Everything you need to know about Leadership coaching!!
What is Leadership Coaching?
Leadership coaching is about executive or business coaching which typically includes training leaders. The distinction is most evident when compared to coaching that helps an individual to achieve a personal goal such as happiness, work-life, balance, better relationships or financial security or wealth.
Executive or leadership coaching is therefore meant to meet organizational demands.
Leadership Coaching is a collaborative and individualized relationship between a leader and the coach.
Who is a Leader?
The leader could be anyone who is an executive, manager, supervisor, team leader or business owner. It could be anyone in charge or responsible for a group of people.
Who is a coach or mentor?
A mentor or coach is someone who draws heavily and works on psychotherapeutic frameworks and skills in leadership coaching.
He/She has more than just an understanding of the dynamics of the individual, have a ‘business head’ and knows about organisational behaviour accurately.
What does a mentor or coach do?
A coach/mentor recognises problems in executive leadership, harmful or toxic cultures, dysfunctional teams and poor decision-making which goes well beyond the person thus helping the organisation and individuals grow efficiently.
What is Leadership and Executive Coaching?
- Coaching is a partnership in which both sides work to reach an agreed-upon destination. The collaboration between a leader and a coach aims transform the quality of the leader’s working and personal life and to bring about sustained behavioural change.
- It could include working with teams or individuals in executive or management positions.
- Executive or leadership coaching is an individualized and experiential leader development process that builds a leader’s capability to achieve long-term and short-term organisational goals.
- It is conducted through group interactions and one-on-one, carried out by data from multiple perspectives, and is based on respect and mutual trust.
- The organisation, the executive coach and an executive work in partnership to realise the maximum possible impact.
Why is Coaching required?
Flow-on effect
- One case could be when leaders benefit due to coaching designed to bring about more effective healthier organisations and such benefits spread throughout the team. Thus exposing senior leaders to the coaching experience has a flow-on effect of speeding a coaching culture within the organisation.
- People are responsive to coaching. They apply their new found skills and techniques to other people in the organisation which improves interaction cascades down the organisation.
- Coaching can also be seen as passing on of a set of skills used by leaders in the organisation on a day-to-day basis thus enhancing the performance of everyone in the organisation.
It is individually tailored
Coaching has become a viable alternative for businesses/ organisations looking to operate at peak performance. Coaching is individualised and specifically tailored to the person contrary to training and workshops which are usually general, and everyone learns the same set of material.
In leadership coaching situations, the objective is to assist successful people to become even more efficient. Effective coaches go to great lengths to strengthen the unique talents, abilities and potential of their clients. It’s about encouraging and helping clients to be open to change, to step-up, and be more responsible corporate citizens. Thus leadership coaching improves the bottom line.
A leader often sees a coach as a “confidential thinking partner.”
For instance, the areas that leaders seek coaching includes:
- Developing a more effective leadership style or manner
- Engaging in succession planning & management
- Improving interpersonal or communication skills
- Accelerating personal development
- Developing “superstar” workers
- Discovering that elusive work/life balance
- Assistance in priority setting and time management
- Enhancement of presentation and networking skills
- Engaging in career development & planning
- Dealing with conflict and learning conflict-management skills
- Learning how to manage upwards
- Recognising and implementing efficient staff development
- Strengthening self-confidence, assertiveness and well-being
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Summary/Description: Executive/Leadership coaching will unleash the potential of your talent to give your organisation the leading edge it needs.