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What is the Difference between Executive Coaches and Business Coaches?

Executive coaches overlap with, yet differ from, business coaches.

Both disciplines focus on getting results in organizations, recruiting and developing talent, building teams, and achieving extraordinary results.

However, the business coaching client primarily needs to create a viable business that runs without him or her. The owner probably runs a simpler operation with fewer resources than the executive coaching client. Also, the owner doesn’t have the level of business sophistication or education of the typical executive, or require the top-level experience of an Executive Coach.

There are also differences between Executive Coaches and consultants. Generally, consulting is a more in-depth and lengthy process than coaching.

Consulting involves diagnosing an organizational problem, conducting analyses, and solving problems on behalf of the client.  Most consultants provide coaching as part of their engagement, especially when they present findings one-on-one to their client and help the client confront the need for change and how to make change.  Similarly, many Executive Coaches do some consulting, for instance when they conduct research to understand whether an executive team is aligned, or when they assess a company’s leadership development process.  However, Executive Coaches for the most part require the client to conduct their own research, draw their own conclusions, and set their own path.  Executive Coaches ask powerful questions, make suggestions and observations when appropriate, provide tools, and lead the client towards a successful course of action and improvement.

Can Executive Coaching provide leadership to your business?

It can if:

  • You’re looking to sharpen skills of employees
  • You’re looking to manage business better and achieve better results
  • You’re looking to work less hours but get better business results

In short, Executive Coaches will:

  • Provide training in how to handle conflict better and how to be a better leader
  • Provide coaching in all aspects of business, such as management, sales and marketing, and how to manage these business departments to achieve a bigger bottom line

Think about it like this: an Executive Coach is very similar to a sporting coach. A sporting coach will make you run more laps than you feel like. They’ll tell it like it is. And they will listen.

Executive Coaches will make you do more than you feel like. Executive Coaches tell it like it is. And Executive Coaches will listen.

Find out more that an Executive Coach can do for you:

Other information on executive coaching:
Why an Executive Would Hire an Executive Coach?
Why do I need ActionCOACH Executive Coaching?



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