In Focus/Executive Coaching

A Winning Recipe for Working with a Coach

Wayne Hart and Karen Kirkland

Executive coaching is all about change—often, developmental change. When you hire a coach, you set in motion a process for effecting that change. The elements of a coaching engagement are ongoing assessment, challenge, and support. You may think that those three elements are the responsibility of the coach—after all, they are what the coach is trained and hired to do. But you will get much more benefit from coaching if you are an active participant in every aspect of the engagement.

The initial phase of a coaching engagement is an assessment—a baseline picture of your current situation and level of skills. This assessment might be designed to ...

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