Dr Epiphania Kimaro

Why Coaching for Junior- and Mid-level Leaders?

As individuals move into leadership roles, their ability to influence and manage impact becomes crucial for success. Expanding one’s sphere of influence and managing impact necessitate significant mindset shifts, including heightened self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and resourcefulness. Cultivating these essential mindset shifts for leadership success is a deeply personalised endeavour, best supported through quality coaching. This is especially important as junior and mid-level leaders are facing increasing organisational pressure  to do more, faster, and with fewer resources.

However, extensive research indicates that as organisations move accountability downwards, they often fail to develop the right capabilities and mindset shifts at the right time lower in the leadership pipeline. Consequently, leadership capacity gaps often surface at senior and executive levels, necessitating correction through executive coaching, costly high-potential leadership development programs, or selection processes.

Yet, over 1,000 global executives have identified their biggest challenge as developing the next generation of leaders (Global Leadership Forecast 2018). Therefore, by offering coaching as a personalised development initiative to potential and current first-line and middle leaders, organisations can create strong pipelines of future leaders prepared for the demanding tasks ahead.