Leadership Coaching for Women

Women Leaders face specific challenges in business because traditionally it has always been men leading women. If you’ve been given a position of Leadership within an organisation, you have power to make decisions and take action that affects other people. In the past women were given the power to make decisions about the home and raising children but not about leadership in business organisations. Now that women find themselves in positions of leadership in business, they need to use their power very carefully.

In the 1980s, women leaders often tried to act like male leaders and set aside much of their femininity. As women leaders have become more accepted by the business world, they have shifted their leadership style to allow more of their innate femininity to show through.

Leadership coaching for anyone is about feeling confident enough to be yourself and lead. Leadership coaching for women is therefore concerned with how women find their inner confidence to lead in a way that feels natural to them. Brash outward confidence is often a bluff, as the inner person has to maintain their tough exterior. This leadership style is exhausting.

Truly building inner confidence allows women leaders to relax in their roles, act genuinely and gain trust, support and respect from those around them.

Women leaders are still very much in the minority and are therefore responsible, whether they like it or not, for breaking down the old culture of an exclusively male business world. This is tough, however the best women leaders won’t fight their way through, they will quietly, confidently gain respect in their own Leadership style without creating friction in the workplace. Leadership Coaching for Women is a specialist form of Coaching.

Rebecca Watson specialises in Organisational Development and Change. She has worked with a wide variety of coaching organisations and leaders to empower them to deliver through high performing teams.