{"id":5640,"date":"2024-06-13T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2024-05-30T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:45:33","slug":"should-you-find-a-business-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=5640","title":{"rendered":"Should you find a business coach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Does this resonate with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CEO position can be a lonely place, especially when you find yourself in a position of<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5642\" src=\"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lonely-CEO-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lonely-CEO-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lonely-CEO.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> not being able to bring an issue directly to the board and not wanting to explore solutions with associates within the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sign of weakness?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This sometimes happens when a person is unwilling to admit a weakness in an area that is critical, such as analysis of financial statements, or when unhappy with the actions of your board or with pay offers by the board\u2019s compensation committee that cannot be resolved amicably.\u00a0 Having an experienced coach, usually acting informally and not for any kind of pay, is a safety valve that cannot be understated when in times of great stress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some possible coaches in your present sphere\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>[Email readers, continue here&#8230;]\u00a0<\/em> <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Sometimes that coach is a member of the board willing to listen and make suggestions off the record.\u00a0 And often that is good enough.\u00a0 In my experience, there are times when a CEO needs a completely neutral third party or a roundtable of fellow CEO\u2019s to help guide him through a difficult maze.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a suggestion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Develop relationships with fellow CEO\u2019s in non-competing businesses for a start. Perhaps even formalize the relationship with regular lunch meetings or meetings in groups of CEO\u2019s to discuss personal issues without fear of the discussion leaking outside closed doors.<\/p>\n<h5><em>Image created with Microsoft Designer (OpenAI) using prompt: A photorealistic image of a male CEO sitting at an office desk, looking lonely and alone. Image should have soft edges. Desk should be loaded high with papers in the inbox tray.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this resonate with you? The CEO position can be a lonely place, especially when you find yourself in a position of not being able to bring an issue directly to the board and not wanting to explore solutions with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=5640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depending-upon-others","category-surrounding-yourself-with-talent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}