Coaching is an often forgotten or unrated skill, which is actually a core need if you want to be an exceptional leader. I am not saying you are becoming a coach instead of a leader, but you are integrating the core skills of a great coach into your tool kit, allowing you to have more open and beneficial conversations with your people, allowing you to become their cheerleader without even thinking about, and ultimately leading you to a place of exceptional leadership and highly engaged people in your teams. This is good for them and good for you, so a great win- win in any type of business. Becoming a leader that has a clear focus on developing a their core coaching skills, is key to engaging the new value based workforce, they want to give and receive value, and if you have coaching skills it makes it much easier for you to uncover and develop this core need, so why not capitalise on that and allow your people engagement and business results to soar! A focus on being an exceptional leader via coaching, will allow your people to really engage with your business and provide unexpected yet beneficial ideas and results, which are critical for your future business success. Plus it’s a core part of your people engagement tool kit. Something you can actually utilize in many cases at very lost cost with a high level of positive rewards. To develop your leadership mindset and lead teams, there are several areas you need to focus on developing, Covey sums it up well, and suggests 6 critical factors, I have added 2 more to meet the needs of the modern workforce.gives some great insight into this development Critical Practices For Developing your Leadership Mindset and Leading A Team: 1.Understand what you need to do to Develop a Leader's Mindset, and progressively work towards it. You are shifting from an individual contributor to someone who gets things done through engaging others. 2.Hold Regular 1-on-1s. 3.Set up Your Team to Get Results. 4.Create a Culture of Feedback. 5.Lead Your Team Through Change. 6.Manage Your Time and Energy. 7.Focus on your own development- Training is important 8.Develop a leadership network internally and externally A big part of displaying your leadership mindset is being capable of developing a workplace around you that displays emotional safety. Lots of leaders think they can do this easily, but in reality it is simply not that easy, they tend to miss many keys steps to acceptance. And jump straight to saying they have an open door policy and everyone should use it. In reality this does not work, and you often need to unwind years of habit and beliefs. Check your ability to do this and ask for help if needed. Subscribe for free to the entire season of Engaging Your People for Success Subscribe Most businesses and leaders need help to really see this key area with ‘fresh eyes’. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at [email protected] for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help. Tags; strategy and culture, aligning culture and strategy, strategy implementation, strategy vs culture, culture and strategy, business strategy, strategic planning, strategy software, humantelligence alignment, organizational culture, cultural change, strategy cascade, strategy, culture, align team goals, objectives, technology, people, training, continuous improvement