"True Leadership starts within"

Personal Leadership Development is about managing personal change and development within the context of organisational and business leadership.

The “personal” in personal leadership development is because it is very hard to lead others through change without considering that we ourselves must change first.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. John Quincy Adams

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer

Leadership is influence. John Maxwell

In an increasingly commoditised world your strategic advantage is in leveraging the talents and strengths of your people, and it begins with the example of your own personal leadership.

Personal Leadership mastery is a non-negotiable for any leader desiring to achieve maximum results through their team or oganisation. It also lays the foundation for organisational transformation through the empowerment of the organisations biggest asset, its people.

How few there are who have the courage to own their own faults, or resolution enough to mend them! Benjamin Franklin

By taking responsibility for your own personal leadership development you create the strongest lever to significantly influence your sustainable leadership success.

♦ How do you develop your personal leadership? ♦

Research has revealed certain competencies that have been shown to predict and determine leadership performance and success.

Some of the most significant are Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI), which is the measure of how developed we are in our awareness and management of our own emotions and behaviour, and Social Intelligence, which relates to the impact that we have on those around us because of these, as well as our awareness of others emotions and our ability to respond appropriately to them.

The work of psychologists and researchers like Daniel Goleman and Martin Seligman on emotional intelligence supports the proposition that the best leaders are in touch with their feelings and the feelings of others, and express emotions in a positive and appropriate way.

Consider this:

1) The Center for Creative Leadership conducted research that determined

"the primary cause of leadership career derailment is inadequate emotional competence"

Specifically:

·         Difficulty in handling change

·         Not being able to work well in a team

·         Poor interpersonal relations.

2) Leaders lacking in EI had significantly reduced leadership effectiveness. (George 2000)

3) Leaders with high EI deal with potentially difficult situations more effectively (Jordan et al., 2002).

4) Emotional intelligence was a better predictor of success than either relevant previous experience or high IQ. More specifically, in 74 percent of the successes the executive was high in emotional intelligence, and only in 24 percent of the failures. (Research by Egon Zehnder International)

5) A study of 130 executives found that how well people handled their own emotions determined how much people around them preferred to deal with them (Walter V. Clarke Associates, 1997)

The other crucial competencies that predict and determine leadership success are:

· Cognitive or cognitive-intellectual ability, such as strategic and systems thinking. (Called Thinking Intelligence or IQ.)

· Having a clear sense of values, philosophy, sense of calling, mission or purpose, unconscious motives or traits. (This is known as Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)

These three intelligences are interlinked

IQ gives us knowledge and thinking ability.

EQ gives us self and people ability

SQ gives us the motivation and direction

When they all work together, we reach our maximum personal and leadership potential.

These are what Personal Leadership Coaching seeks to develop in corporate executives and business leaders.

Emotional Intelligence equates character. Daniel Goleman

I see a real connection between what it takes to be a leader and the process of character growth……. one way to define leadership is as character in action. Warren Bennis

Working with an Executive Coach enables you:

To grow your awareness (through psychometric assessment, feedback, and dialogue)
To identify high leverage personal leadership development areas.
To co-create and implement a unique action plan to address these, taking into account your leadership context, needs and priorities.
To integrate your personal leadership transformation into a broader process of organisational transfromation.

Give yourself the leadership edge. Call me to see how you can take charge of your personal leadership development. Within minutes you will know how personal leadership coaching will deliver the results you are looking for.

There is a strong business case for coaching. The impact of your investment, specifically in your personal leadership development, may deliver an ROI that far exceeds your expectations.

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) 2009 Global Coaching Client Study reported the ROI of coaching anywhere between 100% and 5000%, with the median company return being 700%.

Based on the transformative impact and leverage that a corporate and business leader has in an organisation, especially at the highest level of leadership where change to the very culture and even strategic purpose of the business can be initiated through personal leadership change, the return on personal leadership coaching could far exceed the above range.

Lead Yourself Lead Others

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