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Four essential capacities that help leaders move from inner awareness to intentional action.
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A coaching conversation unfolds as a form of gentle inquiry aimed at helping a person to think through a problem, clarify an objective or find new perspectives. The "coach" uses open-ended questions that invite novel thinking, and largely refrains from giving their own tips.
When someone comes to you with an idea of something they want to do, but they’re still wondering about it, instead of jumping in to give them all sorts of advice, try adopting a coaching posture by asking these 4 questions.
Coaching is about having the right supportive mindsets, as well as displaying excellent communication and coaching skills. Adopting a positive, humane, winning, mindset will help you be a better leader coach.
Deciding when to coach involves not only understanding the types of situation that are most conducive to coaching, but also developing an instinct for when to quickly adopt a non-directive mode that will create value in spontaneous conversations. Once you've acquired a coaching mindset and the coaching skills, knowing when to coach is just as important as knowing how to coach.
The first reason that I prefer the term “leader coach” rather than “manager coach” is that management is associated with ensuring that processes work properly, bringing order, organizing and controlling. Whereas leadership is associated with dealing with people, creating a vision, establishing trusting relations, motivating, empowering others.