What is Coaching Positive Leadership ?

Coaching Positive Leadership is a network of experienced coaches who work together collaboratively in order to provide clients with coaching and coaching skills development.

By working collaboratively Coaching Positive Leadership is able to offer clients a wide range of experiences, backgrounds and personalities to provide a more extensive menu of services than would be possible if we were all operating independently.

Members of Coaching Positive Leadership believe strongly that leadership is the key element of successful teams, businesses and organisations and that much of the learning and development in leadership skills and behaviours is best developed through practical experience supported by one to one coaching.

We also believe that leadership is at all levels of an organisation or business and is not just a role or attribute of the most senior in designation.

What is coaching?

Coaching for individuals is a method of work-related learning which relies primarily on one to one conversations.

The overall purpose of coaching is to provide a guided and structured opportunity and experience for an individual to take responsibility for their own learning and development in order to develop their skills, improve their performance and achieve important business and personal goals and development.

The coach facilitates a structured conversation that encourages reflection by the coachee, literally at times “holding up a mirror” in order that the coachee can understand better what others (colleagues and clients) perceive of their actions and behaviours.

The responsibility for the coachees’ development, supported by the coaching process, sits very much with them.

What happens in a coaching session?
Structured coaching conversations are likely to include how:
• coachees work with others
• they themselves behave and how that is interpreted by others
• they perform in specific situations, particularly difficult ones for example with colleagues and clients, for example
• they form judgments and make decisions
• they learn from current issues and work relationships
The issues likely to be discussed in the coaching process will focus on the individual manager’s developmental needs and may cover a variety of aspects as suggested above, but for all of them, issues arising from the coachee’s professional life provide the starting point.

What should the coachee expect from a coach?
A coach will:

• ask questions and encourage him / her to explore issues more deeply;
• challenge thinking and encourage / facilitate different perspectives
• encourage him/her to take responsibility for his/her own learning development;
• listen;
• clarify and draw out understanding;
• stimulate imagination and creative thinking;
• help him/her work out things for themselves;
• encourage him/her to set learning objectives;
• encourage him/her to try different ways of doing things;
• encourage him/her to reflect on specific experiences and draw learning from them.

What is expected from the coachee?
The coach will expect him/her to:

• be honest and open in coaching discussions;
• be committed to take responsibility for his / her own learning;
• provide open and honest feedback on his / her satisfaction with the sessions;
• prepare for the sessions by identifying the topics to be discussed, and outputs that s/he would wish to have at the end of each session.
• take positive action in the interval between coaching sessions