Coaching practices for How Do You Become a Better Leader in Your Company
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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 delivering work I’m proud of and it somehow lands flat with my boss, and I’m realizing I have no real idea what they’re actually being judged on or pressured about
- There are people on my team I’ve quietly written off
- 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
- I’ve basically written my team off as weak
Practices that may help
- 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 - Map your manager’s top three priorities
Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Deliberately expand your inner circle
Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), 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 - 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 - Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Influence through persuasion, not positional power
Build consensus and convince rather than command — authority is the last resort, not the first.
Servant Leadership, Made Practical - Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
Transformational 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 - Set quarterly rocks — the three to five priorities each leader must advance
Each leadership team member commits to three to five specific outcomes to deliver this quarter.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
Related concerns
- How Can I Become A Better Leader At Work
Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
Map your manager’s top three priorities
- How Can I Become A Good Leader
Influence others more through example, listening, and restraint than through assertion and command.
Leading from behind — the servant leader stance
- Influencing Leadership
People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
- How Do I Become A Good Leader What Are Some Tips From Experts In The Field
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
- Idealized Influence Leadership
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
- Authentic Leadership
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
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