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Hi there,
After an suspenseful last week, hope you are well.
We're good and excitedly working with several clients on workshops before the end of the year as well as planning the next one – February is already looking busy.
Tomorrow, we're running our second workshop on Leader As Coach with Perth Airport, and before the end of the year we will launch a similar program with a secondary school. The aim of these programs is to train managers to give support and guidance rather than instructions and foster an organisational culture beyond command and control. The impact this is having on organisations is more than just individual growth and development, it's unleashing energy in forms of higher levels of employee productivity and engagement, faster adaptation to change and improved economic performance.
While it can be frustrating in changing management style from dictating what's to be done to asking questions that leads to individual insights and charge, the cost of on the organisation in not changing. Yes, it takes time to establish a coaching culture as each individual of a team develops but the long-term benefit is a much more efficient organisation in which more people lead and make decisions. A command-and-control organisation moves as fast as its ultimate decision maker, which is too slow. What we want is an organisation where everyone knows where they're heading. Leadership is not commands, according to former Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier "Leadership is a transfer of emotion.”
Organisations need to change and the change is Leader as Coach. If you want to learn more, read this article from HBR. If you want to know more about our approach and Leader as Coach programs, book a 15-minute call with Phil Moyle.
Strangely, I think it's also appropriate to watch the tv-show Ted Lasso, about a happy-go-lucky and positive thinking American football coach who becomes the coach for a sour soccer team in the British Premier League. It's premise is comedy, sometimes quirky, but really it's a pure feel-good show with a deeper message of believing in people's potential and that you only truly win when everyone's on the same page and acts for the better of the team rather than individual success.
We also recommend:
- The Leadership documentary is recommended by Jill Dare, Head of Coaching & Leadership Development
- This interview with Spotify founder Daniel Ek is recommended by Jonah Cacioppe, Managing Director
- Lotterywest's grant for not-for-profit and local government organisations opens again in February, pointed out by Hannah Fitzhardinge, Director, Coach & Facilitator
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