Your questions. Your expertise. Your answers.
You’re the expert in your situation.
You’re creative and capable.
Still, you may benefit from a thinking partner who will:
ask key questions,
encourage you to be uncomfortable so you can grow,
hold space for uncertainty until answers emerge,
help find joy and humor in the midst of ambiguity,
elicit clarity, and
be an accountability partner when desired.
This is what coaching offers.
What is coaching for leaders?
Coaching is a conversation that begins with clarifying and thought-provoking questions from the coach. The answers emerge from your expertise, knowledge, talents, and values.
Through questions and dialogue, the coach provides independent feedback and acts as a catalyst in you uncovering your own solutions. The coach points you beyond your comfort zone into territory where growth occurs.
Coaching is not consulting. Coaches partner with you in finding your answers, in building your capacities and understandings, in your growth. Coaches can help you understand the system you’re working in, consider strategies for change, and effect team and culture transformations.
Coaches help you develop your leadership to meet the circumstance.
What about Consulting?
With consulting I bring my expertise into the conversation more directly, often for a team or organization rather than an individual. I can help you strengthen your team dynamics, clarify your goals, and develop plans to achieve them.
If you’re curious, contact me to schedule a free 20-minute online meeting to discuss what you hope to accomplish. If it’s a fit, together we’ll create a plan for our work together to move toward your goals.
When should I consider coaching?
Are you an emerging leader? Are you a seasoned leader looking to continue growing?
Whether your leadership is professional or personal, formal or informal, or even aspirational - coaching offers the opportunity to evaluate problems and consider new solutions, new skills, and new approaches, to challenge yourself with new ideas and new behaviors. It can help you move your team and organization to higher levels of trust and performance.
When should you consider coaching?
When you’re ready to invest in your growth as a leader.
When you’re facing a challenge beyond your current capacity.
When you want to build your communication skills and ability to develop leadership in others.
When you want to develop your team’s capacity to work together.
When you want to grow your group leadership skills.
When you want to stop being the bottleneck in your own success.
When you need to focus on priorities.
When you need a fresh perspective.
When you’re struggling to make a difficult decision.