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| "Coaching will become the model for leaders in the | | | | - Confidence as a leader and team member in the |
| future...I am certain that leadership can be learned, | | | | contribution she/he makes in bringing about the |
| and that terrific coaches...facilitate learning."-Warren | | | | vision of the whole enterprise. |
| Bennis | | | | - Influential leadership grows through disciplines of |
| Professional training in the Information Age | | | | self-leadership, which are learned throughout the |
| centered on the learner memorizing knowledge | | | | coaching relationship. |
| and then applying what was taught to the | | | | - New competencies are developed which are |
| specialized field they pursued. To reach upper | | | | necessary to play a bigger game. Without new |
| levels of leadership the path was to perform your | | | | competencies one is playing the same game over |
| role better than others and work your way up | | | | and over again. |
| the ladder in a linear fashion. Leadership came | | | | - Employee retention of top performers is |
| from the top down. It is known as the command | | | | maintained, which is a big savings to an employer. |
| and control model. | | | | - Fulfillment, success and security increase |
| In the command and control leadership | | | | dramatically. Presently there is an emergence of a |
| environment coaching isn't generally viewed as an | | | | conceptual age fostering "high touch" and the |
| essential part of the training. The purpose of the | | | | breaking into using your imagination and creativity |
| employee is to work toward the vision of the | | | | as resources to materialize the lifestyle and |
| company/organization they are engaged in with | | | | career you want. This is the evolution of |
| little regard for self-leadership development. | | | | discovering you are smarter than you think! |
| However, we have been moving from the | | | | Information overload has dramatically neglected |
| Information Age to what Daniel Pink, author of "A | | | | the development of imagination and the use of |
| Whole New Mind," calls The Conceptual Age, which | | | | the right side of the brain. Think of all the |
| requires a new way of thinking to keep pace with | | | | resources you have used to gather information to |
| the ever-changing environment. | | | | do what you do. How many of those resources |
| Within the last decades of the 20th century, | | | | actually stimulated your genius? Yes, you are |
| coaching began to appear as an asset to help | | | | more brilliant than you believe! And having the |
| individuals successfully navigate through the | | | | right coach with your willingness to explore your |
| quagmire of changes taking place at work and | | | | potential will awaken your brilliance. |
| home. The old system of following the leader | | | | Whether you want to excel at what you are |
| started being transformed by leaders teaching | | | | presently doing or make a transition to something |
| others self-leadership within the circle of influence | | | | different, you can access the untapped part of |
| of the individual. Leadership development from the | | | | your brain to higher levels of creative intelligence. |
| bottom up began to spring up to create teams of | | | | Before something takes form, it takes creativity. |
| leaders. | | | | Look around you. Everything you see, touch and |
| For individuals and organizations to excel it is | | | | hear started with an idea. Today's ideas are going |
| necessary to develop competencies and | | | | beyond functional, which gives you the |
| behaviors outside of the familiar. Coaching is one | | | | competitive edge and leadership necessary to |
| of the best investments an individual and business | | | | keep pace today. |
| can make as a resource to transcend through the | | | | In the Information Age you were taught to |
| fast pace happening in today's world. | | | | memorize the data and then put it to use in your |
| The power of the coaching relationship is based | | | | work and home life. Today you need to stretch |
| on the ability of the coach to hold the client's | | | | yourself by developing your imagination to reach |
| bigger picture agenda, while coaching through the | | | | the horizons you are meant to reach. In |
| everyday happenings toward the larger vision. | | | | developing new competencies in self-leadership |
| Some of the lasting results a coaching client can | | | | you will be amazed at what you can accomplish. |
| expect are: | | | | After all - Anything Is Possible! |
| - Long-term excellence in performance by | | | | "Design correctly harnessed can enhance life, |
| connecting inner motivational forces and outer | | | | create jobs, and make people happy-not such a |
| strengths; thereby stimulating action to produce | | | | bad thing. |