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What Is Leadership Coaching?

Leadership coaching is a formal engagement in which a qualified coach works with an organizational leader in a series of dynamic, private sessions designed to establish and achieve clear goals that will result in improved business effectiveness for the individual, as well as his or her team and organization. A good coach helps leaders develop clarity of purpose and focus on action.

Leadership coaching uses the relationship between the coach and the person being coached as a platform for questioning assumptions, stimulating reflection, creating alternatives, and growing perspectives. The coach can be a coach by profession or a leader who uses coaching skills; either way, leadership coaching is consciously and explicitly directed at improving the individual’s leadership capacity while achieving organizational objectives. While sometimes aimed at remedying a gap or correcting a fault, it is often focused on readying a leader for increased responsibilities, speeding acclimation to a new challenge, or providing an objective sounding board and thought partner when everyone else around a leader is pushing a viewpoint. This is not to say that personal matters are never included in the coaching work—a leader brings his or her whole life to bear on the leadership task—but it means that the focus of attention is on achieving organizational success.