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Executive coaching typically covers a wide range of issues, and some of these are performance-based. So if he were new to a leadership role in an organisation, your managers might suggest or you might think it would be a good idea to arrange a coach to help you work out how to be a better leader. There might be some specific issue that you want to address with your coach like your time management skills, and your coach could work with you to help identify what's going on and how can you solve that behavioural performance issue? But very often, executive coaching sessions do cover issues about career. Career issues are ongoing. It's not the case that people make their career choices when they're 16, 18, or 21, and then stick with that for the rest of their careers. These are decisions that people make on an ongoing basis about which projects to take on, which skills to develop, which courses to have. And then, yes, the choice about staying in an organisation or leaving and going somewhere else. So executive coaching will often encompass issues about career coaching, but career coaching has its place quite separately and independently in the workplace because the workplace is where careers happen and where they unfold. So it makes a lot of sense to have a process that focuses specifically on that as people's careers go on.