Coaching practices for Liz Wiseman Leadership

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• I lead by directing and correcting and stepping in to fix things, and my team has gone quiet and passive, waiting to be told
• My team has gone quiet and careful around me
• I’m well-meaning and I think I’m being helpful
• My mind is always running two years ahead
• I’ve been pouring energy into vision and inspiration and it’s landing as hollow

Practices that may help

1. Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
   Liz Wiseman’s research found that the best leaders — Multipliers — extract far more capability from their people than average leaders do, not by being smarter, but by creating conditions where others’ intelligence can fully operate. Diminishers, the opposite, may be brilliant and well-intentioned but systematically suppress the thinking around them. The research is interview-based across multiple organizations — observational, not experimental — but the mechanisms align with well-established research on autonomy, self-efficacy, and psychological safety.
2. Leading from behind — the servant leader stance
   Influence others more through example, listening, and restraint than through assertion and command.
   The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical
3. Create space — be a liberator, not a tyrant
   Multipliers create an environment where people’s best thinking is expected and safe; Diminishers create tension that shuts thinking down.
   Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Watch for the accidental diminisher patterns in yourself
   Most Diminishers are not aware they are diminishing — the behaviors that made them effective as individuals undermine them as leaders.
   Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
7. Lead from the strategic thinking domain — absorb and analyze information
   People strong in strategic thinking keep the team focused on what could be, not just what is.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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

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