The document discusses the art of leadership and coaching, providing advice on starting out as a leader and coach. It outlines common challenges such as developing self-awareness and strategy. The author shares their coaching and leadership story, noting the importance of listening, questioning, authenticity, observation, and ending with energy. Results include locating direction, developing strategy, involving others while maintaining impact, improved productivity, and ensuring everyone is clear on culture. Mistakes to avoid are putting oneself first, losing sight of values, telling quickly without listening, taking shortcuts, and enforcing culture rather than exploring it.

1. The Art of Leadership &
Coaching
Starting out as a leader &
coach
Stuart Haden

2. Have you ever had these
challenges?
•Self awareness & development
•Developing short term plan & long term
strategy
•Locating a starting point & needing to
create impact
•Improving productivity – for you and
others
•Creating a ‘mission’ – what we want &

3. My coaching & leadership story…
Form Transform
Listen
Question
Start = authentic
Observe
Talk
End = energy
messaging external productivity culture
mission

4. Results…
1. Located individual position &
organisation direction
2. Skillful external scanning & strategy
development
3. Involved others but maintained impact
4. Productivity improved & measurement
introduced
5. Culture – everyone was clear on the
positive & negative

5. Old world of leadership…
•Power - flatten hierarchy
•Greed - need not want
•Delusion - realistic impact
•Anger - change but not save the
world

6. New world of leadership &
coaching…
•It’s about the followers
•Involved strategy that has value
•The power of coaching & storytelling
•Harnessing energy – individual,
team & organisation
•Culture change that encourages
habits & habitats

7. 5 stages of leadership & coaching…
1. ENCOURAGE your followers to
follow
2. ESTABLISH leadership values to
create form
3. ENABLE narrative coaching
4. EVALUATE productivity & energy
sources
5. EXPLORE mission & culture

8. Most common mistakes…
• Putting ourselves first
• Losing sight of values
• Tell quickly, quickly tell
• Take short cuts, ignoring potential
energy sources
• Enforce a culture

9. Purpose…

10. Integration – # 1…what’s your plan?
Form Transform
Listen
Question
Start = authentic
Observe
Talk
End = energy
Your top 5 projects e.g.
messaging external productivity culture
mission

11. Quote…