{"id":16609,"date":"2015-04-24T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=16609"},"modified":"2015-04-27T01:12:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T09:12:22","slug":"do-you-have-a-leadership-coaching-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/do-you-have-a-leadership-coaching-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have a Leadership Coaching Psychology?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leadership coaching psychology<\/strong><\/a> is about the framework in which you work with clients to develop their leadership potential. It’s all about helping today’s leaders build a better tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Leadership Coaching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

3 Key Components to a Successful Leadership Coaching Psychology<\/h3>\n

Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n

In any type of coaching, goals have to be clearly delineated. What does the client want? What do they want to achieve? Where do they want to be in one year, five years, ten years? This means that the identification, clarification, and even the classification of goals is essential to developing leadership.<\/p>\n

You have a destination, how can you create a plan to get there? Creating clear and identifiable goals makes developing a strategy to achieve these goals much easier.<\/p>\n

Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n

The future \u2013 most of us can’t predict it, though I’ve had a few friends who always seem to know the winner of the big game when they bet against me. But, seeing the future is not what vision is all about. Vision is about visualizing the future you want, and then formulating a way to get there through hard work, strategy, and leadership.<\/p>\n

Having vision gives your leadership coaching psychology<\/span> the power it needs to be successful, and as far as your coaching practice goes…it helps make it profitable.<\/p>\n

Flexibility and Adaptability<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each person is unique, and people at the precipice of leadership, or those who are already at the top of the mountain, have unique and individualized ideas. Your job as a leadership coach is to keep an open mind while still adhering to the basic tenets of good coaching \u2013 inquiry, active listening, feedback, etc.<\/p>\n

You must adapt to the unique needs of your clients, while being flexible enough to roll with the changes as they occur. This framework of adaptability and flexibility must also be transferred to your client \u2013 their ability to lead will also depend on finding a balance between adaptability, flexibility, and sticking to their beliefs. Not easy to do \u2013 but essential for any successful leader.<\/p>\n

An Empty Mind<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This one comes out of nowhere for most coaches, but to develop a leadership coaching psychology<\/strong> that gets results, the value of the empty mind must be emphasized. But, why an empty mind \u2013 does that mean you can only coach dumb people?<\/p>\n

An empty mind refers to a mind that is relaxed, free of clutter for the session, and only mindful of what is to be learned in the coach-client experience. For Westerners, achieving this is difficult \u2013 we are used to the constant flurry of activity, the chatter of our electronic devices, and the need to constantly be thinking and worrying about our work, business, or life. It’s what makes meditation difficult for many people in the West.<\/p>\n

A busy mind sabotages a coach’s efforts to help leaders lead, while an empty mind encourages new ways of thinking and leading.<\/p>\n

What is Your Leadership Coach Psychology?<\/h3>\n

Do you have one? If not, you need one. Yes, you must be adaptable and flexible, but you also must have a set framework in which you coach. You must be consistent for your flexibility to have meaning. Being adaptable and flexible doesn’t mean you can’t have a leadership coaching psychology<\/span>.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t formulated a leadership coaching psychology, it’s worth the extra time to think about it, develop it, write it down, and begin to work with it as you help clients become better managers, executives, and leaders.<\/p>\n

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I\u2019d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you <\/i>leave a comment<\/i><\/strong> with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article\u2026<\/i> Thank you<\/i>!<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Fred Philips<\/b><\/a>
\nBusiness Coach
\nWriting Team, Coaches Training Blog Community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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