Leader As CoachGoal Attainment

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Leadership Coaching and Consulting

As a leader, you have to use multiple strategies to get the work done. People are different and how they respond to your leadership style may be good – or neutral – or bad. But there is one method, one skill set that when learned and put into practice – is effective with nearly all of the people you lead. It is the skill of coaching.

Training and Workshops

LEADER AS COACH

People don’t engage with “what” you do as much as they engage with “why” you do it.
~ R.A. Weigel
When I was going through my coach training, I remember a night when I suddenly said, “This is it… this is the missing link.”

My mind immediately had a picture of a chain and I saw the “missing link” to transforming the education dilemma that consistently plagued my mind. It was the skill of coaching. I’ve always wanted to bring about the best schools, great achievement, and have teachers who were consistently overjoyed with the way things were going.

But too often I was stopped, detoured, or undermined along the way.

When I reflect on it now, if I had mastered the skills of coaching when I was leading schools, my work could have gone to the next level – and the next – and the next. In addition, I also realize that I needed a coach to help me to be more confident in my decisions, know how to miss the land mines, and overcome the subtle tricks of those who oppose me.

Now… what about you?

Nobody can rise to their full potential without a Christian coach.
Coaching is not a skill that sits by itself or is used “once in a while” to bring about something you want to be changed.
It is “the best” leadership skill you wish you had learned when you first thought about taking on that leadership role.

Coaching skills will transform a person or an institution. The coaching mindset works in tandem or in combination with your other leadership skills to do what is needed at the right time. Whether you’re mentoring, consulting, directing, detailing, supporting, designing, strategizing, counseling, advising, or simply helping someone – there is always a time when the best choice you can make is to use a “Coach Approach” and let the others find and own the process, goals, work, solutions, and results. Using a Coach Approach is a game-changer.

And… if you’ve had problems with accountability, then this is just what you’ve been looking for.

Aren’t you ready to finally have a leadership strategy that works for all the people in your life? If you are – let’s schedule a 30-minute call and talk about it.
Training and Workshops

Goal Attainment

Most of us don’t get what we want because we quit praying. We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens. ~ Mark Batterson

#1 What Do You Really Want?

More people do not get what they want simply because they don’t know what they want. Do you know what you want? Does your organization know what they want? And if all you want is money – you’ve already set the wrong goal.

Setting a goal is a very serious undertaking. It means that you’re personally committing to something that is important to you. Nobody can truly set a goal for you. Sure, there are corporate goals, team goals, group goals, and even societal goals – but unless those are your goals, they aren’t really goals – they’re benchmarks of accomplishment set by someone else. You may have to reach them or work toward them, but unless you own those goals, they will never come to fruition at the level they could – if you owned them.

There are tasks, demands, instructions, threats, targets and quotas that are thrust upon you by someone else. There are focus points that determine an overall direction, area of interest, results or outcomes that the organization wants. And while you may comply with the improperly named goals of others or an organization, it is still your decision if they reach into your heart to the point where they become important to you.

Your goals are yours!

You have to own them. And they are the focus for a period of time about something that you believe will make your life better.

Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day and how that time is used, (to some extent), is in your control. If you’ve set a personal goal and it hasn’t been part of your thinking within the past 24 hours, it is likely that you’ve set the wrong goal.

Your goals should be so important that you’re willing to do whatever is necessary to reach them.

Your goals should be so important that you’re willing to do whatever is necessary to reach them. It’s like traveling. You know your destination and recognize that it will take some time to get there. Your path may not always be straight, there will be some roadblocks, perhaps a detour, and you probably need to rest along the way. You’ll stop for sustenance, fuel, directions, and maybe even change vehicles. But once you’ve made up your mind that you’re going to get to that destination, you’ll keep traveling until you get there. And, if you are wise, you will be asking God for directions along the way because his directions are far better than Google maps.

Goal setting is a process that requires training. There are some very tough questions that have to be answered in order to set goals that will truly work.

If you’re ready to set some realistic goals for yourself – or if you want to set some goals for your team or organization, then this one-day workshop with the follow-up group coaching is what you’re looking for.

If you’re ready to help your teacher to stretch to new levels – let’s talk about a Goal Setting Workshop.