Coaching practices for Strengths Based Leadership Before Bed

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

• Where I come alive is in the human glue
• I keep forcing myself to lead the way I think a leader is supposed to, even when it cuts against my grain, and I can’t actually name what I’m naturally good at
• I’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up
• I pour most of my effort into shoring up the things I’m bad at and it crawls
• I spend so much energy trying to fix my weak spots that my days feel like a grind against my own grain

Practices that may help

1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Use your signature strengths in a new way
   Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
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. Write three good things and their causes each evening
   Before sleep, write three specific good things that happened and — crucially — why each one happened.
   Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
9. Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
   Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
10. Set goals that build on your signature strengths
    Design goals that let your top strengths be the primary vehicle rather than your weak spots.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical

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