Coaching practices for Strengths Based Leadership During a Big Change
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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’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up
- My mind is always running two years ahead
- 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
- When I push my team on the hard stuff they either shut down and start blaming each other or just nod and carry on as before
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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Regulate the level of distress in the system
Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
Adaptive 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 - 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 - Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
Transformational 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
Related concerns
- Adaptive Leadership Development
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Four Domains Leadership Strengths
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
- Full Range Leadership Model
The skill the model actually demands is style range — most leaders overuse one default.
Build the flexibility to switch styles
- How To Lead From Strengths
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.
- Influencing Strengths Domain
People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
- Leadership Communication Strengths
People strong in relationship building are the glue that holds a team’s cohesion under pressure.
Lead from the relationship building domain — hold the team together
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