Coaching practices for Diffusion of Innovations Leadership
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m pouring all my energy into winning over the people who don’t buy in, and meanwhile the few who already get it and go above and beyond are quietly running on empty because I never invest in them.
- Everything still flows through me
- My team just executes whatever I hand them and never pushes back or brings me a better idea
- I lead by directing and correcting and stepping in to fix things, and my team has gone quiet and passive, waiting to be told
- I’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up
Practices that may help
- Communicate your Why to those who already believe it
The most efficient expansion is not converting skeptics — it is finding people who already share your belief.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose - Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves. - Challenge assumptions and invite new thinking
Actively encourage your team to question old ways and generate new approaches.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Leading from behind — the servant leader stance
Influence others more through example, listening, and restraint than through assertion and command.
The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical - Coaching — high direction and high support for the disillusioned learner
When early enthusiasm dips but skill is still forming, combine clear guidance with active encouragement.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - 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 - Invite clients or reports to contribute insight to your approach
Asking someone you lead for their input increases their investment in the outcome.
The Ben Franklin Effect, Made Practical - Assign one owner to every Action Step
Any Action Step shared by multiple owners effectively has no owner — every step needs exactly one named person responsible.
The Action Method, Made Practical - Believe — and make the why clear
You cannot lead people toward a mission you do not understand or believe in yourself.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership At Work
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership For My Teenager
Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
Give the work back without abandoning people
- Adaptive Leadership Practices
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership With Friends
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership With My Partner
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
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