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So how can leadership programs help?
Before we can demonstrate our leadership by leading others, first we develop personal leadership skills, we need to lead ‘self’ first.
We are all a product of our past experiences – all that we have absorbed through our sensory experiences becomes embedded deep into our unconscious in the form of our values, beliefs and mental rules.
In the daily hustle of doing our job roles, we seldom stop to question our unconscious belief system. The first step to becoming a powerful leader is to first build your personal leadership skills before learning to lead others.
The best leadership programs start with raising your consciousness to help you create awareness of whether your belief system supports your current day functioning? Does it allow you to show up with your full resourcefulness or are you leading in an auto mode without pausing to calibrate your thinking, acknowledging your feelings or modifying your behaviour.
As a leader you are poised to have an impact on many followers who will role model what you demonstrate. A leadership program will enable you to pause, to think, to modify the beliefs that are holding you back and be the leader that can maximise his/her impact on the followers.
The best leadership programs will enable you to be a leader worth following by
So how to find the best leadership development programs online?
When you are looking for a leadership program online, look for those that help you examine your inner belief system, that enables you to experience change during the program, that are thought provoking and not prescriptive. Look for online leadership programs that ensure that you have a SMART personal leadership plan with mechanisms embedded in it to hold yourself accountable for consistent efforts to bring about the transformation you want.
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So what to ask from an executive coach?
For those who are new to executive coaching, you may not know what to expect in the first session.
The Discovery session is an important session to get maximum mileage out of the coaching engagement. As the name suggests, discovery is about sharing your vision, your dreams and what you want to achieve through the coaching journey. It is about taking stock of the current reality and examining your values. It is also about affirming your strengths and using all this knowledge to design your Coaching goals along with your coach. Discovery session will help you define what is truly important to you at this stage in your life.
So what exactly to ask from an Executive Coach?
A trained and skilled Coach can answer any questions that you might have about how the coaching will work. The coach will explain to you what to expect from the Discovery session and what kind topics can be brought to the session. The coach will answer any question that arises in your mind.
You can also ask about confidentiality and what is the Code of Ethics that your coach follows. This can allow you to be free to share what is on you mind and be vulnerable.
Why hire an executive coach to set you on the path to self-discovery?
Because coaches are trained to listen – to listen to what you say and what you don’t say. Their single agenda is to enable you to work through what might be holding you back and maximise your impact in business and in life. In every session a coach brings his/her lifetime of experience to use it for your benefit through listening, asking, supporting and also challenging appropriately. Executive Coaches will enable you to overcome your deep seated beliefs to grow into your most powerful persona.
So next time don’t think too hard about what to ask from an Executive Coach. Share your vulnerabilities and let the Coach do the job that you hired them to do.
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