“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John C. Maxwell
What is Leadership Coaching?
When it comes to taking your business performance from middling to masterful, often you need an experienced perspective to help show you the way. Leadership coaching is a collaborative effort between you – the executive, the top manager, the leader – and an experienced leadership coach who knows how to help you reach your goals.
Leadership coaching is a relationship that extends beyond technical training, career counseling, or consulting. As a top level manager or executive, this sort of run of the mill programming isn’t going to enable you to achieve the results you’ve craved.
Unlike cookie cutter programming like conferences and seminars where everyone who attends leaves with the same set of information, information which may or may not even be relevant to your interests, leadership coaching is a customized experience, tailor made for your specific needs. We’ll take a look at the finer details of your operations, and help you come up with solutions that are guaranteed to make a difference in your performance, and bolster your bottom line.
What leadership coaching can help you improve
- Communication and giving better feedback
- Teamwork and delegation
- Work/Life Balance
- Productivity and Performance
- Decision Making and Efficiency
The difference between leadership coaching and other types of training is that where most consulting, training, and development involves a knowledgeable person talking while the “students” listen, Leadership Coaching is a two-way conversation. The executive or top level manager will bring their unique challenges to the table, while the leadership coach helps these leaders come up with effective solutions which will actually make a difference.
This collaboration requires a level of open communication and self-awareness that will enable us to take an honest look at how you’re managing your company, so that we can help you make the decisions that will have a greater impact on your company’s future. Leadership Coaching is effectively passing on a set of developed and tested skills, guaranteed to improve performance from the top to the bottom of an organization.
Results have shown that when organizational leaders change their behavior it has a long-lasting trickle down effect which reaches every other individual and part of the organization. Leadership is influence, and the example set by top level managers and executives will be followed by those beneath them, for better or for worse. The best leaders are those who have the ability influence up, down and across the organization, and the right coaching can help instill the skills that will allow you to manage this influence.
Leadership coaching can also help you handle time management, conflict resolution, and staff development, as well as showing you how to recognize burgeoning talent and encourage high performance in those individuals and teams. We can show you how to hire better, how to delegate effectively, and how to be an overall better communicator.
What the Leadership Coaching Process Looks Like
Throughout the coaching experience, we will set up a series of milestones that will work as a series of mini achievements that’ll help you not only progress in your coaching, but also in your growth. If you don’t already have goals in mind, we can ensure that you have a roadmap worth following, that will help you get to where you want to go. We’ll take an in-depth look at your processes, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and help you discover those hidden chinks in your armor.
We’ll meet with you one on one or with your team of trusted advisors and decision makers. We’ll discuss how to set priorities, direct you towards tools and knowledge that will improve your day to day operations and encourage you in your development, and give you assignments so you can practice your new skills in real time.