INsight/ Your Career Arrested

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Manila, 10 July 2024 — Failing to master this skill will arrest your career. 

Story 

It happened over the past decade. Have you noticed it? Coaching has become a popular leadership style. Did you know that you can apply this style in some of your workplace conversations and see results in mere minutes? 

If telling colleagues what to do and giving them great advice is still your default leadership style, I have bad news. You are arresting your career. In many work situations, that style is simply no longer effective.

Today’s work environment requires you to be versatile and master several styles of leading. You need to switch between these styles several times a day. One of these is the coaching style, which is more important today than ever before. 

Challenge

The thing is, using the coaching style in high-paced work conversations can feel as if it’s ill-suited to the situation you’re in. And yet, that’s where its value can often be found unexpectedly. I’m talking about using the short coaching styles—as quick as 5 minutes or less—with your team or in one-to-one conversations. 

When you learn to hold back on giving quick advice and ask a quick coaching-style question instead, the results might surprise you. To do this effectively, however, you need to learn the techniques first and get feedback as you practice. Then, you can help others to make changes and get better results. 

The coaching style will enable your team and team members to act. It gives them confidence and ownership of their solutions. This style is important to your colleagues, especially those in Gen Y and Gen Z, who tend to prefer being coached over being told what to do. 

Question 

Do you want your career to be arrested by failing to master the coaching style? That’s what will happen if you stay busy in your comfort zone and stop learning new leadership styles in our rapidly changing world. 

Ready to step forward? You can learn, practice, and get certified in using the coaching style in your workplace in less than two months when you take The LEADcoach Challenge with three colleagues you invite to join you. Apply now to join in time for next week’s first workshop.

As members of our international Grow3Leaders community of practice, you and your three colleagues will get immediate access to our live workshops and calls and all of our learning resources on the coaching style and eleven other effective leadership behaviors. See you there!