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Leadership Development is Self Development

There has been much written about leadership over the last 30 years.


From 1975 to 1995, according to the Library of Congress, books on leadership appeared at a rate of about 24 a year. In the past 10 years, that output has doubled. That's a new book on leadership every week, or enough over the decade to wallpaper every classroom at Harvard Business School. We've been graced recently with leadership lessons from everyone from Jesus to George W. to Geronimo to Colin Powell.


Yet, becoming an effective leader does not happen in the library or classroom but on-the-job with the help of a mentor or coach. Leadership development is not an event but a behavioral process of self development. And self development happens best with the assistance of a personal guide to allow your perceptions to evolve.



As an active participant in the coaching process, you are required to:

Understand executive coaching, what it can accomplish and its limitations
Realize why specific strategies are necessary to overcome special barriers to executive development
Decide whether and how coaching is likely to help you become a more effective leader
Discover how to assess potential coaches and choose the best fit for your particular needs
Recognize the critical steps in the coaching process and learn how to manage them with the aid of your coach
Learn not only how coaching can help you change your own behavior, but also how it can help you influence colleagues to perceive you in the way you want to be perceived