Leadership coaching is a personalized process designed to help individuals, particularly leaders, enhance their leadership skills, performance, and effectiveness. It typically involves one-on-one sessions with a professional coach who helps the leader identify areas for improvement, set goals, develop strategies, and overcome challenges. In this weeks Video Blog post I talk about some of the key aspects of leadership coaching – what should you be looking for in a Leadership Coach?
What Do You Control?
In my coaching practice I frequently work with clients who, for whatever reason, are chasing their time, schedule, employees or staff, events, projects, you name it… Whatever “IT” may be, it is a distraction and almost every time we drill down on the “challenge”, there is a big component that is out of our control. The client, however, believes they must control it either to be successful, or seen to be successful. The obvious question here is, Why?
The Coaching Profession – A Responsibility to be Professional
The world of coaching is constantly changing and growing. Although there is still some confusion out there about what coaching is really all about, it is becoming better known and accepted as a process that can be of real help to people. Meaningful, tangible results are being generated every day around the world as individuals search for ways to improve how they work, manage, lead, support others, and just plain live.
Leadership is … Understanding Our Followers
One of the fundamentals of great leadership is to be able to connect with your followers, to build trust. My argument is that to do that effectively as leaders we need to first understand our followers, understand what they need and then move towards their style in the way we communicate with them. This ability to be “versatile” is a skill that most of us need to learn and practice.
Believe In Yourself
When we look at ourselves what do we see? De we see great potential? Can we see qualities that are still hidden but ready to emerge? What’s below the surface ready to pounce out? It how you see it isn’t it. How you believe in yourself.