Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader

Transferring Skills:From the Personal to the Professional

As you develop your ability to create vision and goals for yourself, you build your strategic thinking muscles. Being able to visualize possibilities, gather information to assess risk, and plan and set goals are the same skills you need if you want to lead a team or an organization. As a leader, you must create and hold a vision for your team, understand your business and your clients, know what’s happening in the marketplace, set goals, and develop strategic plans to achieve those goals, all the while trusting your intuition. As a leader, you must understand what your team is capable of achieving, what skills the team possesses, to what extent team members are able to stretch, and what ...