Get leadership coaching like an Ivy League business school
Do you want to improve your leadership skills? Does this describe you:
- Highly motivated?
- Limited time?
- Want to know top-5 business school culture (or just learn to lead like someone from one)?
This series will help you.
Columbia Business School provides a service to its students helpful to anyone — it has each MBA candidate take a 360-degree report and gives each a coach to help interpret the results and create a plan to act on it.
I took the program and have been coaching Columbia MBA students through this program for years. Since we have only one hour but the students are so highly motivated, it’s like super-effective lightning coaching. Many students have gotten enough value to tell me things like “this is why I chose business school at Columbia” and “I can’t believe how much I could change outside the classroom.”
Over time I’ve picked up some common threads valuable to everyone looking to improve their leadership or any other business or social skills. These lightning coaching sessions are like microcosms of longer-term coaching, except that their limited time puts the onus on the client to continue on their own. If you’re looking to improve and haven’t yet decided to get a coach or go to business school, this series may work for you. (The success of these one-hour coaching sessions is why I decided to give my first hours free).
This series first describes the 360-degree report, something helpful to understand even if you don’t get to take one, just to know the process and what information you could act on. Then it describes some things you can do to create and start to implement a personal development plan.
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: 360-degree feedbacks
- A sample 360-degree feedback: Overview charts
- Leadership lessons from 360-degree feedback charts
- A sample 360-degree feedback report: more detail
- A sample 360-degree feedback report: qualitative feedback
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Improve one thing at a time
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Personal development skills
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: figuring out what to start with
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: find a relevant exercise
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Create accountability for yourself
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Use Feedforward
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Focus on the client
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: foreseeing challenges
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Weaknesses are often strengths misapplied
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Shortcomings of 360-degree feedback reports
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: School protects you so you can try new things
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Practice!
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Use your teammates
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Manage Expectations
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Common coaching topics
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Two months in Tibet
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: Assertiveness does not mean aggressive, domineering, or trying to influence
- Coaching highlights from coaching Columbia Business School students: For changes to stick, change both beliefs and behavior
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