12: Five Ways to Have Courage to Coach
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
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🗓️ 7 November 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Courage (n) as defined by Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary: Mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty
Eleanor Roosevelt is famously attributed to having said, “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“If you’re the king of your world, you’re playing in the wrong world.” -Unknown
5 Pieces of Advice:
1) Have a mentor – for me, it’s been my wife (and past managers)
2) Educate yourself on the issues – for me, it’s reading and RSS feeds
- Check out Shelfari.com.
- Six Ways to Get Smart and Stay Smart
3) Surround yourself with people who will empower you.
4) Have direction – a personal vision
5) Lean into discomfort
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching skills for leaders. This is episode number 12 recorded on November 5th, 2011. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Coaching Skills for Leaders. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills |
| 0:25.0 | so they can influence the success of others, |
| 0:28.0 | their organization, and themselves. |
| 0:30.0 | Whether you're a season leader or you're leading people for the first time, |
| 0:33.6 | improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly the |
| 0:38.1 | success of others. This week's topic is five ways to have courage to coach. |
| 0:45.0 | This past week I received a note from a former client that was part of a program that I facilitated earlier this year teaching leaders how to have better coaching skills. |
| 0:55.2 | And she emailed me because she had identified an issue in her organization with one of the folks that she's leading and she |
| 1:05.0 | emailed and said hey I normally would either not have noticed this or maybe I |
| 1:11.0 | would have noticed it but not done anything with it and I've learned to address things |
| 1:16.7 | early with people when things come up and to have courage to do that and I'm looking for some advice on how to handle a particular situation. |
| 1:25.0 | And I actually emailed her back and said, first of all, |
| 1:31.0 | congratulations for having the courage to be willing to address a tough |
| 1:36.7 | situation. And I was thinking about that a lot this week because I think as leaders we need to really be able to have courage in order to address situations with people that will help not only us to be more effective, but just as |
| 1:55.8 | importantly, if actually not more importantly, to help them to be more effective |
| 1:59.9 | too. And so today we're going to look at how we can be as leaders more courageous. |
| 2:04.6 | And I have five suggestions for you to do that that you can put into practice almost immediately. |
| 2:09.4 | And as you're listening today, if you have questions or comments for me or for any of the ideas or |
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