Ongig founder Rob Kelly interviews Irontree President Regan Bach regarding the current trends, challenges, and strengths of executive coaching. Regan shares the Top 4 most frequent issues/challenges he faces with clients (see below), plus lots of other fun stuff! Full interview here.
Here’s a Quick Hit Top 4 list:
1) Vision/Strategy/Execution
Whether it be for CEOs or new managers, setting a clear vision for yourself and your team is mission critical. From there it’s all about articulating that vision to others, identifying an “actionable” strategy to execute on the vision, mitigating roadblocks, and tweaking the roadmap/trajectory given internal and external inputs over time.
I help leaders to a) get very clear on strengths and areas of opportunity to improve and b) articulate personal/team/company vision, and c) help identify action steps to begin executing on a trajectory for success.
2) Going Slow to Go Fast
In today’s fast pace work environments, leaders jump from task to task, project to project, and large-scale initiative to initiative. Rarely do they take time to slow down, unplug, assess the Big Picture, and reflect on what’s working, what’s not working, and what they want to do DIFFERENT moving forward.
I act as a forcing function to help support leaders in unplugging, assessing themselves and their environments, and then identifying areas that need their attention. What’s critical is helping today’s leaders not only identify where to show up, but also how to show up.
3) Influencing
This is an area where almost everyone can improve. I have found that individuals, regardless of title, greatly underestimate (and thus under-utilize), their ability to influence others.
I spend a great deal of time working with clients to help identify effective and efficient ways to influence both vertically and horizontally throughout an organization.
4) Feedback/Communication and Relationship-Building
As I mentioned earlier, organizations exist because humans create them. Thus, many leaders continually struggle and are challenged by behavioral and/or human-centric issues.
At the core, it’s all about communication and relationships. I help leaders create clear lines of communication, implement durable feedback loops into their work, and get clear on how and when they message things to others.