Employees everywhere are exhausted and completely empty. That old saying, “You can’t pour from an empty cup,” is hitting the American workforce hard. Workloads have increased, hours are longer leaving less time to spend with family and rest, and understaffing leaves you feeling guilty for taking needed time off. Even senior leadership is feeling the heaviness of burdens.

This can easily take you from fired up to burned out about your job. How do you recharge and get yourself back to your personal and professional best? Enter executive coaching.

What is executive coaching?

Coaching is a partnership between a client and a coach working together in order to provide a thought provoking and creative process to help inspire the client to fully reach their professional and personal potential. Coaching is different from counseling, consulting, or training because it is client driven.

Executive coaching is an executive coach meeting one-on-one with the senior leadership (president, director, vice president, or other C-suite members) of an organization. It aids the executive themself to better themself personally and professionally. By achieving this, it allows them to better help and encourage others to also learn and grow.

What are the benefits of executive coaching?

The benefits of executive coaching can vary depending on the leader seeking the help of an executive coach. Potential benefits of executive coaching can include:

Efficacy of leadership improvement.

Goal achievement acceleration.

Productivity increases.

Weakness can be overcome and strengths can be maximized.

Confidence enhancement.

Empathy improvement.

Leadership burnout identified and reduced which can lead to better help for their team.

Innovation and collaboration improvement.

How an executive coach can help reignite your spark

There is a big difference between being exhausted by your work and exhausted by passion fueled work. As a C-suite executive, you have to reach your full potential personally and professionally before you can help your team do the same. How can you achieve this? Reigniting your spark with the help of your executive coach may look like:

Reconnecting with your passion — what initially made you take your job and fall in love with it? Looking back to the beginning may help you get back in touch with your passion and reignite your spark for your work.

Reconnect with your time — Feeling burned out could be due to your schedule dictating your life instead of you controlling your time. Look at your schedule and find your priorities. Make them non-negotiable. Retaking control of your schedule can quickly take you from burnout to fired up when you have your priorities to look forward to.

How an executive coach can help you reignite the spark of your team

The post-COVID-19 world has brought burnout in the workplace to everyone’s notice. Not all hope is lost. It is possible to reignite your spark and the spark of our employees. This can take everyone from burned out back to fired up. Your executive coach can help you bounce around ideas that will best benefit you and your team. Some reigniting ideas may look like:

Avoiding meaningless work in your employees’ responsibilities — Respect their time. Instead of unnecessary meetings, send any new details via email. When meetings are necessary, keep your team engaged to help keep them focused. Don’t add work for the sake of work to their workload. Make their work meaningful.

Stay connected with your team — Check in and touch base with your team. Knowing you care can help your team feel important to the work you do. When people feel valued, their performance is better and they’re less likely to leave.

Understand and use your team’s passions — Use your team's strengths and passions . This can allow your team to be better engaged.

Celebrate small wins — recognising and praising accomplishments of any size can be a needed morale boost. Hearing you’re appreciated can help reignite your spark.

Ask what can be improved — this may involve some swallowing of pride, by asking your team how things can improve could be the best move you’ll ever make. Changing and adapting doesn’t always have to be a bad thing.

Executive coaching can take you and your team from burnout to fired up

Life is complicated and messy. When it comes to mental health, we believe there’s no one-size-fits-all. At Halcyon Therapy Group, we understand just how important you and your unique situation and perspectives are. That’s why we offer a suite of services tailored specifically to you and your needs. You deserve better, and we are here to help. Book your complimentary consultation today and start living the life you always dreamed of.