What Coaching is (and isn’t)
Coaching is focused on you. Unlike athletic coaches who tell you what to do, leadership coaching is focused on working with you, helping you to build your overall capacity. This includes:
- understanding your strengths, areas for development, and blind spots
- better aligning your passion in life with your purpose
- creating more effective options, developing greater agility for how you engage life’s challenges
- maximizing potential while lessening unnecessary suffering for yourself and those you lead.
It is not therapy and should not be used to treat addictions, trauma, or abuse.
Many coaches have different styles, to give you a sense of if we might be compatible, consider these questions:
- How deeply do you value developing personally and professionally?
- As a leader do you role model how you want the people you lead to show up (e.g. asking for feedback)?
- Do you want a safe, neutral setting where you can process challenges with someone who will challenge you but always has your best interests at heart?
- Are you interested in using the challenges you are facing as not just problems to solve but opportunities to grow as a leader?
- Are you at a point in your career where you are ready and willing to invest time and resources in a coaching relationship?
My approach to leadership coaching
I would rather give you a sample, a free one-hour “chemistry” coaching call than a sales pitch. In my 20 years of coaching leaders in family enterprises, I have seen how my experience and competence help my clients gain true insight. This deeper awareness can lead to far more effective action, even the transformation of you the leader. The clients I work best with are courageous, self-reflective, and willing to engage in a deeper dialog about their personal and professional lives.