Executive Coaching

The executive coach is an expert in the coaching process.

What's the difference with a consultant?

In a nutshell, a consultant is a specialist from outside an organization who is called in to provide analysis and assistance on a specific problem. A consultant - also known as an adviser or counselor - provides specialized services on organizational or technical subjects: planning, management, organization, human resources and so on. The consultant is recruited to share his expertise (his “trade”, his methodology, his knowledge of a market) with his customer's teams. They deliver ongoing recommendations and advice, based on their own experience. He brings his personal skills to the client company.

The coach does not give advice to his client. He accompanies his client to help him find and implement his own solutions.

According to the International Coaching Federation:

“The coach sees his client as a partner. Together, they determine the objective, the framework and the expected results, while the client remains solely responsible for his or her own objectives. In this sense, the client is the master of content.

The coach is an expert in the coaching process and remains master of the framework. His role as a partner requires him to be in a position to understand his client's professional issues, without being an expert in his client's profession. The coach will ask the right questions, and the client will find the answers”.

The coach's role is therefore to lead a process of exchange and to accompany the customer in discovering the resources at his or her disposal to resolve the obstacle he or she is facing.

Here are the main steps:

● Clarify what the customer wishes to achieve through this coaching, in order to establish a contract based on a specific, measurable objective, fully under his or her control, dated, with result indicators.

● Help the customer to identify his values, needs, operating mode, motivations, capabilities, but also the limiting beliefs that may restrict the exploitation of his full potential. 

● Accompany the customer in discovering other “angles of view” so that he or she can approach his or her problem in a different way.

● Help the customer to bring out the full range of options and solutions available to him/her.

● Engage the customer in change, supporting him/her in formalizing the actions he/she has decided to implement to achieve his/her objective in full autonomy!

The coach shares feedback with his client when, during the exchange, he perceives a doubt, a sticking point, an emotion or an awareness. This is done in a benevolent way, to “shake up” the problem and not the coachee, to help the latter make progress in resolving his or her difficulty.

Session content is confidential.

Coaching services can be offered to any client - professional or private - as long as the request falls within the coach's field of competence.

The executive coach cannot offer support for issues for which he/she is not qualified (health, therapy, etc.).

The coach reserves the right to terminate the coaching relationship if the client's expectations or attitudes do not allow the coaching process to run smoothly.

As an executive coach, the coach constantly pursues personal development and maintains an active relationship with the coaching community (association, working groups).

Julie R.Pugeat

August 26th, 2024