The Leader's Discipline
Course Overview:

The Leader's Discipline is an intensive two-day introduction to coaching for leaders in complex times. The experience invites experienced leadership practitioners to recognize coaching as a strict and responsible discipline, developed over a leader’s lifetime in community.

The experience explores the work of coaching pioneer Tim Gallwey (The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Work) and is guided by experienced executives who have used coaching to transform their own organizations. Both days are experiential rather than purely theoretical and have been designed to focus on the needs of high performance individuals and teams.

Sports Coaching is used to introduce key concepts, where participants come to understand the nature of interference, both their own and those they work with. The coaching relationship is explored in individual and team settings through the themes of awareness, choice and trust. Participants further develop the ability to regain and retain focus while coaching others.

The bridge is then made to Leadership Coaching - where participants coach each other and teams on real issues shaping their leadership using John Whitmore's GROW Model. The GROW model concentrates on goal setting, reality checking, option generation, and commitment to action. The program includes feedback modeling, stages of community, individual responsibility, and paradigms of education and development.

Over the course of their program - participants:
     · experience how mental states influence performance
     · engage a discipline that raises the level of performance
     · use this discipline to address a real and current leadership issue they face
     · practice and build on their ability to coach emerging leaders
     · practice and build on their ability to coach teams of leaders
     · increase understanding of the behaviors which develop leadership
     · investigate when coaching is most effective
     · increase their confidence in giving and receiving honest feedback
     · explore possibilities of using this approach to enhance current and
       potential leadership development projects.

Although often offered as an independent development experience, The Leader's Discipline has also served as a foundation for a variety of wide ranging organizational and community leadership development initiatives including The Gemini Project. It has been delivered to over 500 leaders on three continents. It is currently being proposed as an operating system to a world-class coaching initiative involving professional athletes and coaches, executives from business and government and emerging leaders from "tough" socio-economic realities.

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