Lead Like a Coach

There have been many approaches to leadership over the years, from command and control to more inclusive styles. Some leaders micro-manage, others are quick to delegate. It is hard for new leaders who are perhaps just starting to manage a team to find the right approach. And equally hard for more experienced leaders who would like to be more approachable and supportive.

According to leadership expert, Karen Morley, leaders who coach can double their engagement score. Even more importantly in today's technology-driven, fast-paced world, they can lighten their load and reduce the pressure on themselves. Coaching is all about refocusing how you engage with your team.

Leaders who coach: Book Features:

• Focus on the team and on developing the members of the team
• Trust their team and delegate, but are still there to offer support
• Encourage and applaud
• Listen to their team's challenges and encourage them to find solutions
• Ask coaching questions
• Develop next-gen leaders who pay the coaching approach forward.

Lead Like a Coach is for leaders who care about the people they lead; care about their own success; and want to make a positive impact on their stakeholders, their families and their communities. It is packed with practical strategies and case studies making it easy for anyone to start to lead like a coach.

About the Author

Dr Karen Morley helps leaders to realise their full potential. Karen has held executive roles in government and higher education, and her experience informs her approach. She’s a registered Psychologist with a desire to align what leaders do with the available evidence for what works. Karen works with executives and human resource leaders from a range of different organisations to help their leaders fulfill their potential, to make leadership more inclusive, and to help grow the coaching capability of their leaders.

She has a Master of Psychology, an MBA, and a PhD in Leadership and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and a Director of ANZSOG. In 2015, Karen published Gender Balanced Leadership: An Executive Guide, and she regularly blogs on coaching, leadership, diversity and inclusion. Karen Chairs the board of Emerge Women and Children’s Support Network which assists women and children affected by domestic violence