Coaching "Thinking" Leaders

Central to Servant Leadership is the ability to equip and empower people to be better thinkers. Thinking is what most of our employees are being paid to do. Becoming a better thinker is worth the effort because the way you think really impacts every aspect of your life. It doesn't matter whether you are a business person, teacher, parent, scientist, pastor, or corporate executive. Good thinking will improve your life. It will help you to become an achiever. One of the reasons people don’t achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their thinking.

In order to coach "thinking" leaders, we must focus on process not content. Free people to trust their thinking and serve others by unleashing them to be a “thinking” leader. 

Stage 1 – Equip and Empower people to think. Focus on their thinking not the issue or problem.

Stage 2 – Listen to Unleash Potential (70/30 rule: 70% of interaction time spent on listening and asking questions, 30% speaking)  – Listen to hear their thinking. First understand, before being understood.

Stage 3 – Speak when necessary. (70/30 rule – Be like E.F. Hutton!)  Ask more questions, give less answers!

Stage 4 – Coach “Leadership Thinking." Unleash the potential of all around by elevating their thinking. Help them to focus their thinking on solutions not problems.