How Can Embodied Coaching Help You Become a Successful Leader?
Posted on April 18, 2021 by Sharon Davis Brown, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
Embodied leadership coaching can increase your ability to communicate effectively with your employees or clients.
If you are moving up the corporate ladder, and want to be a positive influence on your team, embodied leadership coaching can help. Embodied leadership coaching can increase your self-awareness, which allows you to communicate more effectively with your team, employees, or customers. It helps you develop “soft skills” that enhance your leadership abilities.
What Are the Qualities of a Successful Leader?
Have you asked yourself about the qualities of a successful leader? Those qualities or characteristics might include:
Integrity
Accountability
Analytical skills
Decisiveness
Ability to share their vision
Ability to inspire others
This list could be expanded, however, the point is there are specific qualities that make or break a successful leader. Being a successful leader is not only about reading a financial spreadsheet. Leadership is about positively influencing others in an authentic and supportive manner.
Leadership means charting new territory with an optimistic attitude so that other people within your organization benefit from a shared vision. This can increase sales, productivity, and overall performance. Embodied Leadership coaching can help leaders develop and refine these essential qualities within themselves.
What Makes Embodied Leadership Coaching Different?
A successful leader may know how to read spreadsheets and lead shareholder business meetings, but there are other qualities just as important that define leadership capabilities.
There are soft skills that are equally critical that can be improved through embodied leadership coaching. Somatic techniques can improve your leadership abilities in ways traditional coaching cannot. Embodied leadership training is conducted through somatic training and practices such as the following:
Active listening through role-playing exercises
Breathing exercises to connect to the body
Muscular awareness training (to identify tension or flexibility)
Non-verbal teamwork exercises and training
The exercises listed above work differently than traditional coaching by helping clients build awareness of their nonverbal cues and the way they present themselves. These exercises help clients build rapport with those they interact with, clients, co-workers, and customers alike. These nonverbal skills are generally not emphasized in traditional coaching.
Embodied leadership coaching focuses on somatic-based exercises rather than academic knowledge to build soft skills.
Why Choose Embodied Leadership Coaching?
Embodied leadership coaching is designed to solve a client’s problem. This may be done by increasing confidence, building effective interpersonal skills, becoming a more confident speaker, or a constructive listener. Embodied leadership coaching teaches leaders to develop and implement skills such as active listening through practice, perseverance, and self-reflection. This means consistently practicing listening to others without preconceptions.
This training helps cultivate leadership skills such as active listening. Leaders with this skill set absorb information and respond only when other people complete their sentences. This skill set can enhance the quality of leaders by helping integrate alternative viewpoints and perspectives they may have otherwise overlooked or dismissed.
In the end, embodied leadership coaching is about building a better version of yourself.
Interested in Learning More About Becoming a Successful Leader?
If you want to learn more about embodied leadership coaching and how it can help you, please schedule an appointment for a free thirty-minute consultation at Art of Business Coaching. We will be happy to answer any questions you have about somatic-based coaching and help determine if embodied leadership coaching is right for you.
