4 Evaluating Internal Coaching Candidates

Along with being your company’s CEO, you may get to have another great job. You may get to be the coach for your company’s next CEO! Even if you hire an external coach to help out, you can and should be involved and help ensure the success of the coaching process.

Being a CEO Coach

I have spent more than thirty years coaching executives—and I love it! There is no reason that you shouldn’t enjoy your role as the coach for a future CEO as much as I do. Given your experience as a CEO and your unique perspective on the company, I also believe that, in many ways, you can be an even more effective coach for your successor than I can.

Let me share the highlights of what I have learned about behavioral coaching ...

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