Every leader confronts being alone with the organizational and personal impacts of their decisions. A skilled coach is a thought-partner in a leader’s efforts to contemplate the implications of decisions and commit to a course of action. A coach should be illuminating what is serving you as a leader and what is stopping you from being the leader you desire to be.
Randy has served as my personal coach for 2.5 years. He brings authenticity, trustworthiness, intellect and real-life executive leadership expertise to his coaching role. He takes a holistic and healthy approach to professional/personal life balance, demonstrates excellent listening skills, never judges and always provides a perspective that stimulates different and deeper thinking in his client. He takes a client-centered, outcome-based approach, always encouraging the establishment of benchmarks to measure progress and to keep things moving forward. Lastly, he provides great feedback and never misses the opportunity to help you celebrate not only the achievement of the big milestone but also your small accomplishments along the way.
Leaders are told today, among other best-selling authors’ admonitions, that they must be empathic, inclusive, skilled listeners, and adept at intuitive group leadership while responding to the multiple generational needs of their employees. This tension of simultaneously attending to both Self and Others is ongoing and if ignored will result in undesirable outcomes for either the executive or those whose lives they influence.
A business coach slows the pace of reflexive-actions and supports the leader in considering what personal and professional motivations might be impacting their leadership role. Judgment of the individual is removed.
