“Leadership is now understood by many to imply collective action, orchestrated in such a way as to bring about significant change while raising the competencies and motivation of all those involved—that is action where more than one individual influences the process.” —Bornstein & Smith, quoted in The Leader of the Future How can organizations change and why would they? …
“Power comes in many forms, one of which is mastery. As we become expert—in creation or discovery, in helping or healing, in communicating or leading—we gain power. That power is revealed in flow, and in joy.” ― Heather E. Heying, Evolutionary biologist The first response from me regarding this question of how to become a great coach is that …
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut On many of my training programs when inviting participants to push things, experiment and explore beyond their habitual behavioral boundaries I’ll often ask them to pretend. By this I don’t simply mean ‘fake it’ but to think about it …
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” —Ralph Nader For me, one of the best places to begin exploring coaching to develop great leaders, particularly if you’re somewhat new to leadership development or even coaching, is simply to start with your own life experience. Find times in your …
Naturally there’s plenty of other categories in the field of coaching than these as well. Just about any area of human endeavor you can think of will probably have a specialist coach who works exclusively with it. Yet these three are all quite well represented within the broader coaching profession so let’s have a brief look at what they …
Let’s look at what terms like Accredited Life Coach Certification, Leadership Coach, Executive Coach Certification or Life Coach Credentialing and Accreditation actually means. There are certainly many different terms used around coach training, qualification and the coaching industry in general all of which can understandably seem more than a little confusing. No less the fact that even when we …