Part of leadership is teaching and mentoring your team to develop a leader mind. This skill as a leader is a type of coaching, which is the ability to really be curious and ask questions that help your report to think through things and find answers. These questions are not
As a coach, the most important thing I desire for my clients is that they walk away better than how they showed up. I want them to have more clarity, focus, and a plan to achieve whatever they were up to.
Counseling takes bad things and makes them smaller (like putting out a fire).
Coaching takes good things and makes them bigger (like adding brightness to a light).
I feel very blessed and honored to coach my clients! It is a gift to hold space for their learning, self-reflections and self-challenging.
It has been a joy and honor to coach and connect with many leaders over the last twenty years. When reflecting on clients who seemed to get the most traction, enjoyed the most success, and obtained the best results from coaching, there are a few common themes. (Note: If you
Inspiration to me is what I think about, am passionate about, want to learn more about, and constantly seek to deepen understanding and ability to do well.
Often leaders know coaching is a great tool to support their growth and development. In the middle of the leadership grind, the urgent tasks and press of business, leaders struggle to know WHAT to coach on that will really be supportive. Here are a few questions that help to assess your goals in a coaching engagement as well as help to get a focus for a coaching call.
Being a mom herself, she got the vision and the impact. I would not have been where I am without her. She has incredible tips like books or people and is always able to guide me forward in the topics we work on. -Jullien Rossel
For coaching to have its powerful transformation, leaders must make an intentional effort to apply the general learning to themselves specifically. They must bring to the table their thoughts, learning, and suggestions to create a custom and unique approach and solution that supports their vision for life and work.
The field of coaching evolved in the ‘80s and ‘90s from consulting and counseling. Coaches Training Institute (CTI) describes coaching as, “[Coaching is] a powerful alliance designed to forward and enhance the lifelong process of human learning, effectiveness, and fulfillment.” The ICF (International Coaching Federation) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
