Coaching practices for Strengths Based Leadership in a New Job

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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 already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places
• I just took over a brand-new team and everyone’s being polite and looking to me for everything
• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• I’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up

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. 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
4. Forming: provide clarity before connection
   In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
5. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Directing — high direction for the eager novice
   With someone new and keen but unskilled, give clear, specific instruction and tight structure.
   Situational Leadership, Made Practical
10. Assess readiness task by task, not person by person
    Rate competence and commitment for the specific task in front of them, not the person overall.
    Situational Leadership, Made Practical

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