{"id":1275,"date":"2006-09-15T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2006-09-28T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T08:39:37","slug":"coaching-for-iskcon-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"COACHING FOR ISKCON LEADERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kalende.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>By Akrura dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is coaching?<\/p>\n<p>Coaching is one-to-one assistance that helps people clarify their priorities and use their qualities and skills to succeed in their chosen areas. Coaching for ISKCON leaders, in particular, assists them in ways that honour their individuality, at the same time considering their service to ISKCON.<\/p>\n<p>As ISKCON has grown over the past forty years, the need for first-class spiritual leaders has become obvious. Apart from spiritual training through the morning program, scriptural study and senior guidance, there seems to be a need for learning skills such as inspiring and energizing devotees, respect for devotees from diverse backgrounds, and adapting to rapid change. Some leaders take time to upgrade their leadership skills, whether through ISKCON or professional sources. Although this is valuable, regular systematic coaching can help them to be even more effective, as well as immensely benefit their temples, projects and zones.<\/p>\n<p>Coaching ISKCON leaders:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Helps them more clearly recognise their strengths and challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Enables them to choose wisely how to react to events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Improves their self-discipline and communication and relationship skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Integrates their personal well-being and spiritual development with ISKCON\u2019s missionary goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Reduces destructive and self-destructive behaviours, enhances teamwork, aligns individuals to collective goals, facilitates training new leaders, and supports ISKCON\u2019s continuing improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Enables them release other devotees&#8217; full potential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Helps attract intelligent people to Krsna consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that coaching ISKCON leaders will help them succeed both short- term and long-term; it will help fulfil Srila Prabhupada\u2019s desire to have first-class devotees who will lead the global community to a bright Krishna conscious future.<\/p>\n<p>Akrura dasa (Akrura@pamho.net) Bhaktivedanta Coaching ISKCON Soho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kswder_isb.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Akrura dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> As ISKCON has grown over the past forty years, the need for first-class spiritual leaders has become obvious. Apart from spiritual training through the morning program, scriptural study and senior guidance, there seems to be a need for learning skills such as inspiring and energizing devotees, respect for devotees from diverse backgrounds, and adapting to rapid change.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}