Powerful Leadership Through Coaching

17Putting It All Together

I hope this book has been a very practical and useful resource to help you on your path to becoming a great leader, manager, team member, business partner, and, most important, coach! Also, I hope you are able to use these leadership and coaching tools at work and at the personal and family level. You now have tools to help you ask better questions, listen more empathically, challenge mindsets and behaviors, respond positively, and, above all, change for the better and help invest in the great talent of all those around you.

The question is, what are you going to do about it?

Making It Stick

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. It all comes down to what you do today.

—John C. Maxwell, New York Times best-selling author

A Blessing-White study found that 75% of all managers have been through some type of coach training. Does this mean 75% of all internal leaders or managers are effectively coaching their employees on a regular basis? No. Why? Because the coaches’ development training didn’t stick. The training was static and offered as an event, not as part of an ongoing development effort. Coach training needs to be dynamic, with ongoing application and practice, follow-up implementation and tools, peer coaching accountability, and sustained support so that reflection, sharing, action-learning, and improvement happen over time.

Certainly, the need for coaching is critical, and opportunities for leaders to become great ...