Coaching practices for Debate Maker Leadership Multipliers
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- I tend to decide on my own and then use the meeting just to announce it
- My team has gone quiet and careful around me
- Because I usually know the answer, I just hand it over and tell people the next step
- I say "this is yours" but the moment it starts wobbling I swoop in and take it back, and I’m realizing that hovering and rescuing tells people they were never really trusted to own it
- I’m well-meaning and I think I’m being helpful
Practices that may help
- Make decisions through debate, not declaration
Multipliers use real debate to engage the team’s best thinking before deciding; Diminishers use meetings to announce.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them - 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. - Create space — be a liberator, not a tyrant
Multipliers create an environment where people’s best thinking is expected and safe; Diminishers create tension that shuts thinking down.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them - Challenge with questions, not conclusions
Multipliers give people a mountain to climb; Diminishers tell people which step to take next.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them - Invest in people’s ownership: give stakes and stay back
Multipliers give full ownership and hold people responsible; Diminishers over-resource and under-trust.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them - Watch for the accidental diminisher patterns in yourself
Most Diminishers are not aware they are diminishing — the behaviors that made them effective as individuals undermine them as leaders.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them - Become a talent magnet: attract and deploy people at their best
Multipliers find what people do naturally well and put them in conditions where that genius is essential.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them - Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
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 - Give voice to those with uncomfortable perspectives
Actively surface and protect the dissenting or marginal voices the system wants to silence.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
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- Multipliers How Leaders Amplify The Intelligence Around Them When Burned Out
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.
- Multipliers How Leaders Amplify The Intelligence Around Them When Starting Out
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.
- Transformational Leadership Multiplier
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.
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