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Coaching is a leadership style that anyone can learn. By coaching you empower others to develop their competences, and you strengthen your own soft skills.
These short videos and blog posts give you insights about coaching at work and tips on 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 videos with reading tips from Saba's bookshelf.
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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.
The current world crisis has shown that human qualities, empathy, compassion, kindness are cardinal to overcoming the many difficult challenges that people are facing everyday. To help bring empathy to life in the workplace Dana Walden shares her expertise, in a webinar entitled "Empathy". Dana tells us about what it is, how to develop it easily and the immense positive impact it has on the workplace.
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When you want to help a colleague or a team member who is having a conflict with someone else, you can use your coaching skills to help them clarify what is upsetting them, and what kind of outcome they want to see. You'll need to listen empathically, be ready to give them some time to vent, and ask open-ended questions that will help them see beyond their first reactions to the conflict.
Coaching can help to understand the real nature of a conflict. By using self-coaching you can bring down your emotional turmoil enough to reflect at what you want to obtain and how you want to resolve the conflict situation you are in.
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.
Leaders who coach in the work place can do so in two ways. Formal coaching is used when you want to coach a colleague on ongoing basis for a certain period, for example if they just joined your team or if they're in charge of a new project. Spontaneous coaching instead is what occurs in everyday short conversations during which you can use coaching skills to quickly solve a problem or find a new perspective.
Leaders who coach tend to refrain from giving quick solutions. Instead they ask open questions to enable their colleagues to come up with their own ideas.
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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.
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.
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Leadership is something we all express in our lives, most often without realizing it. Here are three essential leadership skills that we can easily put into practice more deliberately from today.
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?
As a leader, it’s not always easy to have constructive conversations with employees. In fact, some leaders dread addressing negative behaviors, or on the other hand, they are stingy about offering positive reinforcement.
If you’re not really sure about how to acquire soft skills, learn how to coach. You will forge the right mindset and easily master the behaviors that are indicators of a high mastery of soft skills.
A leader coach is generally well-predisposed towards fellow humans. They are willing to listen, and to give feedback that will help the employee grow. They use a form of inquiry to help colleagues think in different ways and they believe that developing others is part of their job. This kind of leader is connected to the people around them.
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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.
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.
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