Coaching practices for Full Range Leadership Model

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  • 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
  • Everything still flows through me
  • I treat my whole team the same way and run the same kind of one-on-one with everyone, and it’s landing flat
  • Where I come alive is in the human glue
  • I’ve been pouring energy into vision and inspiration and it’s landing as hollow

Practices that may help

  1. Build the flexibility to switch styles
    The skill the model actually demands is style range — most leaders overuse one default.
    Situational Leadership, Made Practical
  2. 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
  3. Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
    Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
  4. Treat each person as an individual with distinct needs and aspirations
    Know what each team member needs to grow and provide support tailored to them.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. Establish transactional reliability before adding transformational layers
    Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
  8. 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
  9. Assess readiness task by task, not person by person
    Rate competence and commitment for the specific task in front of them, not the person overall.
    Situational Leadership, Made Practical
  10. Build a team whose combined strengths cover all four domains
    Hire and assemble deliberately for domain coverage, not for people who think like you.
    Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical

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