Do you want to improve yourself as a leader and manager, and in turn get the best out of your team, growing and scaling along the way? If the answer is yes, then this week's episode is for you as Gavin talks to Matt Somers, an expert in coaching leaders with over 25 years' experience!

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 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Every leader or manager of people is a coach whether they like it or not. It isn't a choice. They can do it well or badly, but that facet of the job is an expectation and requirement assumed the moment a leader is appointed.
• As leaders we are sometimes too focussed on new ways of innovating our leadership, when in fact we need to focus on ways of incrementally dismantling out of date practices, thereby strengthening the coaching skills we already have.
• The four steps of the GROW sequence is a way of organising the questions we may have around coaching, and is made up of:
  • Goal
  • Reality
  • Options
  • Will/Way Forward
• Coaching is one of the greatest business tools we have at our disposal, and yet it cannot penetrate the armour of someone who has decided on a course of resistance. The maximum benefits will only over be at their most effective if the conversation is a two-way street.

BEST MOMENTS

'There is so much more to coaching than just being able to articulate questions'

'The challenge is not to start doing new things - it's to stop doing old things'

'The only way we can find out if people are trustworthy or not is to trust them'

'There has to be that recognition that it isn't the only thing we can do and it won't always work for all people'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

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