Coaching practices for Compounding Leadership
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep forcing myself to lead the way I think a leader is supposed to, even when it cuts against my grain, and I can’t actually name what I’m naturally good at
- Where I come alive is in the human glue
- Everything still flows through me
- What I love is taking a vague idea and grinding it into something done and shipped
- I keep catching myself making calls based on how they’ll make me look rather than what’s actually best for the thing I’m building
Practices that may help
- Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Lead from the relationship building domain — hold the team together
People strong in relationship building are the glue that holds a team’s cohesion under pressure.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
Strengths-based leadership, developed by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie building on Gallup’s decades of manager research, holds that the most effective leaders invest in their own strengths and build teams whose combined strengths cover all four leadership domains — executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking. Gallup’s correlational research consistently finds that strength-focused teams report higher engagement and performance, though the causal direction is not fully established. - Lead from the executing domain — deliver on goals consistently
People strong in executing know how to take an idea and make it happen.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Channel ambition to the institution, not yourself
Care more about the organization’s success than your personal legacy.
Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders - Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
Liz Wiseman’s research found that the best leaders — Multipliers — extract far more capability from their people than average leaders do, not by being smarter, but by creating conditions where others’ intelligence can fully operate. Diminishers, the opposite, may be brilliant and well-intentioned but systematically suppress the thinking around them. The research is interview-based across multiple organizations — observational, not experimental — but the mechanisms align with well-established research on autonomy, self-efficacy, and psychological safety. - Reciprocate when your leader invests in you
When a leader gives you trust, opportunity, or advocacy, close the loop with visible follow-through.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Manage LMX differentiation fairly as a leader
Acknowledge that you develop different relationships with different people — and ensure the differences are earned, not arbitrary.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - There are no bad teams, only bad leaders
The same people perform differently under different leadership — so start with the leadership.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Leadership Foundation
Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
Establish transactional reliability before adding transformational layers
- Leadership Principles
Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
- Leadership Standards
The same people perform differently under different leadership — so start with the leadership.
There are no bad teams, only bad leaders
- Personalized Leadership
Know what each team member needs to grow and provide support tailored to them.
Treat each person as an individual with distinct needs and aspirations
- Four Domains Leadership
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
- Gallup Strengths Leadership
Strengths-based leadership, developed by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie building on Gallup’s decades of manager research, holds that the most effective leaders invest in their own strengths and build teams whose combined strengths cover all four leadership domains — executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking. Gallup’s correlational research consistently finds that strength-focused teams report higher engagement and performance, though the causal direction is not fully established.
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