Coaching practices for Servant Leadership After a Setback
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Everything still routes through me
- Everyone brings their problems to me to solve, I jump in and fix each one, and now I’m the bottleneck for everything while my people never grow
- 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
- I just hit a real failure
- Someone on my team is underperforming and I keep collapsing the two things together
Practices that may help
- Build people’s autonomy and capability
The aim is people who need you less over time, not more.
Servant Leadership, Made Practical - Give the work back without abandoning people
Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - Recover from setbacks without quitting the goal
Build a routine for bouncing back so setbacks don’t end the pursuit.
Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed - Lead with empathy and acceptance
Accept the person fully even while refusing to accept poor performance.
Servant Leadership, Made Practical - Hold steady when the system pushes back
Expect displacement, scapegoating, and pressure to return to the old equilibrium — and stay the course.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Take extreme ownership
When the team fails, the leader looks first at what the leader did or failed to do.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical - Repair a damaged leader-follower relationship deliberately
Take active steps to reset a deteriorated relationship, rather than allowing avoidance to compound the damage.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Invoke the possible self during setbacks
When you fail or stall, return to the hoped-for self — not to the outcome goal — as your re-orienting anchor.
Possible Selves, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Adaptive Leadership After A Loss
Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
Regulate the level of distress in the system
- Adaptive Leadership After A Setback
Expect displacement, scapegoating, and pressure to return to the old equilibrium — and stay the course.
Hold steady when the system pushes back
- Servant Leadership After A Loss
Accept the person fully even while refusing to accept poor performance.
Lead with empathy and acceptance
- Situational Leadership After A Loss
When early enthusiasm dips but skill is still forming, combine clear guidance with active encouragement.
Coaching — high direction and high support for the disillusioned learner
- Leader Member Exchange Lmx After A Setback
Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
Deliberately expand your inner circle
- Situational Leadership After A Setback
When early enthusiasm dips but skill is still forming, combine clear guidance with active encouragement.
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