Are you looking for a way to accelerate your path to becoming a GREAT coach? A way to learn secrets master coaches wish they knew when they first started, without taking decades to get there?
This month, Google’s David Peterson and ICF Co-founder David Goldsmith will host a complimentary masterclass called Foundations of Great Coaching: Start Fast and I’d love you to be my guest.
In this live masterclass, David & David will show you how to get to the heart of client challenges in less time. You’ll discover how to focus on their most urgent needs first, build rapport faster, and position yourself powerfully as a leadership coach.
This masterclass will profoundly impact the way you coach!
Register for Foundations of Great Coaching: Start Fast Masterclass CLICK HERE.
If you’re interested, I recommend that you sign up on the Wait List so that you can block-out the time on your schedule as soon as the information is available.
Feel free to share your thoughts with me on this session! Looking forward to hearing from you.
When Gina and I were married 25+ years ago we discussed and subsequently, researched a new hobby that we would like to learn together. The hobby we chose was mountain biking. We asked a friend what we needed; we bought two bikes, helmets, gloves and gear. Little by little we learned some of the finer points of our new hobby. We even bought a book and trained early in the morning to beat the heat in Phoenix to practice our skills.
25+ years later we are still learning new techniques that help us raise our riding skills.
About a month ago I was given a mountain bike magazine from Great Britain. In it was an article that caught my attention. It reminded readers of techniques for riding aggressive downhill trails. The tendency when going down a steep decline is to lean back. In contrast, the best way to ride an aggressive downhill trail is to stay on your seat, lean forward and bend your arms.
These tips have helped me immensely!
Take that same approach to coaching. If you have gone through a basic coach training course you undoubtedly know the importance of listening and asking questions. One thing I’ve discovered is that many leaders simply forget. I would like to remind you of the basics again. Read THIS BLOGas a refresher to the Five Shifts of a Great Coach.
Going back, reviewing the basics can make a BIG difference.
Last week I attended the Global Leadership Summit for about the 15th year. The faculty came from diverse areas in ministry, government and business. Each year I encourage my network to attend because of the rich leadership insights I have gleaned. In fact, several years ago I began taking my then 12-year-old son and later my teenage daughter. The GLS became an annual ritual they enthusiastically anticipated, until they entered university. Even during those early days of their development they captured key learnings about themselves that shaped them into the young adults they are becoming today.
What struck me again this year was the quality of the speaker’s content related to some aspect of leadership. One speaker that caught my attention was Craig Groeschel (Founder and Senior Pastor of Life.Church). His final presentation of the conference was on the topic of communicating, especially as it relates to vision.
His point was simple and clear:
Knowledge leads to conclusions; emotions lead to action.
Groeschel offered three questions for consideration when preparing to communicate vision:
What do you want them to know?
What do you want them to feel?
What do you want them to do?
His Big Idea was for leaders to pay special attention to the emotional dimension when communicating vision. With that in mind, Groeschel concluded his talk with three things to move people’s emotions:
Share Stories Purposefully
Choose Words Deliberately
Show Vulnerability Thoughtfully
As leaders, I believe we would agree that we must all sharpen our communication.
Following are two podcasts by Craig Groeschel where he elaborates on the points above. I would encourage you to watch these and share these with the leaders around you. Until next time – lead on!
Join me for a FB LIVE event on Tuesday, June 25 @ 9am PST/noon EST. I will give an overview of the new resource InFocus is releasing entitled the Leadership Effectiveness Profile Online Course. As a gift I would like to give you a free survey to assess where you are on the eight critical areas in your leadership. Sign-up HERE. Hope you can join me.
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