Coaching practices for Leadership Standards

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

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

• I’ve basically written my team off as weak
• I stand up and tell my team what we value, but I’ve started to wonder whether my own choices actually match the words
• I’ve been pouring energy into vision and inspiration and it’s landing as hollow
• 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
• We’ve got nice-sounding values up on the wall and the website, but they do nothing in the room when a real hiring or judgment call is on the table

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
   Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
3. 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
4. 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
5. Make core values operational, not decorative
   Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
6. Manage LMX differentiation fairly as a leader
   Acknowledge that you develop different relationships with different people — and ensure the differences are earned, not arbitrary.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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.
10. Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
    Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical

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