Be Your Own Leadership Coach

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...