Leadership Coaching: How Coachable Are You? Coachability Quiz.
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Leadership Coaching: How Coachable Are You? Coachability Quiz.
If you are or aspire to be a leader, and are a candidate for leadership development by your organisation for leadership coaching, how coachable are you? Your coachability level can make the difference between reaching your potential and unknowingly sabotaging it. Find out how coachable, or otherwise, you are. If you are currently uncoachable, what can be done about it?
To prevent some readers taking personally the points in what follows, we will talk about a third party: person X. If person X cannot be coached, and X has no other way of becoming aware of their career blocking current limitations, X’s career can come to a halt. It may take person X years to realise that his/her last promotion was just that, their last.
It could be worse: most people are promoted one level above their competence limit (by virtue of dead person’s shoes and other factors). That may mean that when X discovers that the last promotion was, indeed, their last, meaning final, it may come with the realistation, by X and their employer, that X is unable to do their current job.
If person X has been in post for any substantial period of time, a return to their previous job, to the level where they were competent, is no longer an option. That then means either dismissal or “redundancy” in the UK, or with more liberal employment laws in the USA, firing. All because the person was uncoachable.
Harsh truth coming up. In over 30 years of coaching I have observed this: some people are simply uncouchable, by anyone. Others are minimally coachable, some are moderately coachable, and others can only be (minimally) coached by a person who validates their world view. Perhaps this is obvious: those who are maximally coachable have the greatest probability of reaching their potential, and are the same people who seek help whenever they need to increase their skills base or add to their capability repertoire.
Where do you sit on the leadership coaching coachability continuum?
Leadership Coaching: How Coachable Are You? Coachability Quiz.
0 is: “I totally disagree.” 10 is “I completely agree.”
2. Only people who have reached higher positions than me can coach me.
4. I have never had a coach.
6. My industry is unique; only people in my industry can understand it.
7. I have all the skills and knowledge I need to reach the top.
8. Coaches, and other blah-blah-blahists are commercial lightweights, hired by the fly-weights in the human remains department.
9. Coaches are going to spout the latest transient leadership buzz and expect me to believe it, and spout it, too.
10. No chitchat with any so called leadership coach can change my performance.
Now, tally up and write down your score.
Here is just one (very typical) example. A newly appointed CEO of a major UK national organisation (which you know) set a new ‘vision’ for his organisation. I contacted him, and send a copy of ‘Awesome Purpose’, to trigger awareness that his ‘vision’ could be made compelling. We met, to discuss the possibility of helping him with the factors necessary for a vision to be inspirational and effective. Needless to say, I received a toxic cocktail of the above statements. Equally needless to say, he was gone in less than 6 months, removed by his board and shareholders. The position he had spent his life working towards was gone, all because he was uncoachable, and was not prepared to address that problem.
What are the statements you were asked to rate? You were asked to assess, unknowingly, the 10 deadly statements of the career apocalypse.
Your leadership coaching coachability score results.
For those with minor coachability impairments there is much hope.
Over the years I have noticed that for some, their uncoachability is the causal factor that leads to the lack of skill, which in turn leads to the adversity that shocks and traumatises the uncoachable in to being coachable.
Addressing Leadership Uncoachability
If you or someone you know may have impaired coachability contact me to discuss the system to remove the blocks, increase their/your coachability, and reclaim their/your potential. PsyPerform’s “Release Your Leadership Potential” programme is backed by guarantee. Each session identifies and removes a self-imposed career blockage or there is no fee. If you wish to take a zero risk option to unblock your career contact Dr Nigel MacLennan.
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