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For the last 20 years, there has been exponential growth in the number of leadership coaches in corporations and political organizations. The job of leadership coaches is to work with leaders to help them think through leadership and organizational issues and to hold leaders accountable to their commitments. When people talk about reflection, self-reflective consciousness, reflexivity, or other variations of the reflection concept, there is an uncritically accepted connotation of goodness. While CSR is defined as an inward focus of attention on self, with a questioning and critical quality of consciousness, there are ways to distinguish different variations of CSR, and this deeper level of insight will be very useful for a leadership coach. Leadership coaches need to be aware that in fostering CSR, they are practicing confidence in the human capacity to choose freely. With the help of leadership coaches, leaders gain perspective on the familiar while encountering alternative ways to view self and one's role as a leader.
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Self-Reflection: A Primer for Leadership Coaches
For the last 20 years, there has been exponential growth in the number of leadership coaches in corporations and political organizations. The job of leadership coaches is to work with leaders to help them think through leadership and organizational issues and to hold leaders accountable to their commitments. They ask challenging and provocative questions that leaders have to answer. That is the basis of the agreement.
I believe that the best coaches are those who are able to create the conditions necessary to engage leaders, primarily through conversation, in the type of searching and self-questioning that I call "critical ...See the full content of this document
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