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Elevating Leadership Excellence: The Critical Role of Group Coaching in Your Development Program

Traditional lecture-based training programs have been ineffective in knowledge retention. However, this training method is still adopted by a large number of organizations. Although training plays an important role in leadership development, it needs to be paired with active learning strategies like group coaching to ensure knowledge retention and its application. Active learning strategies encourage participants to collaborate, contribute, discover, discuss, reflect, and share. As a result, the learnings are retained and actively implemented, which delivers a higher ROI on the investment. Group Coaching Overview Group coaching programs are immersive, peer-based, coach-led sessions that leverage the collective expertise, knowledge, and skills of several leaders. It promotes cross-functional sharing of knowledge for exploring and identifying behaviour and mindset shifts to bring in higher accountability, innovation, and transparency. The primary goal of group coaching is providing uniqu

How Executive Coaching Can Help You Become an Accessible and Flexible ‘Leader’ and Not a Controlling and Difficult ‘Boss’?

We’ve all at some point in our careers thought of our bosses as being overly controlling and even accused them of only being bothered about the ‘numbers’ and not their teams, right? Well, now that you’re the boss, have you thought about whether this is what your team may say about you?! In the words of Bill Campbell, coach emeritus: “Your title makes you a manager. Your people will decide if you’re a leader, and it’s up to you to live up to that.” So, you think you’re a great leader because you achieve your targets each month and your seniors seem pleased with your performance. But wait. Do you regularly hold one-to-one meetings with your team members to find out if they’re satisfied, or if they could perform better? Do you give individual attention to each to spur them on to higher achievement? Or understand what is holding back some of them from performing better? It’s time to take a reality check: Do you think your way is the only way? You don’t want to be seen as a control freak by