Leadership through coaching
How can you encourage curiosity, creative problem solving, and collaboration? (mihai surdu for unsplash)
How can you encourage curiosity, creative problem solving, and collaboration?
Many new managers see their role primarily as directing or problem-solving, when in reality, guiding and empowering team members through coaching can have far more lasting benefits. Coaching, which builds people from the inside out, is one of the most powerful tools a leader can use. Sadly, many managers don’t see coaching as a key part of their role.
Which is a shame because coaching facilitates your team’s growth. Managers who use coaching as a tool encourage curiosity, creative problem solving, and collaboration in their team. They unlock the potential of their team members and help them build confidence, responsible autonomy, and resilience.
How coaching helps your team
When you adopt a coaching mindset, you become a better listener, more empathetic, and more adaptable. Your questions are more insightful, you further develop your emotional intelligence, and you foster a culture of trust and accountability within your team.
How coaching helps you
Although it may appear daunting, it's easy to quickly ramp up your coaching skills because you have so many opportunities to integrate coaching into everyday interactions, e.g. shifting from telling someone what to do, to asking them what they think they should do.
A manager who coaches also becomes stronger, more effective, and more attuned to their own potential.
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Now, go be brilliant!
Ellia
I coach emerging managers who want to excel at their work without losing their spark. I show them how to build and lead a creative team that consistently delivers new ideas and solves difficult problems while having fun, so they can have a work experience that’s rewarding and meaningful, and which gets them noticed.