Coaching for Individual Leadership
Coaching for individual leadership will provide you with an understanding of the functioning of a person's leadership capacity and will enable you to discover ways you can access it more consistently in order to realize higher levels of performance, success and fulfillment. In addition to realizing how your capacity for leadership works and how to access it more consistently, Sem will work with you to create appropriate goals, plans and strategies to achieve your desired levels of performance and satisfaction.
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Everyone leads. We are all, whether we know it or not, influenced by the "leaders" around us. Politicians, bosses, pastors, parents, and local authorities are influencing us every day. We are influenced by neighbors, strangers on the local highway, grocery store clerks, children --- everyone. Each of us, therefore, is influencing others around us, everyday, whether we know it or not. Leadership is the capacity to influence other people and your environment purposefully and with good intention. People could argue that leadership is simply influencing other people and your environment, but than this is inclusive of negative forms of leadership, and that is not typically what we think of when we use the term leadership. We all know of people in "leadership" positions and who influence others and their environment, yet are not model leaders.
This capacity to lead, as we have defined it, is innate in every human being. Some people have realized this capacity yet cannot access it on a consistent basis. Others have not even realized their capacity to lead. Coaching for Individual Leadership is designed to guide people's realization of their leadership capacity and discover how this capacity functions in order to access it more often.
Results
Coaching for individual leadership will provide you with an understanding of the functioning of a person's leadership capacity and will enable you to discover ways you can access it more consistently in order to realize:
- Less stress
- A healthier ability to relate to conflict
- Improved decisiveness
- Improved work performance
- More satisfying and productive relationships (work/home)
- More effective planning
- Greater creativity
In addition to realizing how your capacity for leadership works and how better to access it more regularly, you and your coach will partner in creating appropriate goals, plans and strategies to achieve higher levels of performance and satisfaction.
Methods
Rather than focus on specific strategies or techniques to develop a person's ability to lead, Coaching for Individual Leadership cuts to the heart of the matter. Many other coaching methods tend to get distracted by the techniques or strategies and assume that one strategy is appropriate for everyone or every situation. Your internal capacity for leadership is what enables you to employ the appropriate strategy at the appropriate time. We have all experienced that "in the zone" feeling. The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi identified it as "flow." In these "optimal performance" experiences, we are accessing our leadership capacity. There is a science behind how this works. There are principles working together to produce our ability to lead at any given moment. A realization of how this capacity functions, how these principles create our moment to moment experience, enables us to identify strategies that connect us to it more of the time.
Structure
The coaching relationship will last a minimum of 6-10 months and often continues indefinitely on an as requested basis. An initial meeting that lasts about 2 hours will help you and your coach establish a familiarity with each other and begin to identify how best to structure the relationship going forward.
Coaching for individual leadership grounds you in the understanding of the principles behind leadership capacity, and then creates a plan that will help you apply the understanding to all aspects of your life.