Coaching For Executives

As the world becomes increasingly fast-paced and competitive, more and more people are beginning to realise the importance of taking care of their physical, emotional and mental health. In Singapore, wellness coaching is becoming an increasingly popular way to help people improve their overall well-being.

What is Executive Coaching

An ever-increasing number of executives are turning to professional coaching to help them improve their performance. Executive coaching is a process in which trained coaches work with leaders and managers to help enhance their performance in the workplace and reach their goals.

The executive coach acts as a sounding board, providing honest feedback and supporting their clients to develop new mindsets and actionable plans for improvement. The coaching process is tailored to each individual and typically includes a frank assessment of current performance, goal setting, and the development of a new strategy for achieving those goals.

For any executive or leader who is looking to take their performance to the next level, executive coaching is an essential tool.

Executive Coaching in Singapore

Benefits of Executive Coaching

Working with an executive coach is invaluable because you will have a trained professional who is 100% focused on you and your goals. They can help you in many different areas, including leadership development, inter-personal excellence, emotional intelligence, health and well-being, work/life balance and developing a growth mindset.

In addition, an executive coach can provide specific and tailored support when the client is facing a difficult situation or transition in their career. Clients typically report improvements in areas such as:

Improved decision-making

Executive coaching can help you make better decisions by supporting you to clarify your values and priorities.

Enhanced communication skills

Through coaching, you can learn how to communicate more effectively with your team to build relationships, trust and psychological safety.

Greater self-awareness

One of the major benefits of coaching is greater self-awareness. By working with a coach, you can become more aware of your personal strengths, patterns, habits and how they impact all areas of your life, not just your career.

Executive coaching service is a smart investment that can pay off handsomely in terms of increased productivity, greater satisfaction, and enhanced quality of life.

What does an executive coach offer?

Coaching for executives

An executive coach offers a wide range of services designed to help leaders achieve their full potential. One of the most important roles of an executive coach is to help leaders identify their blind spots.

Coaches can also support managers to more effectively manage time and resources and build teams that work well together, while offering support and motivation throughout the client’s career journey.

Coaches will help to provide accountability throughout the goal-setting and implementation process. As a result, executive coaching can be an invaluable tool for anyone looking to take their career to the next level.

By partnering with an executive coach, business professionals can gain the tools and insights they need to reach their full potential.

How does coaching help you achieve success?

As an executive, you are expected to juggle multiple demands and meet high standards – both in your career and in your personal life. Executive coaches are specifically trained to work with executives and other high-level professionals.

Coaches can provide a much-needed sounding board for ideas, offer new perspectives, and support you to make tough decisions. They will help you clarify your goals and identify the steps you need to take to achieve them.

A coach will support you to identify the beliefs that make up the boundaries of your comfort zone and to examine the process and cons of moving outside of it.

With the help of a professional coach, you can reach your goals faster and more effectively – both in your career and in your personal life.

Coaching for executives typically takes place over the course of several months, and it is important to choose a coach who is a good fit for the executive’s personality and goals. A good executive coach will be someone who is not only supportive, but also unafraid to challenge you.

Role of an executive coach

Executive coaches are specifically trained to work with executives and other high-level professionals.

A good executive coach help individuals improve their communication and problem-solving skills, sharpen their decision-making abilities, and better understand themselves.

The coach will work primarily through a process of asking questions and offering feedback and different points of view.

In addition, they can provide a much-needed sounding board for ideas and help leaders learn how to delegate tasks and responsibilities more effectively. Learning to “let-go” is often one of the biggest challenges faced by managers.

The ultimate goal of coaching is to help leaders become more effective in their roles and to help them achieve their career and personal life goals.

What makes a good coach for an executive?

A good executive coach will be able to have their client develop a sense of confidence in themselves and their own abilities. They will work through a combination of asking questions, providing feedback and offering different points of view, in order to stimulate new ways of thinking, feeling and acting.

In addition, a good executive coach will be able to adapt their approach to meet your specific needs. They will be someone who is easy to talk to and empathetic while also being unafraid to be honest with you.

What should you look for when hiring an executive coach in Singapore?

When it comes to executive coaching, Singapore is a hotbed of activity. From start-ups to established businesses, more and more companies are turning to executive coaches to help their employees reach their full potential. But with so many executive coaches to choose from, how do you know which one is right for you?

Here are a few things to look for when hiring an executive coach in Singapore:

By keeping these factors in mind, you can be sure to find an executive coach in Singapore who can help you take your career to the next level.

Why choose our executive coaching services?

TWP have been offering executive coaching for well over 20 years and our coaches are all trained in the Newfield Ontological Coaching methodology, offered by our sister company, The Coach Partnership.

Ontological coaching is seen as the gold-standard coaching methodology, offering as it does,  a focus on the physical, mental and emotional aspects of human performance. Coaching and the production of results is not a purely intellectual enterprise.

TWP have also offered world-class, high impact, self-awareness-driven leadership development programs for over 20 years and all of our coaches are well-versed in this approach. As a result, TWP coaches are a particularly good choice when you are looking to focus on personal and leadership development issues.

