LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

High performance organisations require high performance leaders who motivate, inspire and elicit the full potential of their people. Coaching for leadership development is about transformation and continuous, supported performance improvement. Progressive organisations are currently utilising our executive coaches to develop their leaders and senior management members and teams. The coaching of executives for Leadership Development is an effective and integral strategy used extensively in Australia and overseas (40% of successful Fortune 500 companies in the USA engage executive coaches for leadership development).

The coaching programs that Australian executives currently engage in are a mix of leadership oriented coaching which aims to maximise leadership potential by focussing on performance, professional skills and behaviours AND growth oriented coaching which aims to enhance overall performance by focussing on personal well being.

Coaching substantially enhances the executive's individual performance and effectiveness as well as increasing overall organisational operation and therefore profitability.

Coaching is recognised, world wide, as the leadership style for today's leaders. In the corporate environment leaders with coaching skills evoke better performance, deliver superior business results and create stronger relationships than traditional, top-down, autocratic managerial styles. Leaders who possess competent coaching skills are more able to facilitate the development of all other people in a supportive manner that builds trusting relationships, improves communication skills and increases personal accountability. Other senior management members are then also able to utilise these coaching skills to achieve sustained performance growth.

"Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible."
Colin Powell. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. USA.

Benefits of Coaching for Leadership Development
Develop leadership skills
Identify and authenticate your organisational culture
Improve innovative, inspirational thinking
Lead and manage organisational change
Advance managerial effectiveness
Upgrade communication skills (both verbal and written)
Improve interpersonal skills
Extend working relationships with all others
Set more meaningful and realistic goals
Achieve more, faster, with less effort
Retain job satisfaction
Enhance organisational skills
Create effective teams
Facilitate staff development
Reduce stress and pressure
Create more life balance through greater self-awareness.

360-Degree Feedback
Rating and analysis of leaders/managers current performance and leadership skills (including characteristics and competencies) through a comprehensive, 360-degree performance survey and feedback process is available for each leader. This is a separate, constructive, non-threatening, robust and completely confidential feedback process and is extremely useful for identifying individual leader's strengths as well as highlighting development opportunities.

Contact IMPACT Coaching about our Leadership Development program options which target todays executives and tomorrows leaders.

Phone/Fax: 02 9524 8787

Mobile: 0416 210 429

Email: jenny@impactcoaching.com.au