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Good leadership is about leading yourself, your team and your organization effectively to realize your individual and collective goals. This begins with leading yourself first. Here’s why.

When the struggling professional golfer Rannulph Junnuh meets Bagger Vance, the mysterious caddie, magic happens. In the movie, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Vance helps Junnuh find and perfect his goal swing, and in the process, also shows him how to excel in life.

The previous centuries of successful leadership was defined by the ability of leaders to have the correct answers. However, in this century, a drastic change is needed for the leader to be a coach. Coaching Leadership Style is the need of the hour to future-proof leadership.

The coaching leadership style is fast gaining momentum in the corporate world. As the corporate world reels under silent (and significant) problems of Moonlighting, Quiet Quitting, & The Great Resignation – the traditional leadership style of Command – Control has to be shunned.

Following the industrial revolution, there were 200+ definitions of leadership drafted, with most of them being positioned in accordance with a particular context, nature of the study, location, and cultural aspects of the study.

Having noticed an increase in the number of Agile Coaches coming to our ICF Accredited Coach Training Programmes, we are curious to explore how these two professional paths make an interesting & complementary synergy. Agile coaches and Leaders are often in two minds about ICF Coaching, hence this expert blog aims to satiate that query. Read on…

“To win the game, go where the puck is going to be, not where it already is.” The Agile/Scrum/Lean industry is going through a tectonic shift. The increasing focus on merging the ‘Coaching competencies’ along with the techniques, tools, and frameworks of Agile Methodology has gained traction, globally.

Ajay, an Agile Professional at one of the ‘big four’ corporations has had a stellar career. For the last 12 years, he has successfully led agile teams for product design and development. His track record speaks volumes about his expertise in Agile Methodologies. Off late, the deployment of the projects has been slipping away. In a recent Enterprise-wide Agile intervention, the team, though well equipped, could not deliver the required outcomes. Ajay wondered, where has he gon

Life is a roller coaster ride with ups and downs. One word that separates those who plow ahead through adversities and those who fall by the side is – resilience. Abraham Lincoln said, “It’s not about how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up”. Nothing has tested our resilience like Covid, in recent times. The pandemic has not spared any individual or organization. Nevertheless, success narratives have emerged while people grew stronger (antifragility in ac

Business excellence as studied in my MBA had two critical elements, organizational performance, and organizational climate. While many leaders focus on performance, the research indicates that it is the Organizational Climate that catalyzes performance. Hence, Business Excellence, or BE as we commonly called it, is achieved when organizations look at every employee as an invaluable human resource. Professional coaching enables employees in leading themselves, teams, and organ

The ICF Coaching Conclave 2021, India had a series of accomplished leaders sharing their most valuable insights covering a vast range of topics revolving around coaching. I also got an opportunity to listen to some of the brilliant minds of the Industry. I attempt to capture some of our collective key takeaways from the talks. The first session commenced with a  powerful address by Mr. Sridhar Vembu, the co-founder and CEO of Zoho Corp. In the last 25 years, Zoho Corp. has em

In our previous blog, 3 Pillars of a Coaching Culture , we looked at Carol Wilson’s experience at the Virgin Group with Richard Branson, who built many successful, unrelated yet profitable businesses by adding unique value to customers across several industries. One primary reason for Richard Branson’s success was incorporating a Coaching Culture at the Virgin Group. He was always willing to listen as he believed he didn’t know everything and was ready to trust experts and g

“An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”- African Proverb. This proverb captures the essence of the importance of leadership. The Leader has the responsibility to steer the organization to achieve its objectives and targets. Change is the only constant. The leader must be well equipped to navigate the winds of change.  The future workplaces will have coaches and not bosses. As the leadership baton is handed over to Millennials and Gen-Z, th

There is a strong business case for building and nurturing a coaching culture in organizations. A 2017 study performed by the International Coach Federation and Human Capital Institute found that those organizations with strong coaching cultures grew their revenue much more than industry peer group members (51% versus 38%). Their employees were significantly more engaged (62% versus 50%). A lot of coach training does not produce results because of neglecting to build a coac