A Coaching Approach to Leadership

In all walks of life, we often find we have pressures on our time. This can happen in our careers and in our personal lives. It can often feel that we have a million and one things to do. When we get drawn into completing lots of tasks, having many meetings, and rushing from one place to another, we can sometimes find ourselves on the "Hamster Wheel of Life".

This is especially true in leadership. We are leading our people and need to influence stakeholders, support and motivate others, make crucial decisions and drive our businesses. When we are on the "Hamster Wheel of Life", this can sometimes lead us to go to autopilot with our approaches. When on autopilot, we are often operating without too much forethought.

A Coaching Approach to Leadership will allow you to pause for reflection. To help look at how we do things and offer suggestions to help add other approaches to our repertoire. This book describes the different approaches we can take and asks questions throughout. This is designed to help the reader look at their methods and see where we can adopt other approaches.

Coaching is fundamental to leadership in the 21st century. If you are a leader of people, this book will give you ideas on adopting a coaching approach more consistently. The book will also pose questions for you to reflect on, much like you would experience in a coaching setting. Through reflection, we can grow our awareness and flexibility.

Through our awareness and flexibility, perhaps we can step off the "Hamster Wheel Of Life" and create empowering environments where all people can thrive. If we can create this for our people, perhaps the pressures on our time will shrink, and we will be able to savour the real reasons we went into leadership.