60 Things To Work On With Your Leadership Coach
Over my Coaching career I have supported Coachees with a number of ‘things.’ If you are unsure of what to focus on for your Coaching, strap yourself in and read through this list so that you can get the best bang for your buck from your Coach.
Have a read of the below and work out what you want to take to your next Coaching session.
I have limited spots available for corporate packages or private coaching. Contact me to learn about the package I offer and let’s see how we can focus on YOU.
1. I see the importance providing more value to my internal and external stakeholders.
2. I need to make changes or develop in my career and profession.
3. It’s important to learn how to better prepare my team, customers or colleagues for change.
4. I need to put together a pitch for my project.
5. I need to become more effective and efficient in how I use my time.
6. I want to persuade and influence my team, colleagues, and stakeholders with clear language.
7. I feel the need to invest more time and money into my professional brand.
8. I need to make changes to contemplate and act more like an influential leader than I do at the moment.
9. I am more than my job and I intend to leave a legacy.
10. I need to be better at leveraging my strengths, connections, and talents.
11. I need to strengthen my people management game.
12. I know I can do what I do really well, I need to ensure others see me shine.
13. I need to learn to stand up for myself and my team.
14. I need to increase the size of my professional network and community, but I hate networking.
15. I need to increase the productivity of my team.
16. I know I would progress better on my change project if I had a coach to hold me accountable.
17. I need to understand then enhance the team dynamics and culture of my team.
18. I want to learn effective team building skills and people management techniques to bring out the best of my team.
19. I don’t want to miss out on opportunities because of myself holding me back.
20. I recognize the need to become less resistant to change.
21. I am willing to put my learnings into practice.
22. I see the need to become a more generous leader and I’m ready to change.
23. I need to implement workplace boundaries.
24. I have a short fuse and I need to become a more tolerant leader.
25. My to do list is endless and I know I am the barrier.
26. I need to gain a more strategic perspective about the workplace in order to develop.
27. I second guess myself, then am paralysed. I would be more successful if I had more confidence.
28. I have noticed others who are emotionally intelligent in how they deal with workplace issues and I want to develop those skills.
29. I have a lot of great things in my career, but see the negative more quickly. I want to shift my perspective.
30. I intend to become a person who responds wholeheartedly to work opportunities AND issues as they happen.
31. I am ready to raise my standards of workplace behaviour, relationships and expectations.
32. I want to learn how to deal with difficult people in a more constructive, and assertive manner.
33. I need to manage my time better so I have a better balance for my team and for myself.
34. I am tolerating more than I know I should and I would like to work on this.
35. I need to learn new skills to gain buy in at work.
36. I need to learn the basic principles of change management.
37. I need to work on my frustrations in order to make some changes at work.
38. I need to develop skills to have difficult conversations.
39. I was promoted to leadership with no training, and I need to learn how to manage people!
40. I need to learn how to motivate a dysfunctional team that I have inherited.
41. I need to influence the Executive with my ideas.
42. I need to expand my thinking as as leader.
43. I need to learn how to show more vulnerability.
44. I need to understand how my team ticks so that I can reward and motivate them genuinely.
45. I need to address patriarchy and misogyny.
46. I want to be an ally for people who need support in my workplace, but I don’t know how.
47. I need to learn how to manage up.
48. I want to learn how to show up fully and listen more to the needs of my team.
49. My team tell me I am a micromanager, I don’t think I am. I need to work on my perfectionism.
50. My manager told me I need to be more diplomatic.
51. I don’t fit in to my peer group / my organisation.
52. I want to learn how to build better workplace relationships.
53. I want to develop skills in articulating my message.
54. I need to learn how to detach from work.
55. My partner says I am negative about work, I need to change my mindset.
56. My inner voice always tells me I am not good enough.
57. I need to set workplace boundaries and be more directive.
58. I am new to leadership and don’t know where to begin, but I can’t show my team and peers that!
59. I need to delegate more, and do less myself.
60. I don’t know what my work personality is and how others see me. I need to work on that.
Please forward a copy of this list to anyone who may need it. Work out what you want to take to your next Coaching session.
I have limited spots available for corporate packages or private coaching. Contact me to learn about the package I offer and let’s see how we can focus on YOU.
I highly recommend checking out your Leadership Coach before you sign up, do so by connecting with me on LinkedIn, Instagram and watch my Ways to Change the Workplace Chats with the best Thought Leaders!
My coaching style is direct. I firstly seek to understand you and then your needs. I will ask you many questions! You will do most of the talking. We will have fun.
I will provide you with tools and practical exercises to put in place then for you to report back. I believe in development through action based experiential learning and my coaching style complements that.
I know how challenging and rewarding people management can be. I have managed large and small teams. Working closely with you, your HR team and your lead team I will seek to understand your change, leadership or culture optimisation needs and then tailor bespoke Coaching packages for you.
Types of Coaching I provide face to face or online are:
• Individual Leadership Coaching (for established and emerging leaders)
• Group Leadership Coaching (for established and emerging leaders)
• Outplacement and Career Coaching (for those facing potential redundancy or those affected by redundancy)
• Executive Coaching (for CEOs and their lead teams)
Here’s to emotionally intelligent leaders and great workplace cultures, it can be done!
