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Coaching is the new leadership style.
21st century leaders inspire performance by being aligned to a sense of purposed and having the ability to develop others to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
Here are some free resources that you can enjoy to start learning how to coach.
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About Coaching in the WorkplaceList Item 2
The modern concept of coaching is much more than teaching a skill, it's a leadership style that empowers others to develop their competencies and fulfill their potential.
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Coaching Skills for LeadersList Item 1
Here are some tips to help you acquire a coaching posture and foundation coaching skills.
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Books About Coaching
There are so many books on coaching, it's hard to choose which one to start with. Here are a few reading tips from Saba's bookshelf.
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We provide foundation and specialized courses to develop coaching skills in organizations. Face-to-face workshops are suspended but all our training is being transferred online.
About Coaching in the Workplace
Coaching Skills for Leaders
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.
Knowing when to coach is just as important as knowing how to coach. Coaching works best when you want to invite new perspectives, or have team members discover their own solutions. Here are a few tips on how to go about it.
If you’re new to leading a virtual team, with a dispersed team also new to telecommuting, you will need as many resources as possible to help you succeed in this new mode of being with your colleagues and coordinating work online.
Coaching is not only reserved for managers who coach their direct reports. Coaching shouldn’t be a hierarchical privilege. It is a communication style that everyone can adopt, it’s an attitude, it’s a way of conversing with others so that they can develop or clarify their ideas, motivations and actions.
For most coaches, an introduction into practicing our profession started with learning a coaching tool. Coaching is experiential so there's nothing more convenient than a coaching tool to start off practicing. But are we hooked on using tools?
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When you get an assignment from your boss, you can use coaching skills and open-ended questions to clarify exactly what they want in terms of end outcome and quality of execution.
Feedback is a dialogue, it requires trust and openness between the giver and the receiver of the feedback. Using coaching skills can help you give feedback in a way that is respectful, authentic and oriented towards improvement and growth.
Leaders who coach choose the situation where it is most appropriate to use their coaching skills, for example when they want to help a colleague think things through and come up with their own conclusions.
Books about Coaching
There are so many books about coaching and it’s quite hard to navigate through all the titles to find what really matches your needs. Here are a few tips from my bookshelf.
The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook brings together a wide number of research-based approaches, grounded in the behavioural sciences, that can be used for executive and personal coaching. The practical application of each approach is illustrated through case studies.
James Hunt and Joseph Weintraub wrote one of the first comprehensive books on the role of managers who coach, taking the reader step by step into adopting this new and empowering leadership style, that develops talent and enables top performance.
Keith Thomas has compiled an extraordinary collection of insights by many different authors across the centuries on their view about work. Philosophers, politicians, writers, poets, artists and scientists offer a variety of concepts of work from "primal curse" to means of "self-realization". This book helps us become aware of our's underlying beliefs about work and how they influence our experience of it.
Meet my books video series - In this inspiring book, Robert Quinn takes us on an inner journey to reconnect to our sense of purpose and ignite our leadership potential to drive positive change. A great read for leaders who want to re-energize in times of organizational cynicism.
Meet my books video series - Margaret Parkin has written a wonderful book for coaches, guiding them through the process of using story-telling in their practice. Stories can serve as powerful metaphors of the client’s situation, they may help the client gain new insights and view things from a different perspective.
Meet my books video series - This fascinating book by Christine Thornton is excellent for practitioners, leaders and students of coaching who want to understand group dynamics, systems thinking and other crucial concepts and techniques needed to successfully coach groups and teams.
Meet my books video series - Sir John Whitmore’s book Coaching for Performance is a classic in the coaching literature. In 1992 it presented a radical break away from the command and control approach in the workplace, inviting managers instead to coach for performance through the development of people's potential. It is a complete guide to coaching skills and mindsets for both managers and for professional coaches.
Meet my books video series - Joseph O’Connor and Andrea Lages have written wide-sweeping introductory book on coaching covering a history of coaching, the main coaching methodologies, presenting their own model of coaching and giving insights in how to measure the results of coaching.
Meet my books video series - Edited by Gladeana McMahon and Anne Archer, this excellent book presents a wide variety of coaching tools that are easy to use for all coaching professionals. There are tools for different purposes, such as confidence building, problem-solving or group coaching, and clear guidance on how to use them.
Leaders Today Academy Courses
The Leaders Today Academy offers various learning experiences to develop a unique combination of leadership and coaching skills for 21st century leaders.
All our face-to-face workshops are suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic to safe-guard everyone's health.
Read more about the Leaders Today Academy and plan for future trainings.