RECAP: 2018 FOX Rising Gen Forum

The Benefits of Coaching for Leadership

Presenters:
Austin McDonald, President and COO, McDonald Development Company  
Greg McCann, Founder and Principal, McCann & Associates

Session Description: 

Engaging a coach can be an effective way to develop your leadership, engage your teams, and accelerate your career development. In this interactive session we explored our understanding of coaching as a mindset, a skill set, and a resource for Rising Generation family members. Coaching can help you unlock your leadership potential, whether it is through peer coaching or working with a professional coach.

 

“If you only drive a car in second gear, what happens?  It burns out the engine."
- Greg McCann
“If you can work through your own emotional resistance, you can work through anything.”
- Greg McCann
Key Takeaways:  

  • Coaching can provide the capacity to think and feel differently. Agility can help you switch gears more easily. If you only drive a car in second gear, what happens? It burns out the engine. 

  • Greater awareness leads to more effective leadership. Coaching provides honest and rigorous feedback. It helps you to rethink options, assumptions, own your strengths and navigate your weaknesses. As a leader you ask people to do difficult tasks, so you need to be able to reciprocate.

  • The four agilities are:

    • Self-awareness – able to have in-depth awareness of your emotions and manage them 

    • Empathy – able to deeply empathize with other stakeholders’ perspectives, feeling and needs 

    • Framing – able to reframe an issue or problem in terms of stakeholders’ interest, timing, and strategy 

    • Innovation – able to transform change and problems into valuable results

  • Questions a good coach might ask:

    • What’s on your mind?  

    • And what else?  

    • What’s the real challenge here for you?  

    • What do you want?  

    • What are your goals?  

    • What is the right mindset to accomplish those goals?  

    • How do we get the most out of our time together?

  • You have the answer – not the coach. Accountability is important, and you need to be responsible for the discussion. It’s important to feel heard (empathy). Realize what you bring to the situation (self-awareness). Think how you might reconsider (framing).
     

VIEW THE PRESENTATION SLIDES >
(FOX Members only)