Coaching practices for Level 5 Leadership Humility and Will in Great Leaders During Conflict

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  • 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
  • When something goes wrong my first move is to find who dropped the ball, and when it goes well I quietly feel it was mostly me
  • My team only performs when I’m watching, and I keep bolting on more rules to control it, which just makes everything rigid
  • Something’s genuinely wrong here and there’s no time to coax everyone to a comfortable yes
  • My team is looking to me to read how bad things really are, and I’m stuck

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. Look out the window for credit, in the mirror for blame
    When things go well, credit others; when things go wrong, look at yourself first.
    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. Competing (assertive, uncooperative)
    Pursue your own position firmly when speed, principle, or stakes outweigh the relationship cost.
    The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles
  6. Apply the Stockdale Paradox to teams and leadership
    As a leader or team member under pressure, model the simultaneous holding of faith and brutal facts — it is contagious in both directions.
    The Stockdale Paradox, Made Practical
  7. Model vulnerability and uncertainty as a leader to accelerate safety
    Deliberately share your own uncertainties, mistakes, and questions — it gives permission for others to do the same.
    The Four Stages of Psychological Safety
  8. 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
  9. Confront the brutal facts while maintaining faith in the outcome
    Hold two things at once: unflinching honesty about current reality and unwavering belief in ultimate success.
    Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
  10. Distinguish your self from your role
    Separate who you are from the authority position you occupy — your role takes the heat, not you.
    Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical

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