(Self-)Leadership

Are you dealing with any of these issues?

Are you struggling to make an impact in your personal and professional life?
Do you wish you were able to take initiative more often?
Are you struggling to find your voice?
Do you find it difficult to have respectful confrontations?
Empowering and trusting your coworkers is not easy for you?

If you have recently been promoted into your first leadership role, or you’re looking to develop your leadership skills within your current role, then coaching and training can make a critical difference.

By means of leadership assessments you gain a clearer understanding of your strengths and weaknesses and focus on areas you want to improve. You can assess and reflect upon your current approach to communication, and how you build trust within your team.

Self-leadership goes into the same direction. It determines what we do, why we do it, and how. We all lead ourselves, but some of us do it more consciously and effectively than others.
If you feel you are living in autopilot, and events control you rather than the opposite, coaching can help you. Together we identify your desired experiences and intentionally direct yourself toward them. Self-management and self-monitoring are also key to the process.

general tools in leadership training and coaching

cognitive behavioral coaching

Our life history shapes our brain.

Neuronal connections form based on what we do repeatedly in life, both good and bad.

Good news: our brain is plastic until we die so we can unlearn things that keep us stuck and learn new things that help us grow.

By using well established techniques (e.g. the ABCDE model) within the Cognitive behavioral coaching (CBC) framework, I help my clients replace unhelpful and self-limiting beliefs with realistic thoughts.

CBC is not a quick fix: behavioral change comes only with conscious, directional effort.

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emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence plays a crucial role when it comes to effective leadership behavior.

Why some people are more effective than others, irrespective of their IQ?

The answer is in their ability to understand and manage their’s and others’ emotions, also known as Emotional Intelligence (EI).

In coaching, we navigate the four components of EI:

1. Self-awareness

2. Self-management

3. Social awareness

4. Relationship management

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assessments

Based on your needs, we begin our coaching journey with some tests assessing your personality, strengths, self-percepetions.

All assessments have high validity and reliability and are available online as a resource of research articles. They are only our starting point to move forward and make evaluations along the way.

reflection exercises

Personalized homework assignements support the elaboration of what you have learned about yourself during the coaching session.

Following your agenda, we design an action plan with practical exercises that slowly and consistently guide you from knowing to doing.

other resources supporting leadership development

We explore the five core practices of exemplary leadership, as described by Kouzes and Posner (2017) in their scientifically well-grounded resource for emerging leaders:

Model the Way
Inspire a Shared Vision
Challenge the Process
Enable Others to Act
Encourage the Heart

Other tools you may consider in your coaching journey:

Role play wth the Rose of Leary
Goleman’s work with emotional intelligence in leadership (YouTube video)
Other established frameworks depending on your needs (e.g. dealing with conflict; establishing boundaries, sharing meaning, talking about expectations).

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