LEADERSHIP

«The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.»

HENRY KISSINGER

Leadership is a subject that over the years has captured the interest of the most authoritative scholars who have tried to “read” every way possible to leadership. Among them, in a corporate environment, we can use transactional leadership and transformational leadership for reference.

COACHING REPRESENTS AN EMPOWERMENT TOOL FOR LEADERS

Transactional leadership aims at improving the present situation by helping colleagues acknowledge their roles and increase group motivation. It works on two levels: reward, to keep the team’s focus on the goals and manage exceptions when they are redefined.

Unlike transactional leadership, transformational leadership is based on emotional aspects to motivate the coworkers, and valorizes subjective creativity. This can lead to a profound transformation of the mission and operational models.

ELEMENTS OF LEADERSHIP WHERE COACHING MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Coaching supports people’s learning capacity by creating awareness of their own abilities and enabling everyone to develop their own leadership style.

Possessing technical skills within one’s industry is necessary, but insufficient, for achieving a completely winning leadership. The ability to listen, communicate, control, delegate and provide feedback are some of the soft skills that characterize a real leader.

The approach of Mindevelopment to support corporate leaders and their teams unfolds in different phases.

The first, the diagnosis phase, is designed to identify which soft skills need to be reinforced, both at an individual and at a team level.

The second, the intervention phase, is designed to reinforce clients through individual or group sessions.

The third, the feedback phase, unfolds in a group session in which each team members receive feedback on the results they achieved.

This approach allows for accelerating the time required to achieve corporate goals, thanks to the particular climate of trust and collaboration that is inevitably created.

CONTACT US

The two main areas we address in coaching are leadership transition and strategic thinking.
A coach helped me build a path that suits my individual traits, identifying challenges for change, work plans, a constant assessment of results and a method to achieve them in a spontaneous and natural way.
Coaching is an investment in ourselves. It opens us up to new perspectives and breaks through boundaries, removing obstacles and facilitating inclusion. It is therefore essential to be committed, before starting the process, to have clear ideas and devote quality time to the process. Coaches, in turn, must be excellent leaders to obtain good results. In my case, thanks to Marcella, it worked.

E.S.

Coaching with Marcella Accorinti began in the usual way, working on specific professional goals.
Marcella’s professionalism, together with her humanity and talent, created the space for my personal journey, which gradually became more important than my initial professional goal.
The work I did with Marcella turned out to be a multi-year experience that today still accompanies me today in my thoughts and choices.

M.S.

Thanks to the journey undertaken at Mindevelopment with Marcella Accorinti, and which involved the entire front line of the company, both individually and as a team, we have managed to achieve incredible results, both in terms of communication and of collaboration and inclusion.
These behavioural changes have transformed an already well-matched team into a group of people ready to discuss any issue in a transparent manner, respecting the specialists, but also listening to the less experienced on the subject, enriching the level of discussion.
A side effect was the increase in the sense of irony at learning how to “laugh at ourselves” lowered the communication barriers as well.

S.E.

The coaching experience, through real and very often painful and difficult passages, made me understand how it is possible to change and achieve great results at work.
I experimented with approaches and behaviours that weren’t instinctive or natural for me. Doing this with a coach who listens to you and provides feedback in a transparent, sincere and sometimes even ‘ruthless’ way, has given me the strength to ‘try’ and often ‘succeed’.
Without coaching I would not have tried these things, and it would never even have occurred to me to look at my managerial style from a different angle.

A.P.

I started a coaching journey with Marcella thinking that it would be very confrontational. But her coaching has proven to be a true personal and professional empowerment tool.
Over time, a relationship of trust was forged with my coach that exceeded all expectations, and has allowed for increasingly clear and transparent discussion during coaching sessions.
I never expected to start such a profound process of change in terms of behaviour and communication, and now I can apply coaching techniques even in the absence of the Coach

A.S.

The company helmed by Dr. Marcella Accorinti stands out in an original way, both in its diagnostic and operational phases. In our case, there was a dual objective: one, improving our soft managerial skills (e.g. the ability to delegate), and two, strengthen the abilities of the first and second level team members. The great ability to listen and the vast experience of Dr. Accorinti and her associates were met with extremely positive feedback from the managers and made it possible to successfully achieve our set goals. Here the distinction lies in a ‘tailored’ approach to the needs of individual managers, without ever losing the overall cohesion of the project. In short, ours was a particularly positive experience that we recommend to any company interested in the enhancement of their human capital.

V.M.

I had the opportunity to embark on an executive coaching course with Marcella Accorinti as part of a company project. Marcella’s experience and professionalism are highly distinctive and her ability to understand and lead you “to the heart of the matter” are astonishing.
With careful skill, she trained me to exploit my potential, provide focus to my professional career and my expectations for the overall growth of the company.
This will forever remain a point of reference on my professional path. Thank you Marcella!!

P.D.L.