Coaching practices for Directing Leadership Style
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- 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 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
- My team just executes whatever I hand them and never pushes back or brings me a better idea
- What I love is taking a vague idea and grinding it into something done and shipped
- My mind is always running two years ahead
Practices that may help
- 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 - Supporting — step back on direction, stay high on support
For the capable-but-cautious performer, lighten the instructions and bolster their confidence.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Directing — high direction for the eager novice
With someone new and keen but unskilled, give clear, specific instruction and tight structure.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Build the flexibility to switch styles
The skill the model actually demands is style range — most leaders overuse one default.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Delegating — hand over both direction and decision
With a skilled, committed performer, give the goal and the authority, then get out of the way.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - Challenge assumptions and invite new thinking
Actively encourage your team to question old ways and generate new approaches.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - 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 - Lead from the strategic thinking domain — absorb and analyze information
People strong in strategic thinking keep the team focused on what could be, not just what is.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Executing Leadership Style
People strong in executing know how to take an idea and make it happen.
Lead from the executing domain — deliver on goals consistently
- Supporting Leadership Style
The skill the model actually demands is style range — most leaders overuse one default.
Build the flexibility to switch styles
- Does Situational Leadership Work
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
- Holding Position Leadership
Hold the team’s resources and future in trust — decide for the long game, not just this quarter.
Practice foresight and stewardship
- Situational Leadership For My Teenager
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
- Situational Leadership In A New Job
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
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