Leading Possibility: Busted - 10 Myths About Adopting A Leadership Coaching Approach

The world has changed, and leaders & organisations need to adapt to survive.

Coaching is recognised globally as one of the best ways to grow and develop talent, to tap into potential, solve problems, lead effective change and transformation, and create opportunity. And yet, too many leaders are failing to leverage this crucial opportunity to create their future.

Why aren’t you coaching yet??

We live in a world of rapidly accelerating change, exponential information growth, globalisation, multiple generations in the workforce, advancing technology, a transforming world of work, political, economic, and social demands.

To be an effective leader in this VUCA world means letting go of being the expert and tapping into the capacity and capability of the people around you.

Why aren’t you coaching yet?

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

~ Timothy Gallwey

Do you want your leaders to build more engaged, higher-performing teams and future leaders?

Do you need your leaders equipped to proactively lead and inspire change and transformation?

Do you want to develop a culture of learning, innovation, and accountability?

Do you want to retain your key talent?

Do you want to bring out the best in all your people?

Why aren’t you coaching yet?

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Well, maybe one of these myths is getting in your way.?

MYTH?

Coaching is fluffy and soft and not really tangible.

BUSTED

Coaching is one very constructive way to build accountability and capability in your people.

MYTH

I'm already coaching. I coach my people all the time.

BUSTED

Maybe, but then again, maybe not.?Research ?shows that most leaders who believe they are coaching, actually are not. Instead, they are using a combination of consulting and micromanaging.

MYTH?

I'm not really a coaching type. It doesn't come naturally to me.

BUSTED

Well, the good news is that you can learn the essential leadership coaching skills and quite quickly, too.

MYTH?

I don't need to coach my people.

BUSTED

If you are not coaching your people, then it will be harder to scale your leadership.

You will be limiting yourself to a capacity of one. And you will be the limit of your leadership impact because you are not using coaching to activate all the people around you.

MYTH?

Coaching takes too long. It's just easier to do it myself.

BUSTED

While coaching conversations may take a little longer to begin with, it won't be too long until they take less time.

And let's be real, without them, in six months' time nothing will have changed. You will still be having the same conversation with your people and doing it yourself, rather than having developed and grown your people and their ability to operate independently from you.

Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence.

~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

MYTH?

Coaching is just a short-term solution. It's very task-focused.

BUSTED

Coaching can be about tasks. The what. It can also be about the how, and about who.

Coaching is strategic as you grow and develop people in every coaching moment, creating the opportunity to move from tactical coaching to operational coaching, to strategic coaching, to transformational coaching.

And this is where you make the big impact with coaching leadership.

MYTH?

It's just too hard for me to change my leadership style now and start coaching.

BUSTED

Actually, it's pretty easy.

How easy is it to ask a relevant, open question?

That's how easy it is to start coaching.

MYTH?

I don't need to use a coaching approach. My team are too experienced for that.

BUSTED

An experienced team.

Exactly the reason you need to use a coaching approach is that these experienced people are far more likely to prefer a coaching approach than to be directed or told what to do.

MYTH

My people are too inexperienced to be coached.

BUSTED

When in fact, coaching is a great way to work with your less experienced and less skilled people to help them to grow, to feel in control, and to take accountability for the choices that they make.

MYTH

My people don't want to be coached.

BUSTED

Hold the mirror up. You are the single biggest obstacle to adopting a coaching approach.

The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organisation's valuable resources.

~ Harvard Business Review

So why aren't you coaching yet?

I’d love to know your thoughts.

Dr Stacey Ashley CSP is a leadership expert, a six time International Stevie award winning coach , international speaker and five time Amazon #1 bestselling author. She has been nominated for the Telstra Business & Women's Awards nine times, and in 2021 & 2018 was named in LinkedIn’s Top Voices.

Stacey is obsessed with leading possibility.

She helps CEOs, COOs, C Suite, Executives, HRDs, P&C Leaders, and Transformation & Change Leaders?get?out of the trenches, to lead strategically and with influence.

She typically speaks at conferences, runs workshops, consults & coaches.

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