Coaching practices for Strategic Focus Leadership

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My mind is always running two years ahead
• Our weekly leadership meeting is just a round-robin of status updates where everyone reports and nobody actually decides anything
• Every team here is busy chasing its own goals and the cross-cutting thing that actually matters keeps falling through the cracks
• 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
• We set a company goal for the quarter but it just floats at the top and never lands on anyone in particular

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Run a weekly leadership team meeting focused on strategic issues
   Hold a structured weekly meeting that separates strategic issues from operational updates.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
3. Set one organization-wide priority per quarter
   Identify the single most important thing the company must accomplish this quarter, and make it everyone’s top priority.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
4. 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
5. 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.
6. Set quarterly rocks — the three to five priorities each leader must advance
   Each leadership team member commits to three to five specific outcomes to deliver this quarter.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
7. Lead from the executing domain — deliver on goals consistently
   People strong in executing know how to take an idea and make it happen.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
8. Practice foresight and stewardship
   Hold the team’s resources and future in trust — decide for the long game, not just this quarter.
   Servant Leadership, Made Practical
9. Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
   People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
10. Find your hedgehog concept — the one thing you can be best at
    Identify the intersection of what you can be best at, what drives your economic engine, and what you are deeply passionate about.
    Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders

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