Leadership Coaching: It Starts With You

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