Our Leadership Coaching Services provides unique Coaching Programs for Senior Executives, Managers and Leaders. We support Learning and Development and HR departments in Talent Management and Development Programs for Corporates. For more information visit us - https://coachjohncey.com/for-corporates/
Imagine that you are a shallow water scuba diving instructorYou are taking your students for their final diving classYou put up the gear, you give the instructions…And you dive with the group10 feet...20 feet...30 feet... 30 feet was the depth you had in mind for the classBut since it’s the last class, your students want to go deeperYou obligeYou go further deep40 feet...50 feet...You reach 60 feet!
!That’s the maximum you have gone personally as a diver and as an instructorBut your students want moreThey are enjoying the experienceThey urge you to go deeperYou are in a dilemma….“Should I take them deeper even though I have never gone that deep?”Your students insistThey are ready to take the chanceCan you take them really that deeper?Hell NO!
!You cannot take them deeperWhy?Because you have not experienced those depths yourselfYou don’t know the water pressure at those depthsYou don’t know how rapidly oxygen will get depleted at those depthsSo you say NO!
You did the right thing!This is true when it comes to managing teams as wellA great leader always coaches the team members to help them grow and succeedHowever, real transformation happens only when you can coach your teams deep enough.....Deep enough to help them shift mindsets, beliefs, thinking patternsBut you cannot coach your teams deep enough, if YOU have not been coached powerfullyJust like the scuba instructor, who cannot take students to depths where he/she has not gone beforeThis is a very important distinction in leadership coaching.Infact, my own journey into coaching began when I had the opportunity to work with my own coach during my corporate careerI saw the massive difference and transformation it made in the way I operatedSo I continue to receive coaching even today.
I regularly leverage a mastermind group of global coaches, where we support each other in a small communityAnyways, back to you...So if you want to be a coach for your team…a powerful coach..Get coached first..Be ready to go deep inside yourself first..Discover yourself first, before you can help other discover themselves.
