High Performance Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching 

Leadership is defined by James Kouzes and Barry Posner as “the ability to get others to want to do that which you’re convinced needs to happen.”  Leadership is about influencing and enrolling.  It’s about inspiring and motivating.   Brene Brown describes it as being about developing people.  Similar to parenting, leadership is about working yourself out of a job, supporting and empowering your team to lean on each other rather than on you, enabling you to elevate your focus and leverage your unique line of sight as the leader.

Leadership is an inside job

These elements of leadership listed above are often more of a lagging indicator of the work that gets done internally.   At Elder Development Group, we partner with leaders to unpack current mindsets, narratives, beliefs, and practices that may have served the client in the past but no longer do so, given who s/he is today and the leader they want to become.  We uncover and explore the client’s newest, most powerful version of themself and anchor that version of self in the present.  

A challenge for leaders in this work is to build their ability to be accurate observers of themselves in the present moment, to develop ongoing self-awareness or mindfulness of who they are being and how they are being in their lives, the impact they generate, what they own and what they don’t own.   They uncover blind spots, tackle obstacles, make new choices, develop powerful ways of looking at themselves and others and take on new, effective behaviors, skills, and practices.  They work toward what fulfills them, what brings them joy, and what enables them to be a high-performing leader.