Wise Leadership

Executive coaching for leaders

Leadership is not a psychologically safe endeavour.  It is full of risk and responsibility.  It can weigh heavy.

As a leader you know you have an outsized impact on the people around you – their performance, their development and their happiness at work.

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More than ever, leaders face a relentless demand to run their teams and organisations effectively today, whilst adapting them for an uncertain tomorrow.

As a leader, you may have experienced the feeling of ‘running on empty’, weary from tackling one challenge after another.

Yet despite the challenges, you may also believe leadership is an enormous privilege and an unparalleled opportunity to create a positive impact.

You want to lead well; be a role-model, empower and develop your people, inspire success. However, it is not always easy to achieve that consistently when there are seemingly limitless demands on your time and energy. As well as multiple stakeholders with increasingly complex, and sometimes competing, needs. 

You might have achieved a leadership position because you are excellent at what you do.  You might be learning that your experience, skills and intellect alone are insufficient to the task.

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The world has plenty of clever leaders, but the challenges our organisations and our world face will not be resolved by clever thinking alone. 

It is greater levels of leadership wisdom that will help you cut through the noise and focus on what matters most, make difficult choices, have the hard conversations that count, and enable you to stay grounded through tough times.

The more senior you become, the more leadership becomes a question of character, about who you are, what you believe, what you value, what you are prepared to make non-negotiable.  

At some point in your career, doing things the way you have always done them stops being effective.  You realise you need to grow yourself before you can inspire growth in others.

Which is where Wise Leadership coaching comes in.

The goal of coaching is always change.  Creating a shift from one way (of working, thinking, being, connecting) to a new way.  Towards a way of being that creates greater choice, greater courage, greater energy, greater clarity and enables you to have a more positive impact on those you lead.

Liminal Space Executive Coaching asks what you want to achieve.  But it goes further and asks what your stakeholders (your people, your family, your community) need you to step up to and become.  

Then we get to work.

Find out more about how a Liminal Space Executive Coaching program can enhance your leadership impact.

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FAQs

  • Senior leaders, business owners or emerging leaders in any industry or sector who recognise they need to make a shift in how they are ‘showing up’ in their work and lives,  It is particularly valuable for leaders who are:

    • Transitioning into new roles which will require a different style of leadership / way of being

    • Leading their organisations through significant change

    • Aware they may have plateaued in their career and recognise they need to create a shift in themselves in order to move forward

    • Deeply committed to developing the potential of people in their organisations and are aware they need to evolve their own thinking/behaviour in order to unlock that.

  • All Liminal Space executive coaching programs are bespoke and designed around what you want to achieve and what your stakeholders need you to step up to.  In fact, that’s where we start our conversation. Specialisms include: 

    • Leadership impact

    • Leading v managing

    • Growing leaders

    • Mindset, beliefs and habits of thinking

    • Leading through change

    • Dealing with conflict

    • Culture-building

    • Goals – short/medium/long-term

    • Action-planning

    • Personal leadership values & purpose

  • Yes and no.

    I have worked with Strengths Finder, MBTI and The Leadership Circle. As part of the goal setting up front, we will agree which, if any, assessment tools would be useful to the coaching process.  

    However, in my experience, leaders have had no shortage of psychometric assessments.  Depending on how well they have been supported to make sense of the results, these assessments may have been enlightening or baffling, potentially even damaging.

    I have found that most senior leaders have the self-awareness to know what they need to change.  It’s the ‘how’ that is the tricky part, particularly when the heat comes on.

Every man is a damn fool for at least 5 minutes a day; wisdom consists  in not exceeding the limit. 
-Elbert Hubbard