Every New Year encourages us to look to the year ahead, to harness our expectations, to plan ahead to ensure that we will have improved our market position, revenue, career or even our life by this time next year. However as 2010 dawned with the weight of expectation for a deepening sense of gloom as we continue with the economic downturn which is known as the first recession to be experienced on a global scale, alternativehealthdirectory there is no doubt in every leader’s mind that these are challenging times and how individual leaders respond to that challenge will be many and varied.

So how can organisations support their leadership in these times of adversity and how can we as executive coaches ensure we can support them to stay on track and maintain organisational performance at a time when it has never mattered more?

In the current environment leaders are placed firmly in the spotlight, as the world scrutinizes their every move to see who is struggling and who is flourishing. Across countless organisations people are looking to their leaders for reassurance, jewishbulletin to know that their jobs are safe, at least for today. They are looking to them for security, support and clarity of how to navigate the labyrinth of never ending challenges, and in return they expect leaders who are calm and in control, who can undoubtedly show resilience in the face of adversity. In short, they are looking for leaders they can trust, those who will get them through this global recession, intact and alive.

The problem arises then when you consider that these are unprecedented times, many leaders and managers are finding themselves facing challenges which they have never faced before – they are, possibly for the first time in their career, in unchartered waters. All of their leadership development, MBA’s, campingbob past experience and training that has equipped them so well for previous business scenarios, is found lacking when dealing with the breadth of uncertain challenges currently facing most organisations. This in itself can provide a context which is ripe for leadership derailment.

Rapidly changing economies means that our greatest resource is under even greater pressure right now, and that is our energy. Everyone feels pulled in an ever increasing spiral of directions and it can feel as though we are out of control and being forced into situations to do what we must do. Many executives are feeling the pressure build and are flexing their resilience muscles to stay on track. These are challenging times which we will look back on as the first tentative steps towards evolution.

The face of leadership is changing, it is no longer enough to be a good leader, online casino malaysia exceptional times call for exceptional leaders and executive coaching is no different. In 2007 I competed a small research study to find out what leaders really wanted from Executive Coaching and despite the comparatively small numbers of my qualitative study, the results were really interesting and highlighted some key trends.

Scope: 139 people – 52 coaches / 87 executive clients – over a 4 month period (2007/2008)

69 women / 70 men – different nationalities – from the US to the Far East majority were European

Combination of internet forums, emails and interviews

All clients had received coaching for a minimum of 3 months, all coaches had been executive coaching for a minimum of 2 years

3 questions:

• What makes the difference between good and great coaching?
• How would you describe great coaching?
• What specifically do you want from your coaching for you to consider it “great”?

Key Themes: Coaching Intelligence

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• Intuition
• Insights
• Inspiration
• Influence
• Innovative
• Integrated

Coaching is undergoing an evolution. It seems to me that to deliver these aspects of great coaching we as coaches need to develop our presence. To invite our clients into the eye of the storm, where there is space and stillness and to connect energetically with our clients and to use our intuition to coach from this place in a mindful and conscious way. The above qualities will challenge most coaches to remain at their learning edge as by their very nature they are dynamic, global intuit highly subjective and constantly changing.

The Path to Intuitive Energy

Mindfulness is the path to immortality.

Negligence is the path to the death.

The vigilant never die,

Whereas the negligent are the living dead.

With this understanding,

The wise, having developed a high degree of mindfulness,

Rejoice in mindfulness,

Paying heed to each step on the path.

The Buddha

Intuitive energy – it’s not what you think! Literally speaking of course… there is no doubt that exceptional leaders understand themselves and trust their intuition, the same goes for exceptional coaches. But how do you develop this? The exciting thing about this area is reflected in the following quote:

“You cannot teach humans anything. You can only help them to discover it within themselves.”

Galileo

In a recent workshop I asked delegates to raise their hands if they recalled seeing aspects of themselves in those they were advising, in one way or another, as clients. Most of the people in the group raised their hands and admitted to guiding their clients towards a piece of advice that they acknowledged they should have been following themselves. The very existence of our own needs and attachments creates some level of risk that we may fail to be attentive to the real needs of people we are working with. Thus we need to understand our own subtle biases and motivations which originates from our core energy, and we need to use our intuition to connect to theirs.

Once this information began to take root in my own mind, I was staggered to learn that these influences have already made their way into the Executive coaching taking place in many C-suites of large corporate organizations. Now to let you into a secret, microblading near me I have been doing this work myself for over 5 years, but as most of you will realise I have not marketed it as such for fear of scaring away the corporate executives and environments who benefit so much from it. At last things are changing, and I know from my own experience that executive coaches who understand and can work with energy are in high demand, not least because of the accelerated results which this type of coaching produces.

You are already intuitive. Your clients are already intuitive. The truth is we all have intuition. Your physical body automatically reads the energy of everyone around you. Every living being is made up of energy and all this energy contains information. Your physical body is surrounded by an energy field that is both an information clearing centre and a highly sensitive perceptual system. Within your mind you merely need to open yourself up to be present and receive this channel of communication.There are many different influences which come together under the title of Intuitive Energy including the fields of psychology, sociology, somatics, transpersonal psychology, energy psychology, energy healing, energy medicine, and eastern therapies.