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Coaching for Today’s Leaders

Association of Legal Administrators Capital Chapter. Coaching for Today’s Leaders. Coaching For Today’s Leaders: Goals for Today. Define Coaching Clarify the difference between Coaching / Leading / Managing Discover how Coaching Closes the Gap of Management and Leadership

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Coaching for Today’s Leaders

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  1. Association of Legal Administrators Capital Chapter Coaching for Today’s Leaders

  2. Coaching For Today’s Leaders: Goals for Today • Define Coaching • Clarify the difference between Coaching / Leading / Managing • Discover how Coaching Closes the Gap of Management and Leadership • Discuss Deep Listening Skills • Learn the Simple Coaching Model • Implement Coaching Skills in Interactive Coaching Sessions

  3. Leaders must do more than just “point the way” to other people – leaders must “show the way” How can we “show the way” to others?

  4. What is Coaching? • Definition: • Co-Creative • Growth Oriented • Leadership Strategy • Improves Business Performance & Communication • Focuses on Others • Enhances Organizational Roles • Creates Accountability • Removes Barriers

  5. Coaching: Clarifying Roles/Terms • Coach • Client • Internal Client 5

  6. Coaching: Clarifying Roles/Terms • Coach • Internal • External • Position/Title • Client • Internal Client

  7. Coaching: Clarifying Roles/Terms • Coach • Internal • External • Position/Title • Client • Organization • Internal Client 7

  8. Coaching: Clarifying Roles/Terms • Coach • Internal • External • Position • Client • Organization • Internal Client • Person being Coached 8

  9. Lead by Example:Leaders Contribute • Work Side by Side, Support, Contribute to the Future of Others, Develop Others • How can/do you Contribute to others in the community and with Co-Workers? • How can you Contribute to the development of others? • What strengths do you have that you could share with others?

  10. Difference Between: Coaching / Leading / Managing

  11. Coaching & Managing • Coaching Vs. Managing • Managing Can Be: • Directive, Top Down, Focused on Procedures & Operations, • Bottom Line Oriented • Job – to respond to the goals of the organization • Coaching Bridges the Gap of Management by: • Responding to staff and removing barriers

  12. Coaching & Leadership • Coaching Vs. Leadership • Leaders deliver Vision, Inspiration, Motivation • Focus on the future of the organization • Coaching Bridges the Gap of Leadership: • Focuses on the needs of the people • Satisfies the need of the being the “listening ear” • Leaders learn how to optimize human capital • Individuals learn to think • Increases job satisfaction

  13. “One of the greatest gifts you can give anyone is the gift of attention.” Jim Rohn

  14. Artful Listening Skills: • Understanding people precedes leading them • Practice, Patience, Be Present • Active Listener • Non-Verbal Cues, What is not being said • Speaker’s Point of View • Without Judgment • Empathy

  15. “Who you are thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

  16. How to Coach: The Simple Coaching Model 1. Clarify the Agenda • What’s on your mind today? • Ask Open-Ended Questions to dig for more information • Be naturally curious! • Ask: What would you like to take away from our conversation today? 2. Seize the Coachable Moment • Coach listens for inconsistencies, energy shift, assumptions, limiting perspectives • Coach asks Open-Ended Questions to remove blocks

  17. How to Coach: The Simple Coaching Model 3. Invite the Shift • Listen for positive shifts in energy, perceptions, direction • Acknowledge those shifts with the “client” • Ask: What has happened? How do you feel now? 4. Frame the Masterpiece • Guide through next steps, goals, strategies • Closing Question • What was most valuable for you today?

  18. Coaching Sessions:Just Do It! Get into Groups of 3, Identify who will be the: Coach Client Primary Observer

  19. The Simple Coaching Model 1. Clarifying the Agenda - Opening question:What's on your mind today?  Then, the coach digs for more information around the agenda to help the client and coach better understand the agenda.  BE CURIOUS! Second Question to Clarify the Agenda -  What would you like to take away from our discussion today?  2. Look for Coachable Moments- limiting beliefs, perceptions, blocks 3. Inviting the Shift- new perspectives for client 4. Framing the Masterpiece  - Action steps 5. Closing Question- What was most valuable for you today?

  20. Discussion: Debrief Coaching What did you learn about Coaching & Leadership? How and Where can you Coaching? How will this skill make you a more effective leader?

  21. “Authentic leaders demonstrate a passion for their purpose, practice their values consistently, and lead with their hearts as well as their heads. They know who they are.” Bill George, True North

  22. Coaching For Today's Leaders Greatest Take Away Action Plan

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