

One way of describing the difference is that a coach is �your guide on the side� whilst a mentor is �a sage on the stage�

Coaching is holding up a mirror to your and your business context. The coach provides a non-directive toolkit of approaches and facilitates your development through agreed outcomes and challenge. One real advantage of coaching is that it offers you the tools and thought process to deal with anything.

Mentoring is more about the �I�ve been here before and can share my experience to help you.� In other words mentoring can often assist with a specific situation � but does enable you to deal with whatever arises in the future?