The Dubai job market has been extremely growing over the last decades. Great leaders from all over the world, who are qualified, professionally trained with a high level of required skills, make everyday tough decisions investing funds, leading people, and managing businesses working in construction, finance, energy, cleantech, engineering, wealth management, education, healthcare, IT, and technology.
Research suggests that Executive coaching, as one of the leadership strategies needed to help in staying focused and productive, is considered the best competitive advantage for them.
What are the factors that coaching, as an approach, really drives senior leaders’ efficiency?
The main focus is that the coaching techniques used by executive coaches working with senior managers at a strategic level help to develop and excel:Â
- FeedforwardÂ
- Strategic thinking
- Leadership behaviour
- Authentic leadershipÂ
- Cultural Intelligence
Feedforward
The feedforward model is focused on developing forward-focused vision and shaping individual effective behaviour, helping leaders to shift their attention from what was done wrong to what would make a positive difference.  It is not about long-term analysis of past mistakes. It is about finding the right future strategies in order to achieve goals.
It is worth mentioning that the feedforward approach empowers individuals to go through the evolution of stages of mature awareness with no inner judgment, hesitation, or excessive self-criticism. It really elevates leadership.
Strategic thinking
Strategic thinking tools used by executive coaches help leaders make high-risk decisions to set clear long-term goals at the strategic level. Strategic thinking is well associated with a holistic vision, analytical thinking, critical thinking, and having foresight.
Meanwhile, coaches also assist senior leaders in setting top priorities, being quite clear with strategic, tactical, and operational business goals.
This approach is quite priceless as it allows individuals holding high-ranking positions within an organization to be specific in high-level decisions and to translate strategies into actionable steps in order to measure tangible and intangible specific results on the organizational level. The effects and benefits are quite valuable, having an impact on revenue growth.Â
Leadership behaviour
Leadership behaviour is one of the key topics that business schools, training, and leadership companies usually concentrate on. Their programmes are designed to impart the required leadership skills and/or develop the abilities of people in charge to lead others. Â
All over the world, the leadership behaviour implies:
- Leading by example
- Empowering others
- Providing constructive feedbackÂ
- Shaping the work environment
- Effective communication
- Delegation
- Decision makingÂ
The executive coaching techniques used by qualified coaches help individuals to become and stay true leaders in practice on different stages of their personal development and in different contexts of uncertainty.
This coaching approach is not about theories; it is about intentionally shaping routines and habits, cultivating thoughts and refining thinking, understanding feelings, and healthily managing emotions on a day-to-day basis.
The particular significance is that an executive coach assists senior leaders in keeping their clear focus on a role and functions, especially leaders in transition who need to stop doing something, which is a great challenge, to take new level-up responsibilities.
And the benefits of such a deep coaching journey have a huge impact on the leaders’ efficiency and performance in business.
Authentic leadership
If people in charge want to lead and achieve extraordinary results, they have to boost their strengths and level of confidence in order to be bold enough to adapt to unpredictable changes, especially in challenging or rapidly developing situations.
Executive coaches do help senior managers to improve individual performance, evaluate their leadership potential, and develop their authentic leadership style in real life.
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Cultural Intelligence
Dubai is recognized as a global business hub that attracts businesses and investors from all over the world to create a dynamic environment for growth.
For leaders managing people in diverse cultural contexts of the globalized world, the ability to function efficiently is crucially important.
Their cultural sensitivity and adaptability to communicate, facing challenges of intercultural interactions, need to be increased in practice, sharpening key competencies.
In contrast to the training programmes, an executive coach uses transformative tools working on the leader’s level: behaviour, habits, and thoughts.
As a result, a leader with a developed competence of cultural intelligence empowers people to reduce miscommunication, abide by ethics, build trust and respect, which leads to monetizing time, efforts, and saving costs.
In addition to Executive Coaching, MINDS Coaching and Consulting also highlights the value of Relocation Coaching Services and Career Coaching Services in the Dubai Job Market. Leadership is a transformative journey. And the art of true leadership is always rewarded.
