{"id":3221,"date":"2012-02-06T06:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2022-09-13T19:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:25:34","slug":"executive-coaching-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/executive-coaching-a-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Coaching &#8211; A Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens in an executive coaching session?\u00a0 Of course each session is unique and is based on what the client chooses to address.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/resources\/faqs\/is-coaching-right-for-me-take-the-quiz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coaches<\/a> are engaged to address derailing behavior 12% of the time \u2013 here is a representation of what might occur.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coach: <\/em>\u00a0What do you want to focus on now?<\/p>\n<p><em>Client:<\/em> Well, the biggest complaint I am getting is that people think I am too demanding and I think I need to get a handle on it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coach:<\/em> What do you think is behind the complaint or complaints?<\/p>\n<p><em>Client: <\/em>\u00a0Well I really don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is self-limiting because it stops the thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Coach: <\/em>\u00a0If you did know, what do you think it could be?<\/p>\n<p><em>Client: <\/em>\u00a0Well, I am the manager and so it is my job to make sure they get things done.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coach: <\/em>\u00a0What else?<\/p>\n<p><em>Client: <\/em>\u00a0The office is busy and sometimes I just don\u2019t have the time to talk nice with everyone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coach: <\/em>\u00a0What else is happening?<\/p>\n<p><em>Client: <\/em>\u00a0I just don\u2019t know \u2013 that\u2019s all I got.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coach: <\/em>\u00a0OK, thanks.\u00a0 Describe a typical conversation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Client: <\/em>\u00a0Well, someone might come in and tell me about a problem they are having getting our delivery from a vendor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coach: \u00a0<\/em>Then what happens?<\/p>\n<p><em>Client: <\/em>\u00a0I just tell them to tell the vendor to make it happen or lose our business.\u00a0 I guess I am probably mad about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now the client is beginning to figure it out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After continuing the conversation to explore what is happening and the options, the executive coach focuses on strategy and planning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The blog post on Wednesday provides an example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens in an executive coaching session?\u00a0 Of course each session is unique and is based on what the client chooses to address.\u00a0 Coaches are &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[91,45,55,81,88,89,87],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-stories","tag-business-coach","tag-coaches","tag-coaching-services","tag-coaching-success","tag-effective-coaching","tag-executive-coach","tag-professional-coach","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10527,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/10527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}