What do you think of when you think about leadership coaching?  Probably the context of business is what comes to mind.  But leadership is an art and a skill set that your clients can use in many areas of life.  Sure, you might be a business coach helping an executive or a branch manager to increase productivity in her team, but you could just as easily be a parenting coach helping a dad figure out how to blend an argumentative, stressed out family into a harmonious and happy unit  The mindset and skills of leadership can be effective tools in the arsenals not just of business coaches, but of parenting coaches, relationship coaches, personal development coaches, and the list goes on.

Demonstrate Leadership to Your Clients by Example

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When you coach, who is responsible for keeping the session focused on your client’s goals?  Who structures the session?  Who manages or uses the emotions that come up?  That’s right, you–it’s your job.  You are the leader.

Think about the qualities you need to have as a successful coach.  You are focused on helping your client get what he wants, not on getting what you want.  You are open minded and non-judgmental, willing to listen and pay attention to what your client is saying.  You demonstrate integrity by keeping your coaching appointments at the day and time you set, and by staying focused on your client during your sessions.  You know when to push and when to back off.  You know when to be a shoulder to cry on and when to be a tough accountability coach.  You spend time on building rapport, but you don’t waste time without a purpose.  You demonstrate respect and expect it in return.  Etc. etc. etc.

With the obvious additions of coaching knowledge and skills, a great coach looks a lot like a great leader.  When you demonstrate the behaviors, expectations and mindset of a leader in your coaching sessions, you are already half way to success in your leadership coaching.

In Leadership Coaching You Become Part of Your Client’s Peer Group

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In order to sustain a long-term shift in behavior and mindset, your leadership coaching client will benefit from being part of a peer group of successful leaders, willing and able to mentor and support each other over time.  Part of your job as a coach is to help your client find a way to associate with such a peer group.  And guess what?  You are a great fit.  Of course as a coach, you have specific, additional skills, and you get paid by your client, but as long as you don’t get caught up in an ego trip, you can be model, mentor and peer in many positive aspects of leadership.  Be an example in your leadership coaching, and challenge your client to extend his peer group and find other leaders with the qualities he sees in you.

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works.   If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks!

Dorine G. Kramer

JTS Advisors Certified Strategy and Accountability Coach

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They key to effective leadership coaching is to get people to do what they wouldn’t do otherwise.  This is the crux of motivation.  Ideally, the entire team needs to experience motivation in a way that amplifies each individual’s motivation.  This creates a powerful team and requires good leadership skills.  What are the key elements in coaching a team?

Five Key Elements to Effective Leadership Coaching

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1. Create an Environment Where People Get Their Needs Met.  Just as individuals have a drive to get their basic needs met, groups or teams also experience a drive to get their needs met as a group.  The basic needs are certainty, significance, variety, and love and connection.  Members of a team may play different roles, but the leadership coaching goal is to create synergy.  For example, one member might be all about creating harmony and connection in a group, while another might bring a great deal of certainty to the group because of her experience.
2. Create an Environment Where People’s Values are Appreciated.  Having a business run entirely by a group whose highest value is selfless contribution to others might be devastating to in a sales team, but for a medical office it might work.  Allowing a team member who values beauty for beauty’s sake to make some modifications to the décor of a waiting area or conference area may be a win-win for all involved.  Leadership is about utilizing the strengths of the individuals and creating a cohesive team.
3. Create an Environment Where the Goals Are Clearly Defined.  People are motivated to achieve goals, but often employees are the last to know what the outcomes are.  Team behavior is also motivated by the goals that individual members intent to achieve as well the common goals.
4. Create an Environment With Accountability.  An effective team needs performance and behavioral standards, as well as a means for holding itself accountability to these standards.  There is much less incentive to perform without a system for tracking progress and results.
5. Create an Environment With Incentives and Rewards.  Team memory has a life of it’s own.  Just as individuals remember successes, with effective leadership coaching you can create a positive memory of wins and accomplishments within the team.  This enhances motivation to support each other in common goals.

Persistence Pays Off

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Effective leadership coaching requires that the team be inspired into preserving through thick and thin.  When tasks require long periods of time before they are completed or are tedious, a team that works well together has a huge advantage.  The benefit of creating a powerful team is that together they can weather storms that would tear apart a lesser team.

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Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

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The best way to learn leadership coaching skills is to get on the court.  You will learn at a much deeper level when you apply coaching techniques to your own life and goals, and we all know that in leadership, it requires someone to volunteer to go first.  The first step in change is deciding what you need to do to change.  Decide what it is going to take to believe that you must change, and that the time is now.  Once you are there, you’re only a few steps toward transformation.

Five Steps to Leadership Coaching From the Inside Out

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1. What are you doing or not doing that prevents you from changing?  Be honest.  Where are you lying to yourself about the answer to that question?
2. What beliefs do you have that cause these factors to prevent you from changing?  Be honest.  Where are you lying to yourself about the answer to that question?
3. What’s the positive intent of these beliefs?  What needs are you meeting in terms of certainty, love and connection, variety, and significance?  For example, doing things the same way will give you some certainty about the outcome.  If you change things you might risk love and connection from people who would rather you not change, because they are getting their needs met from you being the way you are.  Take a thorough inventory and determine how at least two of these needs are getting met with your current behavior.
4. What can you believe that would turn this around?  What is an empowering alternative to the old beliefs?  How could that meet more or your needs at a higher level?
5. What kind of results will this new belief give you?  How will that feel?

The Key to Lasting Change Begins With Awareness

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When you take yourself through this leadership coaching exercise, you will be able to coach at a much more effective level.  You will also start seeing new results in your own life, and you will be a walking billboard for the power of coaching.

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Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

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