This was down to 24 years in 2016 and is expected to shrink to a mere 12 years by 2027. This is just one indicator of the rapid and constant change we can expect to experience, and currently experience, in our lives that significantly impacts our work and culture.What is your organization doing to keep pace?

Most of us are good at solving problems. We dole out advice like, Let me lay this out for you. First, you need to. . . . This sort of direction can be helpful, for instance, when someone is trying something for the first time.

The process of executive coaching is a formal engagement in which executive coaches work with their clients in a series of confidential and dynamic meetings designed to establish and achieve clear goals. Most coaching certification programs teach a 4-step process of assessment that encompasses assessment, goal setting, accomplishing goals, and final review.

This is the first in a five-part series that describes how managers can coach people to practice genuine collaboration in the workplace. However, if we believe that culture is a pattern of basic assumptions invented, discovered by, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems (as described by Edgar Schein), we must acknowledge that culture is critical to collaboration.

Embrace the Power of Executive CoachingAs businesses become more complex, they tend to lean on their high performers to fend off competitors, innovate, and pivot to unexplored markets. But who do these executives and leaders turn to when they need to refine their own skills?Executive coaches.

Calculating the ROI associated with executive coaching can be difficult. The executive had consistently exceeded his sales quota by 200 percent and had landed key marquee Fortune 500 customers.

The key to reaping the full benefits of executive coaching is to secure company-wide buy-in and commitment. The applications of executive coaching are far-reaching its critical to understand how different organizational stakeholders are likely to reap the greatest benefits.

Even modest improvements can justify hiring a coach. An investment of $30,000 or so in an executive who has responsibility for tens of millions of dollars is a rounding error. Jerome Abarbanel, VP of Executive Resources, CitibankThe demand for executive coaching has experienced rapid growth.

Providing one-on-one executive coaching is an expensive yet potentially powerful part of a leadership development strategy. Assuming you have a solid strategy in place, there are some things that the leader participating in the coaching must also bring to the table.In my experience over the yearsboth as someone setting up and running executive coaching in large organizations and as an executive coach to hundreds of executivesthe readiness of the leader being coached is an integral part of success.

Coaching to bring out the whole person. According to Kevin Cashman, Korn Ferrys global leader of CEO and executive development, and author of Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life, As careers advance, sorting out personal, team, and marketplace complexities is greatly enhanced by coaching versus training.

Executive coaching has gained popularity in the past decade as an integral part of the talent management strategy in many organizations. Because it is one-on-one and tailored to the individual, coaching is often used to prepare leaders for roles of increased executive responsibility or as a support mechanism as they transition into these roles.Simply offering executive coaching to leaders and hiring and assigning either an internal or external coach to work with your leaders may not yield the results you seek.

A majority of leaders report that executive coaching efforts in their organizations are effective, according to the 9th annual executive coaching survey from Sherpa Executive Coaching. Fifty-eight (58) percent describe results from coaching as excellent, and more than 40 percent describe results as good.