Understanding how coaching can positively impact leadership development and enterprise productivity MARCH , 2014 Dear Mogree While working with Dr Michael Hall in Kenya earlier this year, I was privileged to be interviewed for theEdition - on of Kenyas top business magazines. I wanted to share this article with you and hope that you will enjoy reading it. If you do not wish to receive any future articles, please UNSUBSCRIBE below and you will be automatically removed from my mailing list. If you enjoy this article, please feel free to share it. With respect, Kgobati Kgobati Magome Community Innovations Email: [email protected] Website: communityinnovations.co.za Article from Kenyan business magazine: theEdition E: How Do You Describe What You Do To People Who Do Not Know You? I work with companies and individuals to help them get more done, with fewer resources, in less time - and increase their Return On Investment. I work with company executives and teams to help create a pleasant productive culture at work and help catalyse peak staff performance. Using simple tools, we help unlock excellence in others through leadership training, team development and executive coaching solutions - based on Cognitive Behavioural Development and and Self Actualisation Psychology. E: Who Is Your Typical Client? Human Resources Directors of companies as an entry point to their companies, and individuals with leadership responsibility, and a passion to be more, do more and experience more in their personal and work lives. E: How Do You Market Your Services? The foundation for our marketing is to ensure high quality service to ensure repeat business. We also give presentations to HR executives and leverage email campaigns. E: What Does Success Within Your Profession Look Like? Success in my profession is about ‘Making a Difference’. It is enabling organisations and individuals to transform, align more with their true values, think differently and have richer, more robust meanings for their lives and work; and achieve their highest and best. E: Before You Became An Executive Coach, You Had Pursued Other Paths – How Did You End Up Doing What You Are Doing Today? As a young girl growing up in the village and going through high school, I wanted to be a medical doctor. That dream was however cut short by below-par Matric results. Plan B was to study a Science related degree - so I enrolled for a Bachelor of Science course which saw me qualify to become a teacher. To satisfy my desire for medicine, I continued studying and obtained a Masters in Medical Microbiology. My passion for people and development landed me in nice comfortable positions including a top job in the United Nations and several other ensuing high profile positions. The common thread with all of them was my passion for people and their health. Despite the comforts and perks of the positions, I was not satisfied, as I wanted to contribute more. While all of this was happening, I was also doing voluntary counselling at Lifeline, and in my personal life with friends, as well as the strangers I would meet while waiting at the bank or grocery store. For some reason, strangers would often readily share their life challenges with me. Then, as life would have it, one friend gave me the book Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins, and another suggested I check out a course she had seen on Coaching. Both were suggesting that perhaps I needed to formalise what seemed to be a natural inclination to motivate and inspire others to overcome their challenges and be their best. I read the book, and went for my first coaching course, and my life changed forever. With coaching, my entire skills-set and experience fell into place. I felt at home. I went on to do intensive international training to become an International Meta- Coach and a Trainer of Coaches under the auspices of the International Society of Neurosemantics and the renowned Dr Michael Hall. I now coach internationally, and belong to a coaching network that operates in 54 countries. E: Do You Feel That You Selected This Profession Or Did It Select You? The profession selected me. My natural ‘wiring’ landed me in the profession. My passion for people and desire to see African leaders that are well equipped to lead the continent to new heights got me here. My own personal challenges also propelled me to look for answers and learn about how the human mind works, and how to motivate and get the best out of psychologically healthy individuals. E: From Where Do You Get Your Inspiration? From a ‘knowing’ that is deep down, every one of us wants to experience life fully, and be part of something significant. I am meant to do my part to contribute. E: What Has Been Your Recipe For Success? Having the courage to take the steps in front of me, and just keeping at it, day after day. Living by one of Mandela’s famous quotes, “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”. So it is okay for me to fall and to just rise and start walking again. I talk to myself often; look for ways to stay motivated and maintain a support network. I am lucky to have people in my life who I can bounce ideas with. E: What Are The Most And Least Rewarding Aspects Of Your Job? Hearing and receiving positive testimonials from those I have worked with. So far, there have been no negative aspects. E: What Education Requirements, College Degrees, Licenses Are Needed For What You Do? You can become a coach at any level. However, your level of qualification will determine who you are able to coach and where you will be comfortable. As a coach, registration with the International Coaching Federation is critical and licensing typically happens at national and international levels. I belong to both the International and Local Meta-Coach Foundations, as well as the Coaching and Mentoring Association of Southern Africa (COMENSA) and the International Society of Neurosemantics. The Licence certifies the quality of the product you offer, and bears testimony to the fact that you are able to do what you claim. E: And What Are the Most Important Skills And Competencies Required To Excel? • Ability to build rapport and connect with others • Skill of active listening and being present to another • Skill of asking great powerful questions • Inducing and managing states • Giving feedback • Receiving feedback E: What Are The Best Opportunities For Someone Entering This Field? Opportunities exist for all ages and gender - particularly for youth and men. The profession is dominated by women, with fewer men and fewer black individuals compared to white counterparts. Given that men still make the majority of those in leadership in Africa and the world over, there is opportunity for men to become coaches and flourish in this profession. E: Are There Any Trends That Will Make This Career Choice More Or Less Attractive In The Future? This career choice is currently growing in Africa and within the black populations. There is need for it - coaching and training are key to developing the leadership that will make the achievement of dreams possible. E: Would You Say That You Are Driving Your Career From The Front Or Are You Going With The Tide? I am driving my career from the front. E: Who Is The One Professional Whose Career You Admire/Why? I admire the career of Connie Gakonyo – current Chief of Staff in the First Lady’s office. This is a woman who has triumphed over personal challenges and built a successful career for herself. I can relate to her life path, and feel inspired by her story and that of the many women you have featured in the EDITION. E: What Is The Best Book You Have Read In The Last 5 Years? The One Minute Millionaire by the legendary Robert Allen. The book outlines some little things that require one minute of my time and enrich my life in more ways than one. E: What Is Your Life Motto? Embrace life and use all that God has given you to live it to the fullest while impacting others positively E: When All Is Said And Done What Would You Most Like To Have Achieved? To have made a contribution to the development of self-driven, ethical leaders with strong values for a thriving Africa and to have made a contribution to young people and women living their lives to the fullest, using all that God has given them to create a life for themselves, their children and loved ones. Kgobati Magome is the Managing Director of Community Innovations and MindLib Leadership Solutions, a company focussing on innovative and transformative solutions to Leadership and Workplace Excellence. In addition, she is Head of Pelontle Holdings - a Womens Investment House aimed at sourcing and managing triple bottom line business ventures for women. Based in South Africa and increasingly working in Eastern Africa as well, her career has spanned over tow decades working in the development and business sectors specifically facilitating the development of organisational strategies and policies, and serving as a professional technical advisor. She is the former Special Policy Adviser to the Minister of Education and Chief Director in the Ministry of Education in South Africa. Kgobati is a professional of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and now runs a successful Leadership Development and Coaching Practice. 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