S7 E41-44 Coach your way to Exceptional Leadership with Lisa Askwith 'Engaging Your People for Success'

S7 E41-44. (Engaging Your People for Success) Nurture Your People to Success by Removing Internal Bias

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Coach your way to Exceptional Leadership- 4 Part series
This is a 4 part series to give you the key insights, and steps that you need to be able to achieve to ensure you are effectively getting the benefits of developing your leadership via coaching. 

Part 1- Exceptional Leaders- Build your Mindset First
Part 2- Use coaching core skills to make you an Exceptional Leader
Part 3- Core Coaching skills to develop you into an Exceptional Leader
Part 4- Coaching, Mentoring and Authenticity- how to combine these core skills to become an Exceptional Leader
Introduction- Ep41- Part 1 Exceptional Leaders- Build your Mindset First

Coaching is an often forgotten or unrated skill, which is actually a core need if you want to be an exceptional leader. I am not saying you are becoming a coach instead of a leader, but you are integrating the core skills of a great coach into your tool kit, allowing you to have more open and beneficial conversations with your people, allowing you to become their cheerleader without even thinking about, and ultimately leading you to a place of exceptional leadership and highly engaged people in your teams. This is good for them and good for you, so a great win- win in any type of business.

 Becoming a leader that has a clear focus on developing a their core coaching skills, is key to engaging the new value based workforce, they want to give and receive value, and if you have coaching skills it makes it much easier for you to uncover and develop this core need, so why not capitalise on that and allow your people engagement and business results to soar! A focus on being an exceptional leader via coaching, will allow your people to really engage with your business and provide unexpected yet beneficial ideas and results, which are critical for your future business success. Plus it’s a core part of your people engagement tool kit. Something you can actually utilize in many cases at very lost cost with a high level of positive rewards.

To develop your leadership mindset and lead teams, there are several areas you need to focus on developing, Covey sums it up well, and suggests 6 critical factors, I have added 2 more to meet the needs of the modern workforce.gives some great insight into this development

Critical Practices For Developing your Leadership Mindset and Leading A Team:
 
 
1.Understand what you need to do to Develop a Leader's Mindset, and progressively work towards it. You are shifting from an individual contributor to someone who gets things done through engaging others.

2.Hold Regular 1-on-1s.

3.Set up Your Team to Get Results.

4.Create a Culture of Feedback.

5.Lead Your Team Through Change.

6.Manage Your Time and Energy.

7.Focus on your own development- Training is important

8.Develop a leadership network internally and externally

A big part of displaying your leadership mindset is being capable of developing a workplace around you that displays emotional safety. Lots of leaders think they can do this easily, but in reality it is simply not that easy, they tend to miss many keys steps to acceptance. And jump straight to saying they have an open door policy and everyone should use it. In reality this does not work, and you often need to unwind years of habit and beliefs. Check your ability to do this and ask for help if needed.


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Most businesses and leaders need help to really see this key area with ‘fresh eyes’. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at lisa@apexbrs.com for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help.

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Part 2- Ep 42 Use coaching core skills to make you an Exceptional Leader

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To make this possible you need some key steps to work really well for you, these are;
 

• Strong leadership in place that is focused on developing a supportive and positive people culture- regular 360 degree feedback and culture surveys
  
• Consistent and constant leadership training that reflects the company values, culture and empathic leadership
  
• Visible leaders
  
• Leaders walking the talk
  
• Available leaders- working teams can help with this
  
• A living breathing culture that is distributed through all parts of the business
  
• Regular open communication
  
• Regular praise and recognition
  
• Psychological safety
  
• Leaders who are exceptional coaches and mentors- as this is the key development step that allows them to become truly authentic and empathetic.
  

Then focus on developing your coaching skills one, the first area to focus on is your ability to interact with your people through thoughtful, supportive and insightful questioning.

