Authentic Leadership can ultimately make or break a business, if it is done well, you can uncover the keys to truly engaging your staff, and reaping the benefits such as innovation, positive culture and staff retention, all of which lead to improved business growth. Ensuring your business has authentic leaders who generate trust is a critical part of your overall business success. To achieve this you need to make authentic leadership a positive, living part of your business culture. To establish this you need to focus on 3 key areas;

1- Coaching 2- Mentoring 3- Empathy

These 3 points need to be part of your leadership and people engagement tool kit. In fact great leaders should have strong coaching and mentoring skills and be able to display empathy. Make this a focus for your teams and yourself, and you will develop authentic leaders, as this focus develops trust and respect.

An effective leader-as-coach demonstrated some key traits, they;

asks questions instead of providing answers, supports employees instead of judging them, facilitates their development instead of dictating what has to be done. This is the real difference,

This potential will not only save you money when it is engaged, it will also create new ideas and recognise problems that are not seen from the c suite. Your people see everything is your business and often they are the ones, if you listen to them, who can actually identify business shifts, customer issues, or new ways of working well before the leadership team does. So don’t miss this key money making part of your business. Spend the time to help your leaders take the difficult step to being coaches, that way you have a much higher chance of accessing your full potential through engaging your people.

Your people really have all of the answers, but have you asked them the right questions? Are you able to use your coaching skills to develop your authenticity and engage your people in the outcomes? If not, you will fail.

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