“Coaching is entering a conversation wanting to be changed.”
Ezgi Tiryaki, MD
When working with me as your coach, you will be able to:
Identify values/intentions/priorities that are authentic and important to you
Envision and create your future self with the relationships & life you want
Design observations, practices, and actions that will get you there
Make progress on your quest for meaning, balance, thriving, wellbeing & joy
Build long-term excellence through developing your independent competence
What I will contribute when working together as your coach:
Identify thought habits and limiting beliefs
Provide you with new language to make new observations
Support, challenge and be a mirror to free you up for new action
Provide data-based assessments and customized leadership tools
Create accountability and hold a safe space for ongoing development
The Top 5 Reasons to Work with a Leadership Coach or Why I Do What I Do
1. When we give more to ourselves, we can ask more of ourselves.
Coaching is essential to leadership development-it is not just a nice-to-have.
Coaching might feel self indulgent, but is a critical investment in your team, your organization and your greater mission. Only if you are well (whole, supported and present), can you do well and serve and empower the people that rely on your leadership. Coaching was essential to my own leadership success and I want to pay it forward.
2. The inner game runs the outer game.
Everything starts with a thought-sometimes an unconscious one.
What we think impacts how we feel and how we act. Ultimately, what we think has the power to drive the outcomes we get. Sometimes our thoughts might be self limiting or not even part of our conscious mind. Coaching helps better regulate your emotions and reactions and allows you to make things object to you (instead of you being subject to them). This is a game changer.
3. Leaders who are their best (self), can do their best (work).
Transformation starts with self awareness-you cannot change what you cannot see.
Leaders are often alone with their thoughts and their inner voice. They may experience imposter syndrome, feel stuck and hold limiting beliefs. Their unregulated emotions can be contagious to their team. A coach listens with complete attention and intuition and is fully committed to your success. It is an amazing gift to be fully heard and understood.
4. Leaders make impact through their behavior.
Insight without implementation is worthless-an accountability partner can give you an edge.
Old habits die hard. It takes creating and upholding new practices. A leader has to strengthen and sustain intentional ways of being and doing that serve them better. This requires creating a system of support and accountability. No leader can do this all alone. The coach is an essential member on the leader’s team to cheer them on and help keep the momentum going.
5. We create our world by living it.
Human development and capacity building never ends-vertical development takes a lifetime.
We all have limited time to live the live we want and make the impact we seek. We often face ambiguous loss, complexity and situations that we cannot control. Coaching can help a leader shift perspective (by getting from the dance floor on the balcony) and question their assumptions by seeing more complexity in the world. A reflective leader is more effective and fulfilled. Instead of chasing after outward success to gain happiness, a leader who has developed greater self-complexity has greater capacity for ease, contentment and joy in their work.
Coaching is grounded in mutual respect, trust and freedom of expression.
Based on James Flaherty-Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others