Use the GROW model to help you structure this- The GROW Model Explained for Coaches (Plus Special Report .PDF) | The Launchpad - The Coaching Tools Company Blog



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Most businesses and leaders need help to really see this key area with ‘fresh eyes’. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at lisa@apexbrs.com for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help.

Tags; strategy and culture, aligning culture and strategy, strategy implementation, strategy vs culture, culture and strategy, business strategy, strategic planning, strategy software, humantelligence alignment, organizational culture, cultural change, strategy cascade, strategy, culture, align team goals, objectives, technology, people, training, continuous improvement

Part 3, EP 43- Core Coaching skills to develop you into an Exceptional Leader

A good coach brings specific and well-defined issues to the attention of others. Being unspecific about problem areas, or failing to bring them up with the appropriate parties, suggests a reluctance to affect positive change and a lack of leadership. Confront issues in a positive coaching mindset, don't hide from them!
 
A good coach is,
•        positive,
•        enthusiastic,
•        supportive,
•        trusting,
•        focused, 
•        goal-oriented,
•        knowledgeable,
•        observant,
•        respectful,
•        patient
•   and a clear communicator. So essentially a skilled and empathetic leader.


You need leadership to make everything work particularly when it comes to engaging your people and developing both trust and a culture you can be proud of.

Develop a leadership network internally and externally
 

• This is key for pulling everything together
• It will help you stay ahead of change
• It allows you to grow though exposure, and capitalizing on others successes and failures
• It gives you new options and ways of thinking
• It increases your leadership presence
• It stops you from stagnating
• It allows you to appreciate more points of view

 
 
 
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Most businesses and leaders need help to really achieve this. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at lisa@apexbrs.com for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help.

Tags; strategy and culture, aligning culture and strategy, strategy implementation, strategy vs culture, culture and strategy, business strategy, strategic planning, strategy software, humantelligence alignment, organizational culture, cultural change, strategy cascade, strategy, culture, align team goals, objectives, technology, people, training, continuous improvement

Part 4- EP 44- Coaching, Mentoring and Authenticity- how to combine these core skills to become an Exceptional Leader

To help you solidify your coaching skills as an exceptional leader, you need to focus on how you can retain your leadership mindset into the future, through challenge, and stay relevant and up to date. To do this, the next step is developing your growth mindset.
 
 
Growth Mindset: “In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.” 
(Dweck, 2015)


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Having a growth mindset means you believe in yourself and especially in your ability to change, learn and develop. ... In the Growth Mindset, errors are seen as the natural part of learning and the students with a Growth Mindset, process their mistakes and correct them and that way they also learn from them. This allows you to use your coaching skills, your authenticity and mentoring in order to become an exceptional leader, as you are willing to change and do better and learn from your mistakes not ignore or hide them.
 
 
Consistently as we restructure companies and help them achieve success by engaging their people, we are seeing a common theme established as to what an authentic leader looks like. My top 10 traits that you should be looking for both in yourself and your leadership team are;
1. Self-awareness and constant self improvement
2. Lead with heart
3. Focus on long-term results
4. Integrity
5. Lead with vision
6. Listening skills
7. Transparency
8. Consistency
9. Share success with the team
10. Drawing on experience

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Most businesses and leaders need help to really see this key area with ‘fresh eyes’. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at lisa@apexbrs.com for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help.

Tags; strategy and culture, aligning culture and strategy, strategy implementation, strategy vs culture, culture and strategy, business strategy, strategic planning, strategy software, humantelligence alignment, organizational culture, cultural change, strategy cascade, strategy, culture, align team goals, objectives, technology, people, training, continuous improvement


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Written by Lisa Askwith
Director of ApexBRS | ApexBRS, Regional Director of See Global Media, Chair of  EGN Singapore, and Associate Professor Cambridge Corporate University | At the Age of Change, providing the HR component of the Global Executive MBA and BBA. Lisa has worked for some of the largest companies in the world and successfully led restructures and change management programs in order to improve the bottom line through engaging the people for success, while developing exceptional leaders who can make a positive impact on Culture and long term business sustainability.

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