{"id":1550,"date":"2016-12-06T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:12:35","slug":"study-executive-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/study-executive-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Why study executive coaching? | FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you\u2019re a manager, a consultant, work in a support function, or just feel you have the right skills to be a business coach, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/courses\/za\/uct-executive-and-management-coaching-short-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Cape Town Executive and Management Coaching online short course<\/a><\/strong> is a great way to study executive coaching and kick off your career in the field.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the skills you acquire on this coaching course to improve your management practice, add to your HR skill set, or begin your career as a business or executive coach.<\/p>\n<p>In this short video Dale Williams, Head Tutor on the\u00a0<strong>UCT Executive and Management Coaching online short course<\/strong>, motivates why executive coaching is a great career path.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRLQvaNNkRI\" width=\"990\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Want to apply executive coaching to\u00a0maximise the engagement of your workforce and enhance organisational efficiency?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Study executive coaching with the UCT Executive and Management Coaching online short course.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"related-programme-block\">\n<div class=\"related-programme\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/courses\/za\/uct-executive-and-management-coaching-short-course', '_blank')\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n        <div class=\"col-12 col-md-11\">\n            <div class=\"related-programme__school-logo-container\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/universities\/university-of-cape-town\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"related-programme__school-logo-link\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UCT_logo.png\" alt=\"School Logo\" class=\"related-programme__school-logo\">\n            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"related-programme__copy\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/universities\/university-of-cape-town\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"related-programme__school-name\">\n                University of Cape Town (UCT)            <\/a><br>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/courses\/za\/uct-executive-and-management-coaching-short-course\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"related-programme__programme-name\">\n                Executive and Management Coaching online short course            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-md-1 related-programme__chevron-column\">\n            <div class=\"related-programme__icon-container\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/blog\/assets\/icn_arrow-circle_right.svg\" alt=\"Read More Icon\">\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em style=\"text-align: left;\">Transcription<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Executive coaching generally attracts to it a number of people who come from quite varied backgrounds. So, it could be a manager who wants to incorporate coaching into their management practice; it could be a consultant of sorts which might be HR or OD, or any area of supporting a business through consulting, or it could be somebody who\u2019s wanting to use their experience in some way, and repurpose their skills as an executive coach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Hence, studying coaching allows you to take that background, take the inputs that you\u2019ve had, the experience that you\u2019ve had, and understand how you can use that as an executive coach. It\u2019s not just a matter of because you\u2019ve been good at something, you can coach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Just like some of the best coaches in the sports world are not necessarily the people who\u2019ve played at the highest level &#8211; they\u2019re the people who\u2019ve become executive coaches, you need to study it so that you can repurpose whatever your skills are that you\u2019re bringing to it and take them back into a business in a different way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Learn how to kick off your career in this in-demand field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":17241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,132],"article-format":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-advice","tag-career-advice","tag-executive-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Study Executive Coaching? 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