10 Leadership Coaching Styles that you must Know

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Leadership coaching is the means of employing a nonpartisan observer to help you set goals and enhance your potential. Part of any leadership coaching relationship is to assist you in seeing what’s most relevant to you. You’ll receive guidance on designing your life plan, seeing the performance from a different perspective, and eliminating barriers blocking your potential.

There is a consistent thread that is repeated throughout most leadership coaching processes. Here are the top ten things emphasized and repeated almost always in most leadership coaching programs:

  1. Situational coaches try to maintain a delicate balance between being directive and nondirective, alternating between the two in differing degrees depending on the situation’s requirements. Directive form involves telling team members and other employees what to do. Nondirective means listening and questioning without being impatient and judgmental.
  2. The comfort zone is carved when you hold on to the past while focusing towards the future. You become complacent and go nowhere. Release the past and strive towards the future. This form of leadership coaching involves constant support towards forgetting the past & focusing on the future. 
  3. Whatever you try to do, ensure it completely resonates with who you want to become. Passion is not artificial; it is not situational. The truth surfaces as lack of motivation, disconnectedness, and callousness. Whatever you do, be passionate about it. Passionate leadership coaching involves enhancing motivation and developing the ‘power of staying in the NOW.’
  4. The whole idea of multitasking is a misnomer. Try pictures two images at once. Either you focus on one or the other. Concentrate on the task at hand. This one method is more valuable than any skill you can learn. There are plans and a thousand other events. Pick one to master. Master it and move forward. As you evolve your momentum, listen to your inner voice, opinions and adjust. The key is to stop procrastination.
  5. Picture in your brain what life will look like once you have accomplished your goal. Start with the ending in mind and see yourself as achieving and victorious. With this type of focus you firmly move in a positive direction.
  6. Never forget the saying that “The harder you work, the luckier you get”. You’ll get in the “zone” where concepts and ideas free flow to create new patterns and insights that cause epiphanies to occur on a subconscious level.
  7. Be quick to decide and slow to change. Explore all the options and decide which direction is best for you. Be persistent and not easily swayed. You’ll go far faster and quicker.
  8. No one else believes in you the way that you can. Believe in self is the beginning of all great achievement. People will feel this energy, be attracted to you for reasons they can’t understand.
  9. Never forget the saying that “The harder you work, the luckier you get”. You’ll get in the “zone” where concepts and ideas free flow to create new patterns and insights that cause epiphanies to occur on a subconscious level.
  10. Embrace fully your capacity to create, to think in unlimited terms and to pursue everything you’ve been wanting. What you pretend not to see can sometimes be described as great opportunities. Watch for those gems hidden in adversity.

– Winston Churchill said it best, “Never, never, never give up”. There are always answers when there are questions. Focus on the solution, and you’ll always come out on top. Start here to understand what life coaching can do to improve your life. When choosing a leadership coach, look for these common threads, and you’re sure to have found a reliable life coach.

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