Why Coaching And Mediation…
Let’s first understand what Executive Coaching and Executive Mediation is…
As one advanced in a corporate or entrepreneurial setting the competition becomes intense with increasingly fierce and capable competitors. Moreover, eventually you reach the level where your peers become your competitors, your support network evaporates, your decisions have monumental impact, and you effectively are isolated. At this level plotting a course for advancement and being comfortable with the measures that necessarily must be taken as you walk the path becomes tremendously difficult and the risk of your performance not only plateauing or deteriorating goes up exponentially. The purpose of the Executive Coach is to help you plot the course and being comfortable with the decisions that underlie execution. To be clear… An Executive Coach is not a life coach, but rather a coach to help you navigate challenges encountered by senior executives.
As we work closely with peers, partners, family members and colleagues and our collaboration leads to increased wealth and potential for wealth, controversy will arise and must be resolved. Resolution of controversy through conflict is generally ineffective, slow, expensive and hugely inefficient and may cause a deterioration of the very asset that is at the center of the controversy. Experienced professionals and high net worth individuals understand this and seek non-kinetic solutions to the controversies, but are frequently hampered by an inability or unwillingness to fully understand the counter-parties’ point of view principally because of inertia and accumulated history. The Executive Mediator is a facilitator who is capable of understanding the nuances of the matter at hand and in an effective and efficient way navigating the parties to a mutually agreeable solution. To be clear… An Executive Mediators is not an arbitrator, judge, or advocate, but rather a facilitator helping two parties exchange information, understand each other, and reach a mutually agreeable resolution.
Now let’s put it together…
The disciplines required in Executive Coaching and Executive Mediation are the same: Experience and know-how about the dynamics that professionals and high net worth individuals encounter, empathy, ability to listen, authority and certainty, and critically, objectivity and the willingness to flush out the inhibitors that are normally considered sacrosanct. Additionally, both coaching and mediation are sustained exercises that requires the full commitment of the participants; are highly confidential; and are voluntary.
Your Coach and Your Mediator
Per Jacobsen
Executive Veteran