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Be Your Own Leadership Coach
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Be Your Own Leadership Coach

Self-Coaching Strategies to Lead Your Way

Karen Stein
Major Street Publishing, 2023
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How do you become a better leader? For many, it’s by hiring a leadership coach. Yet not everyone has the resources to hire one, and there’s no guarantee coaching will be available when you need it most. Business coach Karen Stein offers an alternative: Become your own leadership coach. Stein outlines the self-coaching practices that will help you lead yourself and others, boost your positive impact, and ensure you leave a meaningful legacy. Stein’s strategies will support you no matter where you are on your leadership journey. 

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Boost your leadership impact by coaching yourself.

Although leadership coaches are helpful and in high demand – there are some 71,000 worldwide to choose from – their services are expensive, and they aren’t always available when you need them most. Happily, you can learn to coach yourself. Self-coaching builds your awareness of your strengths, values, abilities and potential. It also gives you strategies to increase your leadership impact. Self-coaching will allow you to lead in your own unique authentic way. 

Self-coaching includes reflecting on your own behaviors, thoughts and feelings, and considering how these serve or hinder you as a leader. You’ll need to learn through experimenting and observing the results of the various strategies you try. And you’ll need to practice over time.

Leadership doesn’t automatically accompany a title or position. Anyone can lead by acting as a leader. People become leaders by developing the skills, habits and personal qualities of leadership. To become a leader, you’ll need to develop abilities such as communication, goal setting, collaboration, empathy, and inspiring confidence and optimism. You’ll...

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Karen Stein is an executive coach and a partner at Deloitte.

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