Executive Coach

Once upon a time people lived in a tribal society, in small villages, tiny towns where everybody knew everybody. It wasn’t always ideal, but it did have one clear advantage; every person was an entity, someone. The neighbors knew him by name, knew who he or she is, knew something about the family, the history [...]

Happy 2010! May it be a successful year for you and all those you care for. For me, this year is starting with a wonderful gift; My new book “Rapid Executive Coaching” is finally out in the stores. What is Rapid Executive Coaching? It is a novel approach based upon the understanding that in today’s [...]

Managers of all levels all need to manage their teams. The classic solution to this challenge is based upon the idea that there is one best way to do the job, and therefore it is the manager’s role to identify it, formalize it in a procedure or instruction, train his team on it and enforce [...]

Executives and managers like to be able to measure their results and assess the validity of their investments. This is why it is always good for an executive coach to demonstrate his added value by quantifiable measurements. Actually, this is true for any type of coaching, though maybe not all clients are aware enough to [...]

It is not immediately apparent that executive coaching is partially a seasonal business, but the fact is that the executives and managers we coach go on vacations, as sometimes do their entire organizations. The Holiday seasons, and especially the summer vacation, are the two major seasonal impacts on the coaching business. and epecially the executive [...]

Power Questions are one of the most effective tools in the coache’s arsenal. Learn what they are and how to use them.

Coaches are emphatic by nature. We couldn’t be good coaches if we weren’t tuned to other people’s feelings. So being emphatic is usually perceived as a good thing fo a coach. But is this always good to be emphatic? Generally speaking, coaches suck at sales. I attribute this to the very same empathy that we [...]