What is Leadership Coaching?

Leadership Coaching is a developmental process where a leader gets confidential, honest, and customized help from a coach to help them become a more effective leader.

Most leaders have all the technical excellence, knowledge and resources to be successful which is why they rose to the positions they are in. But yet they get to a point where they are unable to make the difference they need or want. Additional training is usually not the answer since they are already the technical experts in their field. The missing piece is something more personal. Often it is how they are interacting with others and /or how they are perceived. The key is how they can be more effective by connecting with others. Human behavior is not what most leaders focus on. Their focus is on results. Yet, a leader’s ability to connect with others determines their ultimate effectiveness. Enter the leadership coach.

Leadership coaching is a developmental process for leaders that combines human interaction with the strength of their technical skills. The coach’s role is to help leaders identify and remove the obstacles that are getting in their way. This is achieved through meaningful questions and intense listening. The coach revisits the world of the leader with compassion and honesty to identify where they get stuck, where history repeats itself, and where pivoting would make the difference to unlock old patterns. Through this process new patterns can emerge clearing the way to a more successful world.

Coaches don’t solve leadership problems. Instead they guide the leader to find the right solution for them in an authentic, honest way. The result is clarity of the change they have determined, and a new path lined with positive reinforcement and renewed excitement for their leadership style and capabilities.