Leadership Coaching New Zealand

• You are a professional (Engineer, Health Professional, Science or Technology manager, HR, Accountant, Lawyer, Pilot, etc.) who has taken on a management role, and you want to have better conversations with your team about performance and development, delegation, leading change,, managing talent, hybrid teams, or delegation.
• You want to build confidence in your people skills, and be collaborative and assertive with colleagues

What is leadership coaching?

Leadership coaching is a collaborative conversation that helps the client improve their leadership, influence and impact in leadership positions. A professional coach collaborates closely with leaders to identify their strengths, development interests , goals, and challenges and work with them to achieve the clients goals.

The coach acts as a sounding board, and accountability partner for the leader. The coach uses a variety of tools, and methodologies to help the leader discover their own solutions, learn and practice new skills, and change their behaviour in ways that support their goals.

How Does Leadership Coaching Work?

Leadership coaching consists of one-on-one sessions in which a coach works with aspiring leaders to identify their strengths, development needs, and goals. Within a collaborative conversation, the coach provides support, challenge, reflection and feedback to help leaders improve their skills, overcome obstacles, and achieve their goals. Leaders learn about their leadership style, communication skills, decision-making abilities, and emotional intelligence through open dialogue and exploration. Coaches challenge limiting beliefs, promote growth, and ensure accountability. Finally, coaching enables leaders to reach their potential, drive personal and organisational success, and encourage a culture of continuous improvement and development among their teams.

Benefits of Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching has numerous advantages for both individuals and organisations. Coaching works to develop the leader's specific needs and goals, enabling improved self-awareness, communication, decision-making, and emotional intelligence skills to increase leadership effectiveness. Coaching also helps to accelerate career growth by unlocking leadership potential and expanding opportunities for advancement. Stronger leaders improve team performance, fostering engagement, retention and a culture of collaboration. Furthermore, coaching encourages a supportive environment in which leaders feel empowered to take risks and learn from mistakes. Overall, coaching helps organisations succeed by developing confident, resilient, and influential leaders who inspire others and drive positive change.

Self-Insight in Leadership

Special idea. Self insight is a critical first step in developing yourself as a leader. Knowing your talents helps you understand how you can become more of who you already are? What is fueling your success? Knowing your gaps helps you target and prioritise capabilities that may be holding you back from being the leader you want to be. What may be holding you back?

• What genuine information do you possess about yourself?
• What are your strengths?
• What is holding you back from being your best self

To help you make a start, I have a short confidential and free skills survey, the Leader Blueprint. You can use the Leader Blueprint to begin exploring your strengths and gaps and start navigating the path of your growth as a leader. The Leader Blueprint  will help you identify your profile on a set of key leadership capabilities, and begin building the self insight that is fundamental to leading others.