Whole Leader Coaching
What is coaching and how is Whole Leader EQ Coaching different?
What is Leadership coaching?
Coaching is generally described as a collaborative learning relationship in which the client defines the agenda and the coach serves as a committed listener, resource and champion of the client’s potential. Coaching is all about the client’s development, in whatever areas he or she wishes to grow.
Leadership coaching typically involves behavioral change. (Some leadership coaching is focused on business and strategic development.) A leader works with a coach to develop a plan of action that addresses behaviors that when improved can affect performance.
Typically, leadership coaching focuses on aspects of leadership related to communication, delegation, decision-making and conflict management. Sometimes the coaching is developmental – building new leadership skills; other times the coaching is corrective, finding ways to overcome behaviors that are interfering with productivity as it relates to people and processes.
What’s different about EQ At Work’s Whole Leader Coaching?
While Whole Leader Coaching is, in most ways, similar to leadership coaching previously described, there are a few important differences:
- Authentic Leadership Goal: Whole Leader coaching uses the development of emotional intelligence as a primary tool to enable you to access and express your most authentically powerful, creative and effective self – the authentic leader within you.
- A Step-By-Step Process: Whole Leader coaching provides a step-by-step process to develop and apply the core skills of emotional intelligence. A part of each coaching session is focused on experiencing and demonstrating the skills.
- Cause Not Just Effect: During each session you and your coach also address real leadership situations you are confronting. Using the principles of emotional intelligence, mindfulness and personal responsibility, you address the root cause of issues and create purpose-centered actions to achieve new results.
- You Develop Emotional Competency: You learn the principles and practices that develop emotional competence and enable authenticity. Using the EQ At Work Model as a guide you will learn the core emotional intelligence skills: Emotional –Self-awareness, Emotional Decision-Making, Emotional Awareness of Others, Emotional Influence of self and others, Effective emotional self-expression, and Emotional self-control.
- Developing New Leadership Competency: You make the connections betwen emotional skills and leadership competency and develop powerful techniques for more effective communication, decision-making, and influence.
- Coaching Plan With Books: The initial coaching plan provides 12 sessions and comes with a modular development kit that provides concepts and practice activities to support your development. This tools provides value for review and reinforcement long after your coaching is complete.
