Coaching practices for Person Job Fit Leadership
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
- I do my job competently and stay neatly inside my lane, and I sense that’s exactly why I’m read as just-a-role-filler
- I look around at the people I’ve hired and they all think exactly like me
- I’ve got talented people but I keep slotting them in by whoever’s free or whatever their title says, and I can feel their real gifts going to waste
- I’ve quietly filed each person on my team as strong or weak, and then I’m baffled when my "strong" one flounders on something new
Practices that may help
- Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose - Expand your role through extra-role behavior
Voluntarily take on work beyond your formal responsibilities to signal readiness for a higher-trust relationship.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Build a team whose combined strengths cover all four domains
Hire and assemble deliberately for domain coverage, not for people who think like you.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Become a talent magnet: attract and deploy people at their best
Multipliers find what people do naturally well and put them in conditions where that genius is essential.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them - Assess readiness task by task, not person by person
Rate competence and commitment for the specific task in front of them, not the person overall.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Treat each person as an individual with distinct needs and aspirations
Know what each team member needs to grow and provide support tailored to them.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Coach the person, not just the problem
The most important thing a manager can work on is the person’s capacity to handle future problems, not just today’s.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - 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 - 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 - Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Person Organization Fit Hiring
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
- Strategy Person Fit
Adapt your approach to someone else’s style without abandoning your own.
Style-flex without losing authenticity
- Full Range Leadership Model
The skill the model actually demands is style range — most leaders overuse one default.
Build the flexibility to switch styles
- Complementary Team Strengths
Hire and assemble deliberately for domain coverage, not for people who think like you.
Build a team whose combined strengths cover all four domains
- Hiring For Character
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
- Identity Based Leadership
Separate who you are from the authority position you occupy — your role takes the heat, not you.
Distinguish your self from your role
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