Leaders Are Born Not Made
by. Doaa K. Darwish
If somebody wasn’t born with the core values and got raised and programmed, interacted with and got influenced by circumstances that caused him to develop core values and beliefs that brings him or her to be fit to be a leader, then companies are definitely hiring the wrong people to manage a group of followers (not team in this occasion). And if a company hires a wrong person to lead a team why coach them into something that will be extremely hard for them to grasp and get accustomed to? Doesn’t this negate the most recent theory which applauded coaching based on appreciative inquiry where 77% of coaches worldwide agreed that coaching proved more effective if they focused on working on an employees' strengths. On the other hand only 23% pf coaches agreed working on employees weaknesses gives less room for improvement.
I am really stupefied by the colossal attention for Leadership Coaching in the industry that took place for in the past few years which reached about 60% in 2017 - rising from 43% in 2006.
This ate away at Coaching people with a specific problem or challenge which fell from 37% in 2006 down to only 20% in 2017 (Executive Coaching Survey 2017, Sherpa Coaching). Does leadership coaching need all of this attention. Are coaches more attentive to coach heads and supervisors on developing their leadership at the expense of measuring if they were hired in the rights place at all? Just to bring you close to where my thinking is at – could you answer questions like, why would anybody wish to coach a person with a supervisory role on Leadership:
- If they is naturally selfish and self-absorbed?
- Who has no empathy for people by nature?
- Who doesn’t have a clear-cut mission in life?
- Who naturally tells lies to get to what they want?
- Who is competitive with their subordinates?
- Who naturally likes to take credit for any achievement in their department?
- Who doesn’t know anything and couldn’t care less for their employees’ personal well-being?
- Who cares to look good before their superiors and never their subordinates?
- Who never notice if their employees were really ‘happy’ ?
- ….. I could go on forever…
Core values which come in for natural born leaders are:
- Would be really depressed live without interacting with a team on a daily basis
- Would like to think about the formal and personal lives of people around you
- Would hate to follow the crowd and get inclined to people with unique point of views
- Would are Open and interested to listen to ‘strange’ opinions or observations and may even find them exciting
- Would Are able to take massive risks and live with the consequences no matter what
- Would not care what people think about you and not particularly sensitive about people’s feelings when it comes to necessary actions or ‘right’ decisions.
- Would Like to engage in arguments, they empower you
- Would Like to challenge and be challenged by people
In 2015, a research was conducted to find half of the US workers have left a job because they
hated their boss. “Gallup surveyed over 7,000 members of the US workforce and found that half of them have left a job at some point in their careers solely because they could no longer put up with their manager”. https://qz.com/375353/half-of-us-workers-have-left-a-job-because-they-hated-their-boss/
It was reported that only 35% of managers in the US fall under Gallup’s definition of “engaged.” The problem was that Fifty-one percent are not engaged, and 14% are actively disengaged—at least according to their employees. “Gallup estimates that bosses who are not engaged together cost the US economy almost $100 billion annually, a figure Gallup calculated by looking at over 260 separate studies from 34 different countries.” https://qz.com/375353/half-of-us-workers-have-left-a-job-because-they-hated-their-boss/
So does it make sense to coach all department heads on leadership, without even assessing if they have the capacity to be leaders? When will anybody interview their subordinates check if if they believe 1 or envision them as leaders?
Why coach people with high technical skills on leadership rather than coach natural leaders on technical skills? Which is easier to grasp? To coach somebodies mind or try to change their beliefs and core values?
Source: www.trainersbox.com