Take this quick quiz to determine if you are ready to engage with an executive coach and take your game to the next level. An executive coach can help you better define your long-term and short-term strategy, align, motivate, and engage your teams and allow you to be a more effective leader. Great leadership increases your entire return on payroll.
The most successful people in sports and business all take advantage of coaches to bring their skills to the next level. In many cases, these coaches are not as visionary, talented, or skilled as the people they coach, but what they bring is experience, successful patterns, an unbiased outside perspective, and a desire to help the individual grow and improve their performance and effectiveness to be the best version of themselves they can be.
I recommend you carefully interview your potential coach to determine if they will help you meet your future goals. The chemistry needs to be right, and you should feel completely open and can be yourself with the coach and answer the challenging questions honestly. This does not happen overnight and requires some faith and trust on both sides. I suggest committing to at least a quarter to determine if the fit is right (unless you are meeting more frequently than monthly or bi-monthly, in which case you will know sooner).
I have had the privilege to coach many business owners the past 30 years or so while also engaging coaches to work with me to bring my “A” game to the situation. If you have not worked with a coach in past and answered "yes" to a few of the questions above, I suggest you act and begin looking for the right coach. 2021 just might be your best year to date if you do.
Good luck and please let me know your thoughts. Alan
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Rhythm Systems is based in Charlotte, NC, and provides executive coaching in Charlotte, NC and across the United States with our team of experts that have worked with hundreds of clients, many backed by private equity.