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Executive coaching and consulting includes executive mentoring but it's much more than that. And, while CEO executive courses, and especially CEO groups provide extraordinary mentoring, that's not enough to take leadership to its full potential.
It's the combination of mentor, cheerleader, confidante, consummate leadership development experience, and the magic that creates excellence in any professional that yields the best benefits of executive coaching. When good mentoring is leveraged by executive development coaching, it is far more effectively integrated into leadership practices.
It's important not to think of executive leadership development as an add-on. It's integral to the getting to your best success. Executive coaching fees pay off best when the leader has the latitude to risk, to develop vision and to capitalize on his/her own values and those of the people s/he is leading under and over.
Executive coaching consultants don't promise that every session will lead to a successful project because that would create a dynamic of safety trumping vitality, innovation and full engagement. It's in allowing the relationship between the leader and the personal executive coach to ripen over time and in setting objectives that are big enough to allow for unimagined wins that executive development coaching pays off best.
Executive mentoring isn't a substitute for executive coaching and consulting but when executive mentoring is combined with executive coaching consulting, the wins become exponential in terms of market share, share prices, innovation, retention and stakeholder loyalty. It's a winning combination.