TWP have coaches throughout the region and offer coaching in many local languages. Please enquire for more details.

Meet Our Executive Coaches In Singapore

PCC, NBC-HWC & Health Coaching Director - Dr Katrina Gisbert-Tay

Dr Katrina Gisbert-Tay

PCC, NBC-HWC & Health Coaching Director

TWP Health and Wellness initiatives are led by Director of Health Coaching, Dr Katrina Gisbert-Tay. In addition to being a certified Medical Doctor, “Dr Kat” is an ICF-certified executive coach (PCC), Certified Integrative Health Coach with Duke Integrative Medicine and a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC).

Executive Coach & Trainer – Tini Fadzilla

Tini Fadzillah

Founding Partner, Executive Coach & Trainer

Tini Fadzillah is an executive coach and trainer based in Singapore with clients throughout Asia. She specializes in coaching C-suite and senior executives in performance, leadership and change; with a reputation of surfacing and creating sustainable shifts to the underlying conversations needed to unlock a leader’s full potential and drive
results.

Business Development Director & Executive Coach - Clemence Blondel​

Clemence Blondel

Business Development Director & Executive Coach

Clemence began her career in Marketing, Communication and Sales before moving into coaching. In addition to her coaching, Clemence also serves as the TWP Senior Business Development Director. She grew up in France and has been living in Asia for the past 15 years. She is currently based in Singapore, with her husband and 3 children. Coaches in English and French.

Marcus Marsden

Managing Partner And Director of Training

Marcus serves as Managing Partner for both TWP and The Coach Partnership, one of the world’s most esteemed coach training schools, where he is a lead trainer for the Level 2 Newfield Coach Training program. He is an ICF-certified executive coach (PCC) and leadership trainer based in Singapore, with clients throughout Asia. His work is informed by more than 30 years of business and management experience.

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How to prepare for executive coaching?

If you are considering executive coaching, congratulations! You are on your way to becoming your best version of you. But before you jump into coaching sessions, it is important to do your homework and prepare for the experience.

First, take some time to reflect on your goals for coaching. What do you hope to achieve? What areas of your life or work would you like to improve? Be as specific as possible. Executive coaching can be a transformative experience, but it is only effective if you know what you want to work on and why.

Your coach will provide accountability and support throughout the process. By taking the time to prepare for executive coaching, you will set yourself up for success and ensure that you get the most out of the experience.

Here are five key tips to help you get the most out of executive coaching:

How to prepare for coaching session with an executive coach

FAQ

An executive coach can be an invaluable asset for any business leader. Top athletes, sportsmen and women all have coaches. Why would the game of business be any different?

High performers, who are committed to improving further, realise that a good, qualified coach is essential because the coach can observe them as they play their game. However good you are you are at your game, you have blind spots in your physical, mental and approach that it is basically impossible for you to observe for yourself.

A great executive coach will help you see the see the invisible beliefs, habits and patterns that make up your current worldview. Every human being has these, but not every human being wants to become aware of them.

In addition, an executive coach can provide an outside perspective on your challenges and support you to see things from a different angle. However, they will rarely give you advice or tell what you should do.

Deciding what to do and then doing it, is the role of the client, not the coach. This is something that distinguishes coaches from consultants and mentors. Furthermore, executive coaches can provide useful feedback and accountability to help you stay on track.

Hiring an executive coach is an investment in your future.

The duration of executive coaching will vary depending on the needs of the executive being coached. In general, though, executive coaching should last long enough to give time for new practices and habits to become embedded. Typically, this equates to a period of several months of regular coaching sessions.

Some executives may need longer-term coaching, particularly if they are struggling with complex issues or deeply embedded habits and practices in critical areas.

Executive coaching can also be provided in shorter, more intense periods, such as during a leadership development program. 

The majority of executive coaching relationships last between 6 and 12 months, although some may go longer.

Ultimately, the decision of how long to make an executive coaching relationship should be made based on what will be most effective for the executive being coached.

First and foremost, you can expect to work with a trained professional who is 100% committed to you and your goals. This in itself is a major benefit.

You will develop a greater understanding of yourself and your own habits and patterns.

Ultimately, working with an executive coach can help you take your career, or life to a new level.

The majority of initial coaching contracts tend to be for between 6-12 sessions.

You will need to commit to enough sessions to allow for new practices and habits to develop.

The anatomy of a coaching relationship includes declaration of goals, an understanding of current habits, mindsets and attitudes, the development of new practices and then the integration of the new habits into the client’s way of life.

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As an executive, you are expected to juggle multiple demands and meet high standards – both in your career and in your personal life. If you are looking for ways to improve your performance at work, then executive coaching could be the right solution for you.

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    Key Takeaway

    An executive coach can be beneficial to a client in many different areas and in many different ways. For people who are genuinely interested in growth and development, then coaching can be a very powerful modality, because a trained coach can observe you in a way that you will never be able to do for yourself.

    If you are willing to take an honest look at yourself, experience some discomfort, expand your mindset and then take new actions, then coaching just might be for you.

    The Works Partnership Team of Executive Coaches