What is Strategic Coaching?
Strategic coaching helps you focus.
All coaching focuses on you and what YOU want to achieve.
Strategic coaching helps you prioritize your leadership vision and deliver results.
What is strategic leadership?
The word strategy is synonymous with the word approach, plan of action, roadmap, blueprint, or game plan.
Strategic leadership is truly a mixture of skills, behaviors, and perspectives. It is a balance of science (data, information, and analytics) and art (curiosity, imagination, and thoughtfulness). It is about leading with VISION!
Strategic Leadership in Business
In a business context, strategic leadership involves thinking, creating, and applying insights to opportunities that gain an advantage by generating results beyond what competitors can accomplish.
Strategic Leadership in the Community
In a community context, creative insights and opportunities are still the advantage. However, the success of the group or community is how you measure results.
Strategic leaders are visionary and results-focused.
Strategic leaders have a set of behaviors that set them apart. They are:
Curious - they think about external trends, patterns, how to inspire the people around them, and how to get results.
Imaginative - they challenge the status quo and ask disruptive questions like “what if…?”
Analytical - they continually gather data and information and weigh short-term and longer-term decisions and implications.
Thoughtful - they take a broad perspective and consider multiple options.
Balanced - they regularly balance all stakeholders' interests, such as investors, customers, suppliers, employees, and their market ecosystem.
Self-aware - they maintain self-awareness of personal strengths, weaknesses, and behavioral tendencies.
Questioning - they ask hard questions and seek to understand themselves, those around them, and the communities or markets they serve.
Strategic leaders think, plan, and act.
Strategic Thinking
You take the time to think creatively about your business or your team. You challenge the status quo. You ask tough questions and question assumptions. You define your vision and determine what your future success looks like.
Strategic Planning
You transform your vision into an actionable plan. You identify key goals, objectives, actions, and milestones to drive the organization forward for the next level of success.
Strategic Implementation
You implement your plan and move it into action. You ensure you hold yourself and your team accountable. You collect data and information and measure what matters. You analyze, interpret, and adjust.
A strategic coach is an experienced strategic leader.
A strategic coach is an experienced strategic leader who guides you to:
Define your specific vision of leadership success
Gather information about your leadership style
Analyze and understand your leadership behaviors
Confront limiting beliefs that are holding you back
Select key leadership behaviors to develop
Create a strategy, goals, and action plan to achieve your leadership vision
Work with the people above, below, and around you to improve your leadership skills
Accelerate your performance and achieve your leadership vision by working on your plan, measuring your results, and staying on track
Why can’t I do it on my own?
We all have blind spots.
When you feel stuck, overwhelmed, and under pressure to perform, it can be hard to evaluate what you’re doing well and what you need to improve.
Sometimes, it’s hard to see what others see, especially when your inner voice is at maximum volume.
When you are tired of missing your performance goals or missing out on promotions, it’s time to consider an investment in leadership coaching.
“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”
— Carol Dweck, Mindset: The Psychology of Success
How can I make my strategic coaching successful?
Engaging a leadership coach requires a commitment of time and dedicated effort to improve your leadership skills.
Remember, coaching is about you. You have to be motivated to grow and follow through on the actions you’ve defined to become the leader you envision.
Confronting behaviors that aren’t working and habits holding you back can be challenging.
Dalyn creates a trusting space while at the same time challenging you to push past the status quo of your current leadership behavior and reach for new insights and skills.
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
— Warren Buffet
When should you invest in strategic coaching?
When you’re ready to get better at leading strategically,
to be more influential and improve the impact you make in your leadership role, then…
You are ready to invest in strategic coaching.
Now is the time for an experienced strategic coach in your corner.
Dalyn Dye is in your corner as you develop your strategic leadership skills:
A partner to help you achieve the leadership future you envision
A champion to help you see your untapped leadership potential
A guide to help you improve leadership communication
A sounding board as you practice new leadership skills
A motivator who helps you challenge your status quo
An accountability partner to keep you honest and on-track
“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing what your coach told you to do the first time.”
— Unknown
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