Two leaders discuss why continuous learning matters for managers and executives. They explore how coaching skills and ongoing development shape better leadership, and why the best leaders treat growth as non-negotiable.
This August, I am two months shy of graduating with my Ms. In Leadership and Organizational Development with an emphasis in Executive coaching.
So amazing.
In addition to working, I do go to school at night, write papers, take tests, do the whole nine yards. Learning every single day is so important to me. Finding ways to grow, finding ways to learn from others, whether it's listening to a podcast, reading an article, meeting someone new. How can I take information, synthesize it and adapt it and grow from it? That's just part of who I am in my DNA.
Coaching is a skill that most leaders sadly have had no training in. You know, you think about most managers and leaders have no idea how to adapt their leadership style. These are really, really deep skills that some of the best companies on the on the planet train on. Most mid sized companies have managers out there that have never been trained on how to run a one on one. They run them every week, right? Or they're coaching people all the time. They don't know how to coach. Like it's a really scary thing to me that, you know, let alone if you have the EQ or the iq, most people just don't even know how to be a leader.
