In this webinar delivered for the IIC&M Bettina Pickering explains why coaches are in effect leaders, and leaders should adopt a coaching style.
She covers the
- key qualities that great coaches and leaders have in common
- 3 core coaching/leadership qualities with practical examples drawn from her research of interviewing/surveying 30 coaches globally
- self-leadership and a process to develop each quality further
Paired Comparison Analysis: A Practical Tool for Evaluating Options and Prior...
The Coach as Leader and Leader as Coach
1. THE COACH AS A LEADER, THE
LEADER AS A COACH
WITH
BETTINA PICKERING
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Experience / Background
▪ Production Engineer in Germany
▪ 13 years as a global management consultant for people and
culture change
▪ 5 years as director of my own consulting, training and coaching
business (www.aronagh.com)
Qualifications
▪ Life & Executive Coach Diploma
▪ NLP Master Practitioner & Trainer
▪ MA in applied Coaching
▪ Energetic NLP
▪ Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling
▪ Leadership Embodiment & Somatic Intelligence
▪ Psychosensory Techniques & Principles (Psy-Tap)
▪ Hypnosis Mastery
▪ Teacher for a medical, martial and health Qi Gong
Additional information
• Transformative Coach &
Mentor
• Leadership trainer
• Behavioural Change
Consultant
• Qi Gong teacher
BETTINA PICKERING - BIO
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CONTENTS
▪ Key qualities that great coaches and leaders have in
common
▪ Exploring 3 core coaching/leadership qualities with
practical examples
▪ how do you know you have got them
▪ what impact they have on you, your coaching/leadership
effectiveness and your client
▪ how you can keep honing these qualities, and become even
better at what you do
▪ Self-leadership and how you can use coaching to lead
yourself
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LEADERSHIP IN THE UK
Leadership is the
biggest talent problem
in the UK for 86% of
organisations
Source: Deloitte’s Human Capital
Trends Survey 2015
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WEAK LEADERSHIP COMES AT A COST
£4.1 billion per year
…. and that is in
staff turnover
ONLY!
Source: CIPD
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KEY REASONS
1. Capability gap between leadership
culture & employee culture
2. Lack of investment into continuous
learning for current leaders
3. Planning for leadership for potential
leaders
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OVER TO YOU
Question: What does ‘leader’
mean to you?
Please type your answer in the question
box.
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POLL
Question: Do you believe these 5 qualities
are shared between leaders and coaches?
▪ Yes
▪ No
Please put your reason for our vote into the
question box.
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KEY COACH QUALITIES
The top seven:
▪ Authenticity
▪ Presence
▪ Empathy (this includes care)
▪ Emotional Intelligence
▪ Unconditionality
▪ Holding Space
▪ Client empowerment
MA survey of 30 coaches globally, 2014-2015
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KEY COACH QUALITIES
The top seven:
▪ Authenticity
▪ Presence
▪ Empathy (this includes care)
▪ Emotional Intelligence
▪ Unconditionality
▪ Holding Space
▪ Client empowerment
MA survey of 30 coaches globally, 2014-2015
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2 MAIN ROLES OF A COACH
1. To facilitate client self-awareness
and self-learning
2. To facilitate change towards an
outcome
Sources: O’Connor & Langes; Zeus & Skiffington
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ROLES OF A LEADER VS ROLE OF A
COACH
Roles of a Leader
1. To clearly lay out
a vision &
strategy
2. They lead the way
3. To facilitate
followers to
achieve results
Roles of a Coach
1. To facilitate client
self-awareness
and self-learning
2. To facilitate
change towards
an outcome
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TOP 6 21ST CENTURY LEADERSHIP
QUALITIES
1. Manage change before circumstances force their
hand
2. See opportunity in everything
3. Innovates & learns rapidly
4. Have everyone’s best interests at heart
5. Inspires and motivates others through their own
passion & commitment
6. Focus on the individual’s strengths not just results
Source: Forbes: 6 characteristics of 21st century leaders; Kosmos – Journal for Global
Transformation: Contemporary leaders of courage and compassion
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WE NEED A RANGE OF QUALITIES TO
FULFIL OUR ROLE AS A COACH
7 Coach Qualities
• Authenticity
• Presence
• Empathy (this includes
care)
• Emotional Intelligence
• Unconditionality
• Holding Space
• Client empowerment
Role of the coach
1. To facilitate client self-
awareness & self-
learning
Role of the coach
2. To facilitate change
towards an outcome
21st Century Leadership
qualities
• Have everyone’s best
interests at heart
• Inspires and motivates
others through their own
passion & commitment
• Focus on the individual’s
strengths not just results
21 Century Leadership
qualities
• Manage change before
circumstances force
their hand
• See opportunity in
everything
• Innovates & learns
rapidly
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COACHES ARE LEADERS
We lead our clients
▪ Through a process
▪ To self-awareness
▪ To learning
▪ Through or around
obstacles
▪ To different
perspectives
▪ ……
We lead ourselves
▪ To become even
better coaches
▪ To self-awareness
▪ Through our own
challenges
▪ ……
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POLL
Question: Do you agree with the Go
there first principle?
▪ Yes
▪ No
Please put your reason for your choice into
the question box.
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PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH
How do coaches go there first?
▪ Are using their own tools / techniques for their own
self-care
▪ Address their own issues proactively
▪ Continuous learning & professional development
▪ Have their own coaches and mentors
▪ Have some form of supervision
Sources:
Bettina Pickering’s MA in applied Coaching Survey of 30 coaches
globally, 2014 – 2015;
Bluckert, 2006
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EXAMPLES FROM MA COACHING
SURVEY
▪ Take time before the session to clear their mind ready for
their client
▪ Use presence based exercises regularly to get to become
more present to themselves
▪ During the session, allow soft focus to be present to the
client and oneself
▪ After the session, clear anything from the session and
work on whatever was triggered by the client (if
applicable)
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WHAT IS SELF-LEADERSHIP
Self leadership as having a developed sense
of
▪ who you are,
▪ what you can do,
▪ where you are going coupled with
▪ the ability to influence your
communication, emotions and
behaviour on the way to getting there
Source: Bryan, Kazan, 2012 – Self-Leadership
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A SUGGESTED PROCESS
Focus: Pick
one coaching
quality
Decide:
What does it
mean to
you?
Discover:
Where are
you now?
Commit:
One action
for your next
client
session
Develop:
How do you
want to be?
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THANK YOU
To get in touch with me:
Web: www.bettinapickering.com
E-mail: bettina@bettinapickering.com
FB: www.facebook.com/bettinapickeringauthor
Twitter: @Bettina_Author
As a thank you for attending I have a gift for
you:
www.bettinapickering.com/resources/gifts