Why Leaders Should Consider Shifting To A Coaching Leadership Style

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Why Leaders Should Consider Shifting To A Coaching Leadership Style
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Team leads can have a direct and significant impact on team performance. Unfortunately, many leaders do not perform well and cause a lot of additional work and stress to their members.

For this reason, leaders need to learn how to motivate and lead their teams. And this is what coaching leadership style is about.

There are different styles of leadership that organizations can adopt. One is democratic leadership which involves employees in making leadership decisions. There is also servant leadership which involves leaders supporting team members. There are also charismatic leadership, situational leadership or a combination of different styles. Amidst all these leadership styles, there is also the coaching style where the leader takes the role of a coach. Leaders invest their time in developing team members and showing them how they impact a larger team and the organization as a whole.

There are many advantages to the coaching style which makes it stand out among other leadership styles and includes the following:

1) Develops stronger relationships between leaders and members

2) Builds trust between the parties

3) Drives long-term results

4) Encourages initiative and allows team members to work with less supervision

5)Helps team members realize their full potential and accelerate their self-development

6) Fosters collaboration, cooperation and teamwork

7) Promotes high employee retention and positive culture

Shifting to a coaching leadership style entails honing and improving the following professional development skills:

Communication skills

Communication is an integral part of any organization and it is also important to become an effective coaching leader. You should know how to clearly communicate with your team members so that there will be transparency.

Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence is something related to humility in leadership. With high emotional intelligence, a leader can become more self-aware, empathetic, perceptive, and compassionate of others which in turn can build more trusting relationships among members.

Business knowledge

A popular cliche says that you can’t teach what you don’t know. As a leader coach, you should have a clear understanding of how your business works and what your goals are.

Approachable

A good coach is someone you can easily talk to, and this should be true for team leaders who follow the coaching leadership style. There should be a certain level of approachability so that team members won’t feel hesitant to approach you whenever there are important matters to discuss.

If you want to follow a coaching leadership style, it can’t happen overnight because you need certain skills that can take time to develop. However, you can get started by taking advantage of leadership training. Change Works offers a program called “Leader as a Coach” designed to train and develop leaders and managers who want to effectively coach their teams.

Moreover, there are also resources online that will teach you more about becoming a leadership coach. With the vast resources available for you, there’s no stopping you from becoming an effective leader coach.

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