7 Tools and Resources that Enhance Executive Coaching Effectiveness
This article delves into cutting-edge tools and resources that are transforming executive coaching, featuring expert insights that unveil how leaders can maximize their potential. From AI-driven note-taking to reprogramming limiting beliefs, each tool is dissected to reveal its core benefits for personal and professional growth. Discover the strategies that top executives are using to enhance their effectiveness and drive sustainable business success.
- AI Notetaker Enhances Coaching Presence
- PSYCH-K Reprograms Limiting Beliefs
- CliftonStrengths Assessment Reveals Leadership DNA
- Relationship Mapping Worksheet Boosts Career Growth
- Systems Thinking Creates Sustainable Business Solutions
- Gene Keys Unlock Sacred Soul Plan
- Reflective Questioning Drives Executive Self-Discovery
AI Notetaker Enhances Coaching Presence
I love my AI notetaker, Fathom. I always ask permission to record, and explain how it works and how I use it, the first time I meet with a client, and so far, no one has objected.
The benefits:
- If I'm focused on taking notes, it's hard to be 100% focused on my client. I may miss something they're saying now, or a facial expression or intonation, because I'm still capturing something they just said. With the notetaker, I can be fully present and listening deeply, with no distractions.
- I end up with three things: a summary, a transcript, and a recording of our session. I use a combination of these to review before our next session. I have an accurate record of topics, action items, things to follow up on--these help me keep myself and my client accountable.
- I can send the recording to the client, along with the summary and transcript. Clients are usually grateful for it. It's so helpful to be able to review the recording days or weeks after the session; it offers another perspective and opportunity for reflection when you watch yourself and listen to the conversation from a different place (emotionally and temporally, at least).
In specific contexts--preparing for an upcoming interview or speaking engagement, for example--watching themselves afterward can be a game-changer for clients. I've conducted a lot of mock interviews and run-throughs of talks; it's so much more effective with video. We don't often have the chance to see ourselves as our audience or interviewer does.
I understand that there are privacy concerns with AI. I don't share anything with anyone but my client, and clients have been thrilled that they have something concrete and accurate to review and reflect on whenever, and as often as, they like. My Fathom notetaker has been an invaluable tool.
PSYCH-K Reprograms Limiting Beliefs
One tool I can't live without in my executive coaching is PSYCH-K(r). It's a proven method to help clients reprogram limiting beliefs that are stuck in their subconscious. Most of the women I work with are high achievers, but they feel burned out or lost. This tool helps them shift from self-doubt to confidence. It makes coaching go deeper than just talking about goals. Clients feel freer, calmer, and more connected to who they really are. After using it, they start seeing real changes in their life and leadership. It's a game-changer for long-term success, not just quick fixes.
CliftonStrengths Assessment Reveals Leadership DNA
The resource I find most invaluable is the Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment. Leaders who learn and lean into their Top 10 Strengths supercharge their communication, relationships, and leadership effectiveness. Understanding the unique complexity of one's Strengths (or Superpowers, as I refer to them) is critical in knowing what levers to pull in individualized situations. Understanding why they've been successful in the past and understanding where they are best served in filling the areas of gap allow leaders the freedom to lead from a place of strength and confidence.
Using the Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment provides both the client and the coach a shortcut into the leader's leadership DNA. Using Strengths as the lens to frame and conduct coaching conversations affords us a vocabulary that we can consistently return to and a place in which to anchor the leader's development. I recommend this assessment and spend significant time discussing it with the bulk of my clients. It's always spot on and the insight it provides is transformative for my leaders.
Relationship Mapping Worksheet Boosts Career Growth
One really simple tool clients have found extremely effective for getting to the next level (raise, promotion) is my Relationship Mapping Worksheet.
It's really simple, anyone can do it. Here are the steps.
1. You make a list of the key decision makers who decide your future at the company.
2. You make a list of the people who influence them.
3. You list each person's goals and pain points at the company level, department/team level, and personal level.
4. You figure out little ways you can help them and improve your relationships with them.
It's really important to go 3 layers out (decision makers, the people who influence them, and the people who influence the 2nd layer).
That's because you want to plant lots of little seeds, so people are talking positively about you in rooms you're not in.
Systems Thinking Creates Sustainable Business Solutions
One tool I find invaluable in my executive coaching practice is systems thinking. Many leaders struggle because they approach challenges in isolation rather than seeing how everything is interconnected. By applying systems thinking, you can identify inefficiencies, streamline operations, and create repeatable processes that lead to sustainable growth.
This tool enhances my coaching by shifting my clients from reactive problem-solving to proactive strategy. Instead of constantly putting out fires, they develop structured, scalable solutions that free up their time and allow them to focus on high-impact leadership. Systems thinking transforms businesses from chaotic and dependent on the owner to efficient, profitable, and self-sustaining.
Gene Keys Unlock Sacred Soul Plan
The Gene Keys are a brilliant system of Living Wisdom. This is my go-to to really understand my clients at a complex level of psychology and spirituality mixed together.
My interpretation is that they provide a mystical and practical way for us to see an actual map of our Sacred Soul Plan. Everyone has a Sacred Soul Plan, which is my fancy way of saying your spiritual curriculum. It's life's learning journey, which lays the foundation for your deepest personal growth and evolution.
I define your Sacred Soul Plan as:
The unique spiritual curriculum designed specifically for your journey by your soul.
The core life lessons and patterns that keep appearing and inviting your growth.
The deeper purpose behind your challenges and triumphs.
Your soul's roadmap for awakening and evolution.
Your Sacred Soul Plan is your spiritual DNA - the unique blueprint held in your Sacred Soul Signature that shapes your journey of awakening. It contains the divine unfolding of the experiences, relationships, challenges, and gifts that catalyze your deepest transformation.
What I love so much about the Gene Keys is that they offer a laser beam of light directly into YOUR personal plan. I'm talking specifics. The system was created by mystic and poet Richard Rudd and marries the ancient wisdom of the I Ching, Astrology, and Human Design to reveal the code hidden in your DNA. It's fascinating, right?
AND, it can be a little bit of a rabbit hole!
As I've been deeply obsessed with this Living Wisdom for a while now, I recently became a guide so that I could deepen my own awareness and understand all of it at an even deeper level. With that came my higher intention for supporting my clients in helping them see and understand their soul's plan!
If you feel called to explore your Hologenetic Profile, you can access it directly on the Gene Keys site. And, if you want to sit with someone who can hold the light on your map and guide you through your own deeper understanding of your Sacred Soul Plan, you can schedule a session with me.
Let me guide you to change the way you see yourself and your potential in the world.
Reflective Questioning Drives Executive Self-Discovery
One invaluable resource in my executive coaching practice is the art of reflective questioning. It's not a tangible tool, like a software program or a specific assessment, but rather a technique that enhances the entire coaching process. Here's what you need to know: it's about crafting questions that encourage deep introspection and self-discovery. These aren't your typical 'yes' or 'no' questions. Instead, they prompt executives to examine their beliefs, assumptions, and behaviors.
This approach moves beyond surface-level issues and delves into the core of what drives a leader. By asking thoughtful, open-ended questions, I help executives gain clarity, identify blind spots, and develop new perspectives. This method empowers them to find their own solutions, fostering greater ownership and accountability. It's in those moments of reflection that true transformation occurs, making reflective questioning an indispensable part of my coaching toolkit.
