Leadership Development

 Your call to leadership came from an inner knowing, a determination that impels you to take action and to make a difference.  How well are you fulfilling your purpose?

To assess the effectiveness of your leadership, consider these questions:

• Are you regularly empowering others?
• Are you a person of great influence?
• What do people gain from interacting with you?   

To maximize your skills and impact, begin by assessing what kinds of changes you really want to make by looking at three different levels of change:

1)    Level I: Change in a Specific Situation
2)    Level II: Change in a Specific Life Area
3)    Level III: Global Change

Level I:  Change in a Specific Situation

With this level, you may be struggling with a difficult person’s behaviors; your management of emotions in specific situations or need help in developing or increasing a specific skill like conflict resolution with a specific team of people.

Performance coaching works well for these kind of changes which are generally project or skill specific.  Coaching will help you change your point of view, state of mind or actions.  You may go from fear to confidence, inaction to action or inability to competence with regards to a specific person, event or skill.

Level II:  Change in a Specific Life Area

Sometimes, you are more concerned with whole areas like:  how to be a change leader; staying attuned to your impact; building teams; recognizing others’ emotions; effectively reducing conflict and so forth.  

Even though you receive coaching that addresses specific situations, your impact is measured not just by how that one situation changes but by how the skill transfers over within that whole category to similar situations.

Level III: Global Change

Here is where you change your way of being in the world which changes your experience of everything.  This is a vertical change that works from the inside which moves you toward your goals on the outside.  It is more than learning specific skills or strategies.  At this level, you are looking for shifts in perspective that open up greater possibilities in the way you view yourself, others and the world.  

Each of the three levels are valuable to your success. Here is an example of how you may use one or all three levels at one time:

Situation:  Every time a certain employee comes into your office to talk with you, he/she rarely takes responsibility for his/her own actions; complains about others’ quality of work; and covertly sabotages his/her team’s efforts.
Level I:  You look at how this specific person triggers your own negative response and seek ways to control that response.  You seek out a specific strategy/plan that holds this person accountable for his/her productivity.
Level II:  You recognize that this person is calling you to develop better boundaries so people will know it is not acceptable to interact with you in that way.  You seek out coaching to help you establish boundaries in a confident and empowering way with all people.
Level III:  You see that this person is more than a “thorn in your side” or is a call to increase one of your skills like setting boundaries, but is also an integral part of the collective vision.  You seek out ways to tap into that person’s potential and innate desire for success.  

Below are some common obstacles that may lower your level of influence, hinder your empowerment of others and minimize your impact:

• Struggling with developing specific competencies

This could be due to an ineffective plan or strategy, lack of reflection and insight, constructive feedback, or a safe environment in which to fail.

• Feelings of hopelessness regarding your confidence to succeed and your ability to manage certain situations and/or people

This could result from lack of knowledge and skills; faulty beliefs about yourself or others; low levels of optimism and resilience or toxic environments

• Experiencing too much stress and not enough joy and  fulfillment

This could result from not being in touch with your values and needs and the types of energy, thoughts and actions that truly change and sustain you.

Whatever your current leadership needs, I invite you to pursue coaching as a means to maximize your impact in a way that is most fulfilling to you AND fulfills the greater purpose to which you were called.

I would love the opportunity to talk with you about how to make that happen.  To get started, call me at 678-787-2406 for a complimentary needs assessment inventory.  We will talk about what is going on right now and where you want to be in three months to a year.  

Once you decide to move forward, Impact Coaching officially begins with a complete leadership inventory assessing your present level of skills, your beliefs, thoughts, actions, and environment.  Your results along with your individual strengths, qualities and personal goals will be analyzed and together we create a customized action plan designed to reach personal and professional goals.

See the specialized training, classes and coaching designed to maximize your impact and broaden your influence.

When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.~ Jack Welch

 

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