At the early stages of one’s career, a Career Coach can be instrumental in helping one identify the type of position and industry that is appealing. The Coach will use assessment tools or other practices to focus on important values and priorities. Our background, experiences, and personalities all affect our choices. If uncertain of your career preference, a Career Coach can help you decipher careers that could be for you. Through exploring the different careers and possibly shadowing people in those positions, you may determine your particular choice. Assessments can sometimes be helpful as well. Once a choice of careers is made, next is the need to develop your skills in order to excel in that position. The selection of an effective Executive Coach can continue to help you excel in your chosen career path.

Coaching can also be used when an employee is struggling with negative performance or techniques that negatively impact any outcome of his/her work efforts. For those employees who sincerely value their position with a company and want to succeed, a coach can help them overcome their challenges and rise above them. Usually the supervisor is the one to decide whether to offer an employee coaching. If the employee seems sincere in doing his/her best for their employer AND he/she possess the appropriate skills, a Coach can be instrumental in helping the employee to improve his/her efforts, resulting in positive progress.

However, if the employee possesses a negative mindset and/or is not interested in improving his/her skills, etc., the Coach will conclude that it is probably time to release the employee – OR offer them a position elsewhere in the company, which would be a better fit.

EXECUTIVE COACHING is a strong program within Compass Career Management Solutions. We have been very selective in order to have appropriate and professional people to match with specific individual candidates. Personalities are an important factor in the effectiveness of coaching. Another very important factor is for the individual candidate to be open and receptive to a professional coach. If not, it is a waste of time and effort.

A Coaching Program requires a three month commitment (minimum). The Coaching program begins with an introduction. If there is a personality clash, this should be noted immediately. With the first meeting a commitment between the candidate and coach is a necessity. Goals should be set in place. Of course, when the company is hiring the coach, the decision maker is also included in the goal setting.  Therefore, the company, individual employee and the coach all should be on the same page. As the third month of coaching begins, an evaluation is noted, with the possibility of additional coaching being one option.