The power of having a Chief Executive / Business Owner Mentor Part 2 – Executive coaching prompts effective action

Without Chief Executive mentoring (by this I mean executive coaching offering a guiding hand and great business strategist tips), good performers often start to think that their survival hangs on them performing even better. Fearing failure, they can impose enormous pressure on themselves, their teams and families – and their working and living environments. 

“Constant self pressure may blind them to the things they should be doing such as building good working relationships with subordinates who may succeed them. They can sometimes kill good businesses and their senior teams even while wanting to grow them” stresses the What If Specialist business strategist. 

Everyone needs a mentor with real executive coaching skills and a good understanding of business strategy, whatever position they may have reached. 

A Chief Executive mentor plays the role of a non-executive director, executive coach, business strategist, buffer, collaborator, crisis adviser, facilitator, influencer, lobbyist, messenger, negotiator, publicist, sounding board, strategist, tactician, friend, philosopher and guide. 

The current economic climate notwithstanding, can you afford not to have one?