Coaching practices for Good to Great Leadership

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Good to Great Leadership, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• 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
• I keep lurching from one big new initiative to the next, each one wiping out whatever momentum the last was building, and I’m exhausted with nothing to show
• My team only performs when I’m watching, and I keep bolting on more rules to control it, which just makes everything rigid
• Part of me wants to keep my best people in roles that serve me and to pick a successor who won’t outshine me
• I’ve basically written my team off as weak

Practices that may help

1. Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
   Jim Collins’ Good to Great research found that the leaders who took companies from good to great shared a paradoxical combination of fierce personal will and deep personal humility — what Collins calls Level 5 Leadership. They channeled ambition into the institution, not themselves, and set up successors for greatness rather than engineering dependence.
2. 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
3. Build the flywheel through consistent small pushes
   Great results come from sustained, consistent effort in one direction — not a single dramatic transformation.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
4. Build a culture of discipline, not a disciplinarian culture
   Hire self-disciplined people, then give them freedom within a clear framework.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
5. Develop successors who will surpass you
   Invest in your successor’s success as a deliberate act of institutional ambition.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
6. 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
7. Get the right people on the bus before setting direction
   Prioritize who is doing the work before deciding what to do.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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

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