Leaders Who Coach Are Creating Better Workplaces

Written By Jeff Thoren

Coaching is more than a skill, it’s a new leadership style that brings out the best in everyone and creates value all-around.

Enlightened Rebel leadership involves recognizing that, in a constantly uncertain and rapidly changing world, the role of positional leaders in organizations is evolving. In her thought provoking TEDx Lausanne talk, Saba Imru-Mathieu tells us how.

With a strong solution-focus, leaders who coach empower and develop talent in others. Companies are increasingly adopting a coaching culture, quietly bringing about a positive revolution in work relations and performance.

We highly recommend that you watch the video, here are a few of the highlights...

Leaders who use coaching skills honor three fundamental human needs:

  1. Autonomy

  2. Competency

  3. Relatedness

Leaders who coach...

  • Ask, rather than tell (which requires a radical mindset shift)

  • Ask questions that help you think

  • Assume that you are capable and resourceful, able to discover your own solutions

  • Let go of control

  • Engage with you

  • Refrain from pushing their own views on you

  • Listen carefully, without interrupting

  • Don't give advice

Workplaces where humans thrive are possible! Saba Imru-Mathieu is right. Leaders who coach are creating better workplaces, and so can you.

Jeff Thoren

Jeff is the founder of Gifted Leaders, LLC, an established leadership and team coaching company based in Phoenix, AZ. He’s also the Clinical Assistant Professor of Veterinary Communication at Midwestern University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Jeff is committed to building engaging and innovative workplace cultures. He understands the mindset required to effectively lead and influence others in a business environment that is increasingly uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. His goal is to accelerate the shift from traditional hierarchical leadership (where a few leaders at the top exert control) to collective leadership (where leadership emerges as a collective capacity from everyone).

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