Self-Leadership: How to Become a More Successful, Efficient, and Effective Leader from the Inside Out

CHAPTER 11

Leading and Coaching with Self-Leadership

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

—TIMOTHY GALLWEY

The focus in this book thus far has been about accessing your own self-leadership, because you have the power to change yourself. But in addition to changing yourself the intent of self-leadership is to positively influence others around you.

You can influence people in a number of ways. First, you can be a role model, by walking your talk and demonstrating that it is possible to manage your emotions, communication, and behaviors on the way to achieving your goals. Second, you can coach people to access their own self-leadership; by doing so, ...