What’s your leadership style?
How do you show up as a leader? People want leaders who coach them to continuously learn and grow. Yet, only 7% of leaders know how to coach. Even “successful” leaders can lack the skills or mindset to coach. What’s the impact?
Despite good intentions, it can be easy to get sucked into a mindless cycle of navigating through the day. We speed through meetings, check things off the list, and hastily text, like, post, friend, follow or hit reply all. When the heat is on, many leaders think that they inspire collective greatness to rise — when in fact they tell people what to do. Even some of the most talented, successful, educated, creative, technical and ingeniously brilliant leaders can lack the skills or mindset to coach — especially in times of stress.
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
The impact?
Being told what to do is demotivating and demoralizing. One in two people have left a job because of a bad boss, and just one in five people feel they are managed in a way that inspires them to be better. It’s no wonder that 66% of people are disengaged at work, and that the quit rate is at an all time high. “Bad” demotivating bosses impart a sense of dread of going to work, and make a dream job feel more like a dead end. The demoralizing spiral of distress zaps social-emotional energy and exacts a toll on collective body, mind, and spirit — and the bottomline.
When leaders coach, greatness grows!
Being a coaching leader is a skill you can learn, and is a valuable professional asset. Because people want leaders like you who value and coach them to continuously learn and grow. Growing managers into leaders who coach and cultivate individual character strengths and purpose is a powerful tool organizations can use to increase engagement, commitment, meaning and happiness — which, in turn, can augment the corporate agenda.
Building a strengths coaching culture can energize a happier, healthier, and more meaningful place to work. Coaching can reduce bias, churn, social exclusion, loneliness, and promote transformational professional and business growth. Organizations with strong coaching cultures report revenues above industry peer groups (46% vs 39%) and people who are more highly engaged (61% vs. 53%).
Leaders who value people as individuals and employees — and use a coaching leadership approach — play a vital role in growing meaningful careers, personal goals and purposeful impact. Be the leader who inspires people to do their most meaningful work and fulfill their greatest potential to shape a better tomorrow — together.
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