EP31: When to Get Executive Coaching and Why it Matters

How do you know when it's time to get an executive coach? In this episode of Management in Minutes, Charles Evans, a certified executive and leadership coach, answers from both sides of the relationship: as someone who has coached leaders and someone who has been coached himself. Charles breaks down what coaching actually is by contrasting it with the modalities people often confuse it for: therapy, which looks backward; mentoring, which hands you a template based on someone else's experience; and consulting, which does the work for you. Coaching starts with where you are now and helps you build your own leadership square, something that can't be borrowed or read about, only built through practice, feedback, and accountability. This episode covers when coaching matters most across a career, from the first season of new management to moments of strategic uncertainty, major transitions, and operationalizing personal or professional change, backed by verified data on coaching ROI, including why the earliest window of a leadership role is when coaching returns are highest. #LeadOnPurpose