Coaching for Top Tier Managers: Maintain Excellence

Climbing the Peak

When you’ve been managing for a while, you get more comfortable in the role and you move up.

Nearer the top, you have to be more directive. It’s more political. You have to be decisive. Your reputation, and your job, can be ruined by one poor decision. 

To cap it all, you’re isolated. It’s unlikely that you can have an open discussion, rehearse your strategies, or reveal your internal process to your peer group. You can feel that you’re on a tightrope, or even climbing with no safety line.

It’s a long way from the relatively comfortable days with the foot soldiers.