Newsflash: No one person has the answer to all your questions

A CEO Peer Group Allows You to Consult With More Than Just One Coach

What is better - a one-on-one execute coach or a CEO peer group which provides leadership coaching and business mentoring through multiple voices and perspectives on your business issues?

Of course, it will depend on what you prefer - group situations or a one-on-one experience. However, an increasing number of CEOs are turning to peer groups because they recognise that no one person can ever have all the solutions to all of your problems.

CEO Peer groups are so effective in improving CEO performance specifically because every other member of your group will likely have a different angle on the issue you are bringing to the table. Each person will contribute, and together you can come to the best solution - even if it did not originally appear to be the most obvious answer. These groups facilitate innovative problem solving for business at its best.

The other members of your group act as a sounding board for you to help develop ideas. Leadership development coaching is achieved by consulting with people who lead for a living. Members collaborate with each other to solve issues and their ideas are practical—they come from a knowledge base of lived business experience.

You don’t just receive the ‘solutions’ overly based in theory or psychology and not enough in the real world of business, which some coaches will devise for you. The peers in your group know what it is like in the marketplace, and often they know what works and what doesn’t from learning the hard way.

A CEO group allows each of you to learn from the others’ experiences. This provides professional coaching which allows you to acquire practical knowledge that you can apply immediately to your own business.