Leadership Development: A Definition

This is Google’s definition of leadership coaching:

The conscious process of developing an individual’s competencies and talents to make them a more effective team leader.

Let’s be honest. Who gets out of bed, besides themselves with glee, at the thought of ‘developing their competencies to become a more effective team leader?’

Here is FirstHuman‘s definition of leadership coaching:

Causing people to make extraordinary things happen, far beyond what’s predictable.

We here at FirstHuman assert that deep down, when people allow themselves to fully explore their vision for the world, they find that they want to change it in some important way.

They want to make extraordinary things happen.

So in this sense, extraordinary leaders are extraordinary creators.

We all have innate creative gifts, to inspire, to communicate, to strategise, to orchestrate, to make things happen.

Leadership coaching helps people get out of their own way to express those inner gifts.

Coaching lets people experiment with new ways to express themselves.

It gives them time to reflect and conjure new possibilities.

It holds a mirror to their shadows.

The net result?

More powerful communicators and creators.

In the end, leadership coaching isn’t about teaching.

It’s about helping people find their true power to achieve extraordinary results for their lives and the teams they lead.

If you’d like to improve leadership in your organisation, we’d love to talk to you.

Book a call with us here.