Leaders are coaches and teachers, not commanders and controllers.
To succeed, you’ll need to lead. To lead, you’ll need to coach. Being coached is a great way to learn coaching.
Coaching starts with helping clients discover their own greatness, not leadership lobotomies.
We’ll discover your strengths and work with them, not against them.
Coaching is about creating Big Hairy Audacious Goals, not filling a generic list of leadership competency gaps.
We’ll design your Big Hairy Audacious Goal, then I’ll pull you toward it by helping you identify exactly the competencies you need to develop to create that future. We’ll work on what’s needed to get to the results, and skip the unnecessary.
Coaching is about creating a winning plan for creating the Big Hairy Audacious Goal.
Starting from the Big Hairy Audacious Goal and working backward, we’ll map out what you need to do in small, manageable steps, anticipate obstacles, and conquer them.
Coaches are transformational agents, not purveyors of tips and techniques.
You can get those from a book.
Coaches focus on results.
On the way to the Big Hairy Audacious Goal, we need to measure your progress. Measurement equals motivation.
Coaching relationships are robust.
I pour myself into you and expect a passionate commitment to the coaching relationship from you in return.
All these principles are adapted from Robert Hargrove’s Masterful Coaching.
