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Coaching and mentoring are two of the best ways to develop talent across the organization. When leaders coach or mentor others, they create opportunities to enhance the knowledge and skills of the people they lead. Coaching and mentoring lets people know they are valued which keeps them engaged. Done well, coaching and mentoring helps build a strong pipeline of future leaders.
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Coaching: Arguably THE Most Important Leadership Skill
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How you lead has a direct, and often immediate impact on the team’s performance, but research shows that leaders continue to fall short of desired expectations, leaving their teams wanting and needing more from them. Why? While it’s easy to say something like “engagement” or “motivation,” the reality is more nuanced, and paradoxically, more simple.
When we show employees that we want to hear from them, and we want to know them on a deeper level, we are leveraging one of the most primitive human needs: belonging. The invitation shows employees that what they have to say is important, that their voice is valued, and that they belong on the team of which they are a part.
So what does this have to do with coaching? Well, the basic principles of coaching revolve around questions, and questions are a key part of the invitation. Asking employees what they think, why they think it, what else they might think, and so on, is utilizing the invitation to bring them in and build them up. And this is the essence of coaching.
In this session, you will learn:
What the invitation does to our physiology
How to embed an invitational / coaching approach into your leadership
Why coaching is arguably the most effective leadership style
How to build more invitations into your leadership practice
Resources
Successful Leaders Are Great Coaches
More and more executives are realizing that the successful leader must be a good coach. But what do good coaches do? Read on to learn more.
A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
Master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with examples of questions.
7 Coaching Tips For Managers & Leaders
We’ve identified seven key skills and competencies that play a role in choosing a method of coaching for employees.
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More
Drawing on years of experience training busy managers in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples’ potential. He unpacks 7 essential coaching questions to demonstrate how you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.
11 Things Leaders Need To Know To Manage Gen Z Employees
The members of Generation Z are now entering the workforce, and their values, priorities and ideas about what work means are different from those of any generation that came before them.
An Easy-To-Digest Perspective On Why Belonging Is Best For Businesss
A book about strengthening and deepening our relationships while optimizing them for both the company’s benefit and for the employees with whom we share our days.
Kristen has worked in leadership development, human resources, culture, DEI, talent management, career development, employee engagement, and even held a short stint as a Chief People Officer. Kristen has a master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, where she focused her studies on adult learning, group and team dynamics, and executive coaching.