Coaching practices for Level 5 Leadership Humility and Will in Great Leaders in a New Job

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  • 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 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
  • I just took over a brand-new team and everyone’s being polite and looking to me for everything

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. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Forming: provide clarity before connection
    In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
    Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
  7. Match the delegation level to the person’s current competence and confidence
    Over-delegate to someone who isn’t ready and they fail; under-delegate and they stagnate.
    Delegation Levels, Made Practical
  8. Directing — high direction for the eager novice
    With someone new and keen but unskilled, give clear, specific instruction and tight structure.
    Situational Leadership, Made Practical
  9. Coaching — high direction and high support for the disillusioned learner
    When early enthusiasm dips but skill is still forming, combine clear guidance with active encouragement.
    Situational Leadership, Made Practical
  10. 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

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