Executive Coaches Move You From Knowing to Doing
By Cord Harper, CEO of Endeavor Agency
Executive coaches provide many benefits to clients engaged in a job search. One of those benefits includes moving clients from simply knowing what they should do into the active phase of doing.
When a new client reads through materials we share regarding the necessary steps in a job search, they will often say, “I already know most of this stuff.” Yes, but do you do it? At Endeavor, we have found there is a big difference between knowing and doing.
If you find yourself knowing what you should do but just not doing it, a coach can help. Having a coach as an accountability partner can bring awareness of what’s keeping you from success, such as excuses or a lack of information. As you move through the gap, your coach will be a great motivator and your biggest advocate.
IDENTIFYING BLIND SPOTS IN EXECUTIVE COACHING
Executive coaches help clients explore blind spots and inner stumbling blocks in a job search. Once an individual understands the inner hurdle that is keeping him from moving forward, they can plot their own steps to reduce or eliminate the barriers. A skilled and trained executive coach knows how to ask the right questions for us to uncover our barriers, identify tools and techniques to overcome them, and guide us through them.
It rarely works for anyone to be told what to do by others. At best, we comply with these directives but for a short time and then go back to our old ways. Longer lasting and stronger results occur when we individually uncover the issues and craft our own solutions. We own the problem. We make stronger commitments to the solutions we devise. Working with a trained coach can help us reach the solutions faster and more effectively.
About Endeavor Agency
Endeavor Agency is the nation’s leading company helping individual executives, VPs, senior managers, professionals, and physicians find the jobs they truly want. Our additional resources, expertise, and career change specialists help our clients uncover more and better job opportunities than what they could access on their own.
Endeavor Agency helps rebrand clients to effectively communicate their value throughout the interview process and increase their odds dramatically of winning offers. Additionally, Endeavor Agency helps clients achieve better results in negotiating the terms of their employment agreements.
Endeavor Agency also provides executive coaching, outplacement services, and business consulting services. Endeavor can also help guide executives focused on the private equity and venture capital market segments.
