Feel Good is Crucially the Reason we Coach
Met an Executive Coach the other day who expressed a different perspective on Life coaching from how I saw it till then. {A disclaimer at the very outset : I have a stake in both life and executive coaching and my win will surely be if both grow bigger in the individual and organizational consideration-set as immensely valuable, effective and result oriented interventions that can lead to measurable growth and improvement} This senior internal Executive Coach of a leading technology services organization described Life Coaching as ‘feel good’ coaching. Her views on Executive coaching, ( as compared to Life coaching ) was that it is more structured, quantifiable and hence measurable. While the Coaching industry in India goes through its adolescence and tries to rid itself of the image of its intangibility, let’s try understand this better through this very example. Let’s imagine a scenario in the case of this technology services behemoth – How will it be if Executiv...