Coaching practices for Level 5 Leadership Humility and Will in Great Leaders When Starting Out

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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
• Part of me wants to keep my best people in roles that serve me and to pick a successor who won’t outshine 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’ve been pouring energy into vision and inspiration and it’s landing as hollow

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. 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
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. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
    Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical

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