Why is good leadership important?
Because leadership accounts for, at the very least, 15% of the success of any organization. (Warren Bennis)
Yet how could an element so significant suffer from so much confusion?
According to Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus, “Decades of academic analysis have given us more than 850 definitions of leadership… Never have so many labored so long to say so little… Definitions reflect fads, fashions, political tides and academic trends. They don’t always reflect reality and sometimes they just represent nonsense… Like love, leadership continued to be something everyone knew existed but nobody could define.”
Amidst all the confusion, it’s no wonder that most of us who lead have neither been formally trained nor had good role models. So we lead as we were led.
We wing it. And we tend to do what comes naturally, blind to the fact that good leadership practice is often the opposite of “what comes naturally”.
What’s more, we are all blind to the internal barriers that are preventing us from becoming good leaders. That’s why we need coaches to point out those blind spots to us. And that’s why Tiger Woods hires 8 coaches to work with him at the same time.
The truth is, leaders are not trained — they are developed. No one-time training course is going to fix your leadership gap. Training MUST be combined with coaching in order to ensure that workshop participants apply what they learn, and that they refine their leadership practices over time.
Coaching Process
All processes are custom designed for the particular leader and his/her organization. The general approach however, consists of:
1. PRINT — a strengths-based assessment to determine the leader’s strengths
2. MindScan — an assessment on how the leader thinks
3. Interviews with peers, supervisors and direct reports regarding their perception of the leader
4. Co-creation of action plans to achieve desires
5. Environmental design — corporate culture design
Benefits You Can Expect
a. Ability to inspire direct reports to action
b. Less stress
c. Increased morale
d. Environment that empowers rather than depletes people
