1. Future Leadership Programme
Reflections on coaching
in leadership practice

2. Google ‘coaching’ for 133 million hits or ‘coaching models’ for 8
Google ‘coaching’ for 133 million hits or ‘coaching models’ for 8.5 million hits!
Just Some of the Approaches…..!
Cognitive Behavioural Coaching
Paradoxical Coaching
Solution Focussed
Coaching
Analytic
Coaching
Life Coaching
Sports Coaching
Team Coaching
Directive
Coaching
Coactive Coaching
Executive Coaching
Leadership based
Coaching
NLP based
Coaching
Ontological &
Existential Coaching
Person
Centred Coaching
Evidence based Coaching 2

3. Some helpful definitions of coaching…..
The process of empowering others
The art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of others
…involves expanding people’s capacity to take effective action
A process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve
(Whitmore 1995)
(Downey 1999)
(Robert Hargrove)
(Rogers 2004)

4. (and how we can influence it positively as leaders)
Coaching…
A method of work-related learning which relies primarily on one-to-one conversations
DeHaan 2005
And in an organisational context:
The core value of coaching is about facilitating personal and organisational learning and change
(and how we can influence it positively as leaders) 4

5. Features The Coach facilitates: Reflection on actions and thinking
Acknowledgement, release and development of personal strengths
Overcoming or reducing obstacles to development 5

6. Creating and exploring a personal map
All of us spend One life living it, Another, thinking it And the only life we have Is split between The true one and the false.
Extracted from the poem ‘ I’m so full of feeling’
by Fernando Pessoa (1888—1935)

7. Exploring the Map: The Johari window1
Open/free area 2
Blind spot
Conversational space, verbal, open and explicit, free area to share and discuss
Things unknown by coachee
but known to others
Ignorance about oneself, personal style, impact on others,
lack of self awareness, EQ issues 3
The hidden area 4
Unknown area
Unknown to coachee and others. Can include feelings, latent abilities, behaviours and attitudes Can be positive or influence negatively.
Thought but not spoken by coachee, known but kept hidden, sensitivities, fears, hidden agendas, secrets, manipulative intent

8. Johari and the coaching relationship1 2
Open/free area
Feedback &
insights
‘Blind spot’
shared
discovery 3 4
Self disclosure/exposure
discovery
Self
Unknown
area
The hidden area

9. Behavioural and Organisational Developing Self Awareness
Core Techniques
Dialogue
Reflection
Behavioural and Organisational
Change
Questioning
& Listening
Rapport
Building
Developing Self Awareness

10. Reviewing/reflecting on the experience
Reflection
1-Concrete
Experience
Doing/having
an experience
2- Reflection/
Observation
Reviewing/reflecting on the experience
4- Experimentation
Planning/trying out
what you have learned
3 Abstract-
Conceptualisation
Concluding/Learning
from the experience

11. Dialogue
Coaching is a form of learning that relies on one to one conversations. In a work context this includes…
Working with others
Insight
through reflection
Act in
Specific
situations
Judgements
&
decisions
Handle different
situations

12. Developing Self Awareness
Behaviour/style
Relationship skills
Knowledge
Attitudes
Values/ethics/
convictions
Personality of the coachee
in five nested layers

13. Rapport Building
The ability to relate to others in a way that creates a climate of Trust and Understanding

14. Questioning and Listening
Questions about:
What content and
knowledge to apply
In specific situations
How individual
relates to and
handles content
Personal
characteristics
Range of questioning
Listening: In different ways for different messages and insights

15. Options for the Coach - The ‘Coaching Window’ *
Suggesting
Confronting
Supporting
Exploring
* De Haan 2005

16. Person-centred coaching
Options for the Coach
Suggesting
Problem-focused
Solution-focused
Directive coaching
solution coaching
Confronting
Supporting
Insight-focused
Person-focused
Analytic coaching
Person-centred coaching
Exploring