What is Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching is applying coaching techniques into your leadership style.

A leader as a coach will inspire, speak in positive tones, and use open language to engage conversations, releasing an employee’s potential and creating a supportive learning space.

A leader as a coach, will challenge an employee’s thinking, gently encouraging them to do great work, while developing their own curiosity and listening skills.

A win-win style of leadership!

The more you practice the techniques, the better you will become.

So, how do you get started?

Reflect and Apply

Firstly, be reflective on your communication:

Are you allowing space for others to think?
Are you answering their own questions?
Are you encouraging further thought?
Do you know when not to get stuck in and be hands on, enabling their decision making?

Next, try and pay attention to your conversations:

Be present and connected
Remain on the outside looking in
Use open style questions
- Tell me more about that?
- What do you need from your team?
- How did you find that last project?
- What were the learnings from it?

Authenticity

The best thing about leadership coaching Is the ability to bring ‘you’ into your style of leadership, being authentic and true.

It is a very natural way of building and sustaining working relationships, it reduces conflict, provides opportunities for openness, there are no agendas, it is respectful and empowering.

It is a highly engaged way of working and mutually beneficial. Try it and see!

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