A Coaching Habit Let's You Work Less Hard and Have More Impact

When you build a coaching habit, you can more easily break out of three vicious cycles that plague workplaces today:  getting overwhelmed, creating overdependence, and becoming disconnected.

Circle #1: Getting Overwhelmed 

You may be overwhelmed by the quantity of work you have. The faster you dig, the faster the world keeps flooding in. As you're pulled in different directions by proliferating priorities, distracted by the relentless ping of email and rushing from meeting to meeting you lose focus. The more you lose focus, the more overwhelmed you feel. The more overwhelmed you feel. The more overwhelmed you feel, the more you lose focus.

Building a coaching habit will help you gain focus so you and your team can do work that has real impact on your business imperatives and so you can direct your time, energy and resources to solving challenges that make a difference.

Circle #2: Creating Overdependence 

You may also find that you've become part of an overdependent team. There's a double whammy here. First, you've trained your people to become excessively reliant on you, a situation that turns out to be disempowering for them and frustrating for you. And then as an unwelcome bonus, because you've been so successful in creating this dependency that you now have too much work to do, you may also have become a bottleneck in the system. Everyone loses momentum and motivation. The more you help your people, the more they seem to need your help. The more they need your help, the more time you spend helping them.

Building a coaching habit will help your team be more self-sufficient by increasing their autonomy (Within boundaries) and sense of mastery by reducing your need to jump in, take over and become the bottleneck.

Circle #3: Becoming disconnected

Finally, you maybe disconnected from the strategic work that really matter. Leaders need to help people do of the work that has impact and meaning. The more work we do that has no real purpose, the less engaged and motivated we are. The less engaged we are, the less likely we are to do great work.

Building a coaching habit will help you and team reconnect to the work that not only had impact but has meaning as well. Coaching can fuel the courage to step outside the comfortable, can help people learn from their experiences and can literally and metaphorically increase and help fulfill a person's potential.

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To your greater success and fulfillment,

Peter Mclees, Leadership Coach, Trainer and Performance Consultant

SMART DEVELOPMENT

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