Becoming Coachable: Unleashing the Power of Executive Coaching to Transform Your Leadership and Life

If irreversible, be more thoughtful and take a bit more time, but still give yourself a deadline to make the final decision.

If decisions are reversible, make a decision very quickly based on limited data and gut instinct.

Coaching is most effective when we work with successful executives who want to be as impactful as they can be.

Unlike other forms of development like therapy, it incorporates a very fast feedback loop, so you will know almost immediately whether something is working.

The qualities you need to be successfully coached—self-awareness, humility, the ability to listen, a hunger for feedback, a commitment to action, and a willingness to be held accountable—are precisely the qualities you need to lead.

“The easy things, they have already done. The medium things, they have already done. The hard things, they have at least tried to do. What’s left is the stuff they don’t know how to do.”

Coachability, as we define it, is about the degree of preparedness a person has to get the most growth and development from the coaching process.

It’s shocking how much easier it is to give each other advice than to follow it!

Growth is a practice, not a project.