Coaching is Servant Leadership
Coaching is Servant Leadership
Anita Greenlee | 2018
Abstract
The coaching profession is experiencing explosive growth in the United States and abroad. In my quest to define coaching and the significance of its impact, it was interesting to learn why many have various interpretations of the word. Coaching develops! Coaching is moving individuals from where they currently are to where they ought to be! Coaching is Servant Leadership, comes from observing some leaders’ lack of comprehension of what and how to be a leadership coach is and what is or who is a servant leader. While serving in various positions in faith-based and non-faith based organizations, as well as the military, observing many in leadership positions, provided a definite conclusion of a continuing pattern of behavior from either teaching or tradition questionable methods of coaching and limited understanding of servant leadership.
Coaching has an extensive history tracing back to the Bible. We see examples of coaching in the way God interacted with Adam, with Jesus, and the 12 disciples. The primary foci of coaching improve and develop skills to make better decisions. Leadership coaching is an acceptable way to achieve a particular strategy, improve performances, or directly assist an individual in their personal lives to reach another level. Coaching requires sitting down and listening. Coaching is not telling people what to do; it is not solving problems, it is not focusing on the future; instead, coaching is making a plan. Coaching is a thinking process that assists in leadership and personal development. Coaching has rapidly entered the global mainstream during the 21st century surrounded by an increase of training organizations, professional associates and the material of evidence-based coaching. Leadership is vital to any organization, within the faith community coaching adds another dimension to the capacity and experience of individuals leading and serving. A coach is there to assist another emerge in the gifts and talents given to them by God; these gifts are sharpened through knowledge, experience, education, expertise, and understanding. Coaching relationships are developed by working through processes and reaching milestones, which change human behavior. Skills, characteristics, traits, and competencies of servant-leaders or servant leadership are parallel to coaching; the denominator is the individual who is present and who assists others in reaching his or her goals, desires, or calling by asking thought-provoking questions.