Developing Coaching Skills for Leading Through Complexity

THE CRUCIAL ROLE COACHES PLAY IN DEVELOPING THE COACHING LEADER'S COACHING SKILLS FOR LEADING THROUGH COMPLEXITY - with IAN DAY

Masterclass Outline

Ian Day, internationally respected coach and co-author of the groundbreaking Challenging Coaching, will talk about his new book, The Coaching Leader: Coaching Skills for Leading Through Complexity. Coaches have a crucial role to develop leaders as the demands on leaders increase dramatically as the world is changing at an unprecedented rate. In this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world there are complex with interwoven challenges, and a solution lies with coaches, who are ideally placed to help leaders transition to become Coaching Leaders as current leadership is not sufficient to meet the challenges of our complex world.

Ian will set out a road map for this transition and invites coaches to help leaders step beyond outdated command-and-control approaches and embrace coaching as the essential leadership skill for today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. During this session Ian will set out the business case for a new style of leadership in the VUCA world and will provide a clear pathway for those who want to develop sustainable performance and navigate complexity with humility, curiosity, and courage using coaching skills at the heart of leadership.

Masterclass Aims

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain why leadership must evolve in a VUCA world
• Position the role of coaches in developing leadership capability
• Define what it means to be a Coaching Leader
• Apply a roadmap for coaches to support leaders transitioning to coaching-based leadership
• Strengthen the impact of leadership coaches

The Coaching Leader book endorsements - "The Coaching Leader is the approach we need right now. It is humble, authentic, versatile, and most importantly prioritizes asking over telling." Dr Robert Biswas-Diener co-author of Radical Listening “The Coaching Leaders providers the insights, evidence and skills, the where, why and how leaders can understand, adopt and deploy coaching as a leadership style. An essential read for any leader” Professor Jonathan Passmore, Henley Business School, UK