Setting a Good Example “Behavior” During your Leadership Training and Coaching

Here’s a simple leadership training and coaching behavior cycle that will give you a clear picture of good/effective and poor leadership behaviors. Once identified, you will have the tools you need to start setting a good example that reflects solid leadership in your coaching practice. In this training, we’ll also focus on the two important foundational traits that will lead to your leadership growth: Courage and Integrity.

Why do we need training on leadership?

We have all seen examples of poor leadership; it’s far more common than witnessing good/effective leadership. So let’s discuss this cycle of behavior and how it tends to show up in our lives or work place.

The poor Leadership cycle begins with condescending authoritarian leadership: This behavior tends to show up due to the power one is given such a position of authority, title, ect. Often times this type of leadership is due to immaturity, insecurity (something to prove) or jealousy. The behavior will be one of abusing power, displaying poor judgment, and conducting one’s self unethically. Low morale will be the outcome of this style of leadership. Members of the team observe, experience, and then “do unto others.” This leadership cycle then becomes the acceptable normal behavior pattern.

So what does good/effective leadership look like? “Respect and communication!” Respect for yourself, your teammates, your family, and your clients. Effective communication is the key to displaying this respect. It will show up in your words and deeds, especially as a leader trainer and coach.

Quality Leadership training and coaching is essential to your ability to impact people’s lives. Building good and effective behaviors take time and diligence. Start by seeking self improvement, get trained and learn the art of leadership. Set a good example for others to follow. Have a mentor and be a mentor. Promote professional/ethical behavior in your work place. Be a professional. Lastly, communicate, listen, understand and give respect.

Leadership Traits used while conducting authentic leadership training and coaching:

All good leaders demonstrate some level of courage and integrity. The truly effective leaders model these traits with enthusiasm. Within the heart of “courage” is a man or woman that exemplifies the mental quality that recognizes fear of danger or criticism, but is enabled to proceed in the face of it with calmness and firmness.

Integrity- The uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle, absolute truthfulness and honesty. When we set the example of being our word and demonstrate the highest level of integrity, we give permission to others to be their best.

That’s exactly how you make a difference with your leadership training and coaching. You begin by improving yourself. Then you inspire others by what you’ve done. With time, you’ll discover that all those around you–your colleagues, your friends and your family have grown along with you.

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Mark Rabbitt
JTS Advisors Accountability Coach

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One of the key ingredients to successful leadership training and coaching programs are role models who demonstrate outstanding character.  If people can’t trust you, they won’t follow you.  People of integrity often seem to fall into leadership, but is character something that can be learned through training or coaching?  Or are leaders born, not made?

Leadership Training And Coaching Depends On Great Role Models

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One way to develop character through leadership training and coaching is to provide role models who demonstrate integrity above and beyond what people would ever expect.  Jim Burke, the CEO of Johnson & Johnson during the Tylenol murders, responded to the crisis in a way that

is still used as example of character years later.  He responded to the fatalities produced by someone who contaminated packages of Tylenol with cyanide by recalling every single container of Tylenol across the country.  He then highly publicized the potential hazards of taking the product until new packaging could be developed.  Many people thought this decision was going to be the end of the company.

Character and Integrity Can Be Contagious

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During one interview, Jim Burke said that his decision wasn’t difficult even though others thought the results would be disastrous to the company at that time.  He felt that he really had no other choice since for years the company had told its employees and the public that Johnson and Johnson was committed  to do the right thing – no matter the price.  The company had created an environment where there was no other choice but to take the high ground.  Even at the risk of the business going bankrupt.

Would Jim Burke make the same decision in another environment?  I would like to think so.  Either way, this story shows the effect that leadership training and coaching can make within a company and perhaps even the world.


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Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

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What is leadership training and coaching all about? Leadership is definitely not for the fragile and faint of heart. It’s actually more akin to a firewalk; a barefoot walk across hot coals that challenges you to face your greatest fears. Let’s face it. When tempers flare, most people either fight or walk away. In both cases, it’s a Lose-Lose. Is there really training that can transform even the worse scenario into a Win-Win?

Beyond Life Coaching

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Have you ever had a leadership training and coaching client whose business partner seemed totally out of control? No matter what boundaries your client drew, that person behaved in a completely irrational manner? Take the example of two business partners who are at each others’ throats. Your client’s perceived options include quitting the project or pissing his partner him off so that he leaves. There is a third option. If your client really wants to get through the project peacefully and profitably, he will have to step into the role of a leader.

Advanced Leadership Training and Coaching Tactics

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These leadership training and coaching tactics are not popular, although they are often the only choice your client has to turn a Lose-Lose into a Win-Win. The conversation that will begin the process is for the bravest person to step forward and share what he or she is most committed to with regards to the project or the relationship. After that, your client must come along side of the other person and understand his partner’s view of the situation is. The key is without judgment. Only after coming to clear understanding of what that view is, which will usually require asking some clarifying question, should your leadership training and coaching client offer his opinion. When this opinion is offered, it should only be offered in a way that it is clearly a possible opinion among others. It’s ok to back up the opinion with reasons to support the opinion, but not to attempt to persuade the other into their own point of view or make the other person appear “wrong.”

This is truly the road less traveled, and the most challenging option. But when two people are really engaged in battle, it becomes impossible for either to back down. The secret is actually that whoever is the most flexible in his approach will win every time over someone who is rigid and inflexible. It’s often a matter of whether your clients want to win or do they want to be right. I’ll take the Win-Win every time.

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Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

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If you think you have to be brilliant to be able to provide executive coaching, think again.  With basic leadership training and coaching, you can understand the psychology behind the game and really be able to transform ordinary leaders into giants.  These leadership training and coaching skills can be used in many contexts; from sales, to executive coaching, to parenting, to management, to high level political debates.

Enter into Your Clients World to Make a Measureable Difference Using Executive Coaching

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Here’s what most people don’t understand about leadership training and coaching, if they did it would change their lives forever.  When you’re talking to someone you are either in your reality or you are in theirs.  After executive coaching, hopefully you can go back and forth between these two realities within a single conversation.  We all have our own worlds, so to speak.  And in these worlds we have our own languages, beliefs, and rules of how things must work.  And unless the person you’re talking to is willing to come into your world, you must go into theirs.

With the Right Leadership Training and Coaching Skills Your Ventures in Others Worlds Will Help You to Discover What Makes That Person Tick

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Some people don’t want to go into others peoples’ worlds.  But the executive coaching for that person is that whoever is the most flexible and adaptable, is the leader.  With leadership training and coaching skills that allow you to venture into someone else’s world, you can learn enough to really influence that person.  Perhaps even enough to get them to come into your own world.  Imagine the possibilities of having a conversation where both people were able to see things from the other person’s point of view!

Do More Than Listen and Understand, Use Your Executive Coaching Skills to Dive into Your Clients Worlds

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The key leadership training and coaching skills you’ll need, go far beyond listening and trying to understand.  Just like going into another world, you’ll need to try out the food and experience some of what that world has to offer.  Not based on your own prejudices, but through the eyes of the locals of that world.  Maybe in your world, you don’t eat bugs, but in someone else’s world grubs are a delicacy.  This executive coaching strategy of truly seeing things from another person’s perspective will pay off, but a word of caution.  Make sure you don’t go so far into that other world that you get lost.  We’ve all had those conversations with people who are so far into their own world and problems they can’t see solutions.  Don’t get stuck there with them.

Since few people are willing or able to bridge over into your reality, you have two choices.  Use your leadership training and coaching skills to bridge into theirs, or stay in your own world.   But at least with this executive coaching, you know you have a choice.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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