leaderwithin: benefits of leadership & team coaching
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The 10 benefits of Leadership & Team Coaching - or why increased self awareness leads to great success.TRANSCRIPT
Increased self awareness leads to great success,
because...
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Research shows that individuals who build their work around their strengths are more productive, fulfilled and successful than those that don’t. They also have greater potential for growth.
Building upon strengths enables greater performance
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Awareness and acceptance of weaknesses enables them to be mitigated
Individuals who are comfortable in talking about their limitations are less likely to set themselves up to fail by overstretching on assignments. They are more calculating in taking risks, won’t ask for a challenge they can’t handle and know when to ask for help.
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’intelligence’ about our emotions facilitates other abilities, our emotional brain can either enhance, or get in the way of, our thinking brain.
Emotions enhance our ability to think, plan, pursue goals and solve problems
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Being attuned to feelings is important for decision making
Feelings enable us to navigate an endless stream of decisions. Some decisions cannot be made with rationality alone, they require gut feeling, the emotional wisdom gained from experience.
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Individuals with a strong awareness of their personal value systems use them as a touchstone for making decisions. They have a greater understanding of how conflicts arise in themselves and with others.
Discovering & clarifying personalvalues enables individuals tolead others more effectively
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Alignment with values creates higher motivation
Individuals who are aligned with their values are more motivated to achieve. This creates higher motivation in the team - a drive to surpass goals and an interest in keeping score is contagious.
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Clarifying vision is part of stepping up and taking the lead
Individuals who have spent time developing and clarifying their hopes and dreams are more likely to step up and take the lead. Without knowing our hopes, dreams and aspirations, the chances that we will step up and take the lead are zero.
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... than those that are singular. Individuals who spend time sharing their vision are able to set direction with a higher chance of success.
Visions that are shared attract more people, sustain higher levels of motivation and withstand more challenges...
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Individuals who are aware of and in control of their emotions and impulses are able to recover more quickly from set backs, create an environment of trust and handle change more effectively. They may be able to handle a more challenging client through recognising the deeper reasons for his or her frustrations.
Managing emotions appropriately enables recovery from set backs, ability to build trust and capacity to handle change
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References
‣ Now discover your strengths by Marcus Buckingham (Slide 2)‣ What makes a leader by Daniel Goleman HBR 1998 (Slides 3, 7, 10)‣ Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (Slides 5, 10)‣ The leadership challenge by Kouzes and Postner (Slides 6, 8)
About us
Leaderwithin works with leaders who know that change is required for their business to succeed. Our leading change coaching programme contains everything you need to succeed in creating a future for your business. It helps you unblock whatever is getting in the way, take others with you, recover your passion and purpose so that you and your business succeed
Contact
Contact Emma: [email protected] by Tim Beddingfield | http://www.focuspull.co.uk/Copyright 2012 leaderwithin | http://www.leaderwithin.co.uk