What is leadership coaching?
- A leadership coach is someone who utilizes experience, education, and a passion for effective process and people management to inspire others to lead their teams in a way that is conducive to growth, cooperation and competition in a healthy way ; when working with a leadership coach, they will examine and evaluate the specific work culture you currently operate in, your individualized career goals as well as the career goals of everyone on the team, and design ways in which they can help you improve and restore beneficial changes in your leadership style and skills. Ultimately, a leadership coach believes that you are a masterpiece and that together you can co-create the art of leadership into reality.
- Leadership coaches help you discover, clarify, and align your core values; help you explore and discover your leadership vision and philosophy; elicit solutions and strategies from the depth of your vision; and help you reach within to find your specific assets and challenges in your leadership style while holding you accountable toward setting goals and following through.
Why do people choose to invest in leadership coaching?
- Leadership coaches can be contacted and utilized within organizations for a variety of reasons. For example, leadership coaches can be relied upon to help provide intelligent variables and feedback in situations where a leader is dissatisfied with their current role or current role outcomes in the organization. Or, they could be relied up during a change or takeover to help align teams and help with strategy reformulations. Furthermore, other examples could include situations where a group of employees in a team are lacking the spark needed to stay engaged at work, and would benefit from a strong leader’s motivational abilities to be that conduit toward strengthening motivation within the team. On the other hand, an executive or business owner may be experiencing burnout, or a lack of engagement due to a trauma or shake in confidence and it is holding them back. In this case, a leadership coach may be just the right prophecy that helps them gain new insight and regain that clarity and fresh perspective that could get them that promotion, that formidable life altering set of new actions for new results.
What are some common myths about leadership coaching?
“I don’t have the time for leadership coaching”
- No one ever feels like they have enough time. Here’s the thing: the right coaching will help you learn to manage your time and make the most of your productive hours.
“I don’t have the money”
- Coaching does cost money—there’s no lie there. However, if you don’t invest in you, who will? Investing in yourself does come at a cost, but it is an insignificant cost when you consider the value it will bring to reaching your full potential. Success in not in just working hard, and being dedicated, it is based on lots of specific tricks of the trade that include Emotional Intelligence as well as organization politics, and organizational design. A leadership coach who is skilled will serve as a guide and a navigator for your already enhanced skills. You will not take a chance with your destination and drive without navigation to your location of preference; why take a chance with your career and your earning potential and most importantly your reputation?
“I’m not big enough for coaching. I need to make way over what I make to deserve a coach”
- You already have coaches; you just don’t know it. Your significant other, your mentor, your previous boss, etc. You’re relying on many sources to support you. But chances are none of them have a sharp focus on your position, your job, and your goals. A coach is paid to get you equipped and to hold you accountable. Coaches come in many different shapes and sizes just like other professional do. You specific target, your timelines, and your budget are all various forms of negotiating. Wasted talent is truly a travesty. You are already there, why not roar like a lion.
What are Questions to ask to find the right Coach?
- How have you measured the success of your leadership coaching?
- What make you an authority in leadership?
- How do I know what you are telling me will not work against me?
- What skills does a leadership coach really need?
- What goals can I achieve from leadership coaching?
There are two main ways in which leadership coaches measure the success of leadership coaching: external and internal indicators
- External indicators include increased revenue and profits, collaborative and committed team effort, better performance and feedback from the team, improved self and stakeholder feedback scores
- Internal indicators include improved self identity, increase in self confidence, more security in decision making, more ease and grace in self and people leadership.
When you are able to see a definitive increase in a combination of these two factors, you will know that leadership coaching has benefited you.
The least you can do is have a conversation and bounce some ideas around. Consultations are absolutely complimentary. What do you have to loose?
Email: info@centerforworklifecounseling.com
Website: https://centerforworklifecounseling.com
Phone: (321) 758-5161
