Feeling sandwiched at work? Use Executive & Leadership Coaching to come out on top

The work throws many situations where we come in conflicting demands or pressures from various sources.

As a leader or executive facing these choices, one may get stuck in thoughts or in a pool of emotions. The result is that either the individual or team performance is compromised or not optimised.

Here are few situations where a coach is of immense help to navigate forward with your best foot forward.

Conflicting Stakeholder Expectations

The demands for leaders today come from various stakeholders. There are both internal and external stakeholders.While managing investor relations, there is a struggle sometimes to talk the language one wants to hear in the streets and ignore the actual ground reality.

A coaching session for the board or the CEO, CFO before going out to public allows them to listen to themselves and understand their own fears and doubts.

Coaching brings about authentic conversation and greater transparency.

Managing Up and Down

The manager of today gets pulled in various directions in the network architecture at work. As a subordinate he needs to take instruction and as a superior he has the responsibility to make his team work for the same.

Often, he finds himself struggling at both ends, especially if he himself is not aligned to the objectives. The result sometimes is an internal struggle and adoption of behaviours which aren't his natural style of leadership.

A coaching session for such HODs allows them to identify their strengths and values and develop their own unique leadership style to manage and deliver the projects.

Coaching is a great developmental tool and helps in alignment of teams.

Optimising Resource Allocation

We work in organizations where there is generally a mismatch between the expectations and resources required to deliver them. Even if someone delivers the given objective, further expectation is to deliver more and better the next time with same or lesser resources.

Budgets are made for achieving a certain target and then slashed with the target held intact.This results in a lot of stress and repressed feelings in the team.

Regular coaching session for executives helps them to acknowledge the feelings and quickly move on to action, finding the best way forward with the resources at hand.

Coaching helps in timely goal delivery with judicious use of resources. Use Executive and Leadership Coaching to build a culture which is focused on both performance and well-being of the team.

It is not bad to be in the middle of things, as long as you know how to come out on top - successful and smiling.

Sunny is founder at Sunny Connect, a firm specialising in curating programs for Conscious Leadership Development and can be reached at coach@sunnyconnect.in