How can coaching and personal development support your leadership journey?

During and after the COVID pandemic, we have come to expect even more of our leaders and teams working across health and social care, than ever before. Traditionally, many have believed (and indeed some still demonstrate) that leaders should know all the answers and should show strength, no matter what.

What makes a good leader?

MIAA’s Managing Director, Chris Harrop, says: “We recognise and value the more compassionate leadership cultures emerging, and embrace the principles of human first leadership. Yes, it is important for leaders to provide direction and demonstrate courage and conviction of decision, but rarely should this be at the expense of authenticity and humility.

Leaders need even more than ever, good self–awareness, and a knowledge of how to access inner resources that enhance their capacity to lead and inspire others. Developing positive, compassionate, conscious behaviour will not only benefit you as a leader, but will also help to build more positive family relationships, friendships and communities outside of your workplace.”

Taking some time through approaches such as coaching, to focus on how satisfied you are with various aspects in your life, will help you to prioritise where you need to make some changes. For some people it might be their physical health. For others it may be addressing their mindset. Everybody will be different, and it’s important that you can identify where you need to focus your attention.

A recent article published by Harvard Business Review: In Praise of the Incomplete Leader, stated that only when leaders come to see themselves as incomplete—as having both strengths and weaknesses—will they be able to be successful. We are all work in progress: through Coaching, we will help you to increase your self-awareness and develop emotional intelligence and resilience though our personal development opportunities.

How MIAA could help

To support our clients to be aware of where they are now, and to make intentional changes to live an even more inspired and productive life, we are offering a range of personal development solutions including:

1. Group based workshops using tools such as The Robertson Cooper iresilience model and the Joyful Life Liberator.

These workshops could be for you if you are new to the personal development world, and want a taster to becoming a more compassionate, creative and connected leader.

The workshops will help you to:

• Cultivate a positive mind-set and a positive vision for your life.
• Identify and transform your limiting beliefs.
• Practice techniques to change your emotional state if you are feeling stressed or negative.
• Apply techniques to remain in the present through meditation and mindful practice, and  to understand what your body is telling you.
• Understand more about your personality type and how you bring yourself into personal and professional relationships.
• Build your self-awareness, self-belief, self-confidence and self-love, to enhance your personal and professional relationships.
• Put in place positive self-care routines to keep you joyful.
• Build principles of habit change and techniques to hold yourself accountable for behaviour change.

You will be more able to positively influence those around you, by understanding yourself at a deeper level. You will also have greater insights on how to improve your resilience based on the knowledge of your danger spots and strengths for maintaining your wellbeing.

2. Tailored one to one coaching, targeted at senior leaders, using a person-centred coaching approach.

The essence of coaching is:

• To help a person change in the way they wish and helping them go in the direction they want to go.
• To support a person at every level in becoming who they want to be.
• Build awareness to empower choice and leads to change.

Coaching is a partnership between coach and client. In our coaching relationship, we honour you as the expert in your work and your life. Using the person centred approach we will help you to understand where you are now with all aspects of your life, and determine the areas where you would like to make some changes. Through our coaching journey together, we will help you to upgrade your life, and unlock your true creativity, authenticity and potential.

We offer a range of coaching interventions that can support you to:

• Enhance your personal resilience and levels of happiness
• Increase your self confidence
• Manage career and life transitions

All of our opportunities offer a unique combination of being and doing. It is important to know that if you don’t want to take time, slow down, reflect and look inwards, these solutions perhaps aren’t right for you right now.

3. Team, Board level and System Leadership Coaching to enable your collective impact to be even greater

Group coaching could be for your team, Board or organisation if you would like to help your team better align with a common purpose, goal or objectives, or to become more effective as a group of individuals.

Our Coaching offer is headed up by Chris Harrop and Kath Wynne-Jones, who are both certified Executive Coaches from Leeds Beckett University.

For more information about our coaching offer, contact Chris Harrop.