Leadership Coaching
Coaching for leadership development focuses on the discipline of personal mastery. Peter Senge, renowned author, educator, and speaker on learning defines personal mastery as” ...continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience and of seeing reality objectively.” Coaching is a systematic, effective methodology to increase personal mastery, awareness, and performance in leaders. Coaching explicitly supports the learners to help them understand their own learning style and to observe and reflect on what they are learning. Coaching is a collaborative, results-oriented process that engages the learner in identifying their own learning gaps and in finding systematic solutions to address them.
People are primarily engaged in the process of making meaning of the world around them. This effort to understand or make sense of the world is extremely useful. It enables us to understand the past, make sense of the present and, to a degree, predict the future. As we mature, we adopt certain filters, or ways of seeing the world. These ways of making sense or making meaning are useful in some circumstances and potentially limiting in others. Coaching helps to highlight the ways in which we filter information and actively encourages us to incorporate new and diverse perspectives. Coaching helps a leader to consciously nurture meaningful experiences and as a result take meaningful action.
Evidence Based Coaching Handbook - Editors D.R. Stober, A.M. Grant. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2006.
Executive Coaching for Results - The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders, B. Underhill, K. McAnally, J.J. Koriath, M.Goldsmith, R.J. Leider.
http://www.coachfederation.org/ICF/ Personal and business coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Learn how it works and how it can add value to your life.
http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/research/areas/coaching&mentoring/ The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring is a free access, international peer reviewed journal, which is published bi-annually online in February and August. The aim of the journal is twofold: firstly, to provide evidence-based, well-researched resources for students, professionals, corporate clients, managers and academic specialists who need to be at the forefront of developments in the field; and secondly to offer an accessible yet powerful discussion platform for the growing number of coaching and mentoring practitioners seeking to validate their practice.
Coaching for leadership development focuses on the discipline of personal mastery. Peter Senge, renowned author, educator, and speaker on learning defines personal mastery as” ...continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience and of seeing reality objectively.” Coaching is a systematic, effective methodology to increase personal mastery, awareness, and performance in leaders. Coaching explicitly supports the learners to help them understand their own learning style and to observe and reflect on what they are learning. Coaching is a collaborative, results-oriented process that engages the learner in identifying their own learning gaps and in finding systematic solutions to address them.
People are primarily engaged in the process of making meaning of the world around them. This effort to understand or make sense of the world is extremely useful. It enables us to understand the past, make sense of the present and, to a degree, predict the future. As we mature, we adopt certain filters, or ways of seeing the world. These ways of making sense or making meaning are useful in some circumstances and potentially limiting in others. Coaching helps to highlight the ways in which we filter information and actively encourages us to incorporate new and diverse perspectives. Coaching helps a leader to consciously nurture meaningful experiences and as a result take meaningful action.
Some select resources:
Evidence Based Coaching Handbook - Editors D.R. Stober, A.M. Grant. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2006.
Executive Coaching for Results - The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders, B. Underhill, K. McAnally, J.J. Koriath, M.Goldsmith, R.J. Leider.
Websites
http://www.coachfederation.org/ICF/ Personal and business coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Learn how it works and how it can add value to your life.
http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/research/areas/coaching&mentoring/ The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring is a free access, international peer reviewed journal, which is published bi-annually online in February and August. The aim of the journal is twofold: firstly, to provide evidence-based, well-researched resources for students, professionals, corporate clients, managers and academic specialists who need to be at the forefront of developments in the field; and secondly to offer an accessible yet powerful discussion platform for the growing number of coaching and mentoring practitioners seeking to validate their practice.
" In the end, coaching makes sense as an investment only if it improves the performance not only of the individual, but the company as well. In this sense, the word strategic becomes important. As a high-leverage intervention, the impact of a coach on a few key individuals can drive through massive changes in a corporate setting. By encouraging innovation and change management, usually mid-wifed by a limited number of driven individuals, the process of innovation becomes one which also produces the next generation of leaders. " G. Ledgerwood, Int'l Jnl of Evidence Based Coaching.
