Coaching practices for Strengths Based Leadership After a Setback
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- Even when something goes really well I brush it off as luck or good timing, so the win never actually counts toward believing in myself
- Where I come alive is in the human glue
- I just hit a real failure
- 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’m staring down something hard now and I feel like I have no idea if I can handle it
Practices that may help
- 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. - Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
Mastery Experiences - 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 - 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 - 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 - Identify the strengths the hardship revealed
Name capacities you discovered in yourself only because the situation demanded them.
Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity - 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 - Invest more development effort in your strengths than in your weaknesses
Move from average to excellent in your strength areas rather than from poor to average in your weak ones.
Strengths-Based 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 - Apply attributional retraining to success as well as failure
Attribute genuine successes to stable, internal, and global factors — not to luck or circumstance alone.
Attributional Retraining, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Strengths Based Leadership After A Loss
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.
- Confidence After Setbacks
Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
- Mastery Experiences After A Setback
Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
- Motivated Reasoning After A Setback
When you fail or stall, return to the hoped-for self — not to the outcome goal — as your re-orienting anchor.
Invoke the possible self during setbacks
- Motivation After Failure
When you fail or stall, return to the hoped-for self — not to the outcome goal — as your re-orienting anchor.
- Redefine Success
Before arguing or planning, force a precise definition of the key terms.
Demand definitions before discussion
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