Great Leaders Must Be Great Coaches: Here's How to Become One

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What makes A great chief? OUR traditional visions of direction often center around A alone hero socket charge And cartography A bold path For others has follow. But In My years of research on direction development And My experience training hundreds of executives has high businesses, I have find that successful leaders are a lot more relational And cooperative that This exceeds see imagine.

A entrepreneurial chief coaches her team has release their complete potential. She help team members develop A vision For their ideal versions of themselves And fuels their intrinsic motivation has bring these ideal self has life. Your job as A chief East not has blaze A path alone. He East has inspire your team has move Before together.

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HAS be A successful chief, You must become A expert In how has help others to grow And develop. Unfortunately, a lot of THE existing models For professional And staff development to focus on setting goals, follow up progress And measure results — And inevitably lead has feelings of failure And disappointment When We autumn short. These punitive, results oriented models don't do it offer THE inspiration And support people need has fuel sustainable change.

There East A better path has coach your team. THE research focused approach I teach has Babson College Arthur Mr. Empty School For Enterprising Direction East base on two existing behavioral change models that are built around internal psychological development And self realisation, instead of externally imposed metrics.

Intentional change theory (TIC), developed by Richard Boyatzsis, apply that people change themselves In A supported path by manufacturing five self-discoveries, which I will explain In detail below. These self-discoveries lead has A vision of OUR ideal self, which serve as OUR North Star as We to grow And develop, And A process For align OUR current self with OUR ideals.

Edward L. Desi And Richard Ryan's self-determination theory (SDT) argues that THE odds For supported change are The highest When people are led by intrinsic motivation — their self-developed, internal motivations For change — as opposite has external motivators such as pay And to rent out. We are most likely has reach This intrinsic motivation When three basic needs are satisfied: autonomy (A sense of be autonomous), relationship (A sense of connection with And care For And Since others) And skill (A sense of self-confidence In OUR words And actions).

HAS be A great coach And Effectively develop your team, You must meet these three TSD needs that are THE springboard For intrinsic motivation, And SO to use that motivation has help your team members reach supported change by guidance them through THE TIC Discovery process. I will explain THE Discovery process stage by stage has demonstrate Exactly how he works, And You can read more In My paper on This subject For Direction Quarterly.

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First of all, successful coaches encourage people has find their ideal self — THE initial Discovery. THE ideal self East some ambitious see of WHO they to want has become Or What they to want has TO DO, instead of What they feel obliged Or expected has be. THE ideal self serves as A guidance light giving life has some aspirations And Actions.

You can help team members identify their ideal self by ask target questions has develop A vision statement For WHO they Ultimately to want has be. A vision statement is it that...