The Direct Approach To Coaching Potential Leaders
by Michael D. Hume, M.S.
If you want to be a great leader, you need to be inspired.? Only an inspired person can inspire others... and that's what great leaders do.? They lift people out of their own lesser nature and inspire them to be the best they can be.? They starve the Victim inside another person, and feed the inner Entrepreneur.? They don't babysit their charges, and seek to keep them down; great leaders see themselves as coaches, and every one of their people as a potential or emerging leader to be elevated.
There are many ways to coach another person, but two major strategies: the direct approach, which relies primarily on the coach's knowledge and experience, and the indirect approach, by which the coach seeks to ignite the coachee's inner wisdom.? When you're coaching a junior person - a potential leader who's just Packers Baseball Hats rising in terms of her knowledge and experience - she'll be thankful when you stick with the
The indirect approach is best used when you're coaching a more experienced person whose leadership is already Packers Baseball Hats emerging.? It relies on strategic, well-put questions, usually unscripted but based on a planful questioning model.? It requires much more sophistication on the part of the coach than does the direct approach (but coaching, like any other skill, can be developed - contact me for meta-coaching using my COLORADO model, if you need affordable help).
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