Leadership Coaching
Leadership coaching helps with better decision making, drives strategy , maximises critical thinking. Coaching for senior leaders at all levels has become a status symbol, the key request in an on boarding package.
Become a leader in whose team or department everyone wants to be in. What is the legacy you choose to leave?
Be the leader who generates the right environment for talent to flourish with the generosity to encourage them to progress. Leadership needs those light bulb moments that unleash vision.
Leadership demands ideas, motivation, teamwork, solutionising. A leader comes in different guises which leadership coaching helps position and brand for successful fulfilment of vision, purpose, goals.
The savvy leader
- will be imagining how leadership needs to step up in this uncertain world in which we currently find ourselves.
- knows that trust is the foundation stone.
- will know their people like the back of their hand using and developing 100% of their potential. Strategic, finger on the pulse, alert to the trends, planner for the unexpected, researching market share.
- understands that mindfulness increases creativity; that EQ is important; that stress needs relief in order for ability to perform better, be a better person; that improving performance now plus capacity to perform in the future is essential to their peoples mental health
“Asking for help does not mean we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.” Anne Wilson Schaef
Always in service of the bottom-line business and people wise. And always, always knowing that people are the greatest resource and investment which needs continuous nurturing. That’s the savvy leader.
Simon Sinek declares that Leadership is a choice. 8.35 minutes with Simon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrYhnaKvy4 will explain his thinking. Ask for help. Lwearn to be the last to speak. Keep your opinion to yourself. Ask questions to understand. Get that the ‘award of the styrofoam cup’ is for the person not the role.
Leaders: Transformation
- Set vision & make course clear to the team
- Empower team to deliver – delegation
- Encourage diversity of thought
- Accept challenges
- Develop successors
Managers: Transactional
- Plan; co-ordinate; control = essentially task monitors
“Asking for help does not mean we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.” Anne Wilson Schaef
Always in service of the bottom-line business and people wise. And always, always knowing that people are the greatest resource and investment which needs continuous nurturing. That’s the savvy leader.
Interesting thinking points:
- CEOs, senior leaders, fast track leaders don’t receive outside leadership advice BUT nearly all want it especially those new in post who are expected to know how to lead, be a CEO.
- Executives described results from their coaching programme as excellent.
- Many organisations use external coaches (as well as having internal coaches) – what are the benefits? Senior people often feel more secure having an Executive Coach who has no connection to the business as they feel more able to discuss
- ROI is difficult to measure quantitatively. Qualitatively easier to measure by collecting evidence and comparing before and after coaching programme
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Leaders are more than ever at all levels on the frontline negotiating the way forward in these uncertain times. More than ever are in need of support, a thinking partner with the facility to hold an objective helicopter perspective of the landscape. It can be a lonely place at the top. And of course, it doesn’t have to be.
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“Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.” Frederick W Smith, CEO of Fedex
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ” Peter F. Drucker
“A leader…is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most-nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.” Nelson Mandela
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” Rosalynn Carter