Coaching Stories & Experiences - An Introduction: Recent Episodes
Moumita Gokhale
It’s important that we also create an environment which supports the initiative Break The Bias: In this episode , I share with you sone initiatives that are critical to break the bias. They are education, financial independence, self esteem, self confidence, assertiveness, never give up & never give in, open & honest conversations.
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Break the bias is deep and needs more time & effort. Building awareness on the biases that we hold and accepting them can work wonders in this journey of building gender equality. Let us then take small actions such as seeing the world as is rather than being judgmental and building prejudices; how about leaving it to individuals to choose their paths irrespective of the genders.
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Blue or pink! In this series I would be sharing my thoughts on Break the Bias!! It’s important to understand the why, what & how of bias in order to break it. Here I share the definition of bias and illustrate the history of the over exaggerated colours for boys & girls. Hope you enjoy it & do leave your comments on the same.
I am overwhelmed with the fact that I am posting the 8th episode of my 1st podcast series on Coaching Stories & Experiences. Gratitude to all my listeners who stopped by to listen and encourage this journey of mine!
Today I would talk about an extremely effective leadership skill. No prizes for guessing! By now we all know that coaching is one of the primary leadership skills for people development. In my last episode, I shared data on how leadership behavior impacts the organization culture as well as organization performance. Let us explore Leaders as Coach further. Coaching skills ensures a continuous leadership growth process.
Leadership behaviour creates 50-70% of an organisation culture. In turn, the organisational culture impacts roughly 35% of organisational performance. This makes leadership behaviour & organisational culture the single biggest factor impacting organisational performance. Leaders drive culture & performance by meeting stakeholder demands & creating stakeholder value. In this episode of Coaching Stories & Experience, I am sharing the concept of stakeholder centred leadership & team coaching!
I am a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder & Team Coach and would be happy to help you explore more on this executive & team coaching journey. I would like to stop here by quoting Marshall Goldsmith – Life is Good!
Here I talk about my understanding of the basics of coaching which keeps me on track and focused to run effective coaching conversations. Questioning , listening & staying grounded is basic to creating wow moments in client coaching sessions. The belief that its all about the client keeps me on check and stops me from advising when tempted/asked to do so.
I have also introduced the concept of self coaching which is beneficial both for the coach & coachee. So let us connect to talk more & explore more on self coaching!
In this episode I share my story of becoming an executive coach. I leave you with some tips while choosing your coach or becoming a coach. One thing that I realized during this journey is that one needs to understand the purpose and once in it follow it through with hundred percent passion & commitment. Coaching does work. How about getting coached today?
In this I focus on mindset & change management as a niche area of coaching. Mindset & change is one of the most challenging areas but most rewarding when done through mindfulness, feedback, coaching and sustained with concrete actions. You may also know about some change management tools as well as self coaching. Till now in my last three episodes , I have shared with you the following : Episode 1 - Introduction ; Episode 2: Niche Area - Building Leadership Capability & Professional Growth ; Episode 4 - Niche Area Well Being.
To summarize, coaching helps bring change in all aspects of life ; leadership capability, professional growth , well being, mindset & change management. So what are you waiting for --get coached get better today!
Well Being spans across different niche areas of coaching such as executive coaching, wellness coaching, fitness coaching as well as relationship coaching. In broad terms it relates to well being in the areas of mental, physical, emotional & financial stability. In this podcast i share some tools and trends that help make these coaching conversations fruitful.
This episode introduces two main niche areas of coaching - Building Leadership Capability & Professional Growth. This happens to my area of expertise too. I share with you the different topics that may arise during the coaching conversations as well as some qualities that make the coaching engagement productive. Mostly both are long term sessions like 8 -15 with a frequency of one session a month. At times these sessions deep dive into the strengths & weakness to unfold and discover untapped potential.