Coaching practices for Succession Leadership Development
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Part of me wants to keep my best people in roles that serve me and to pick a successor who won’t outshine me
- My team only ever gets the leftover scraps from me, and it shows
- Everything still flows through me
- My boss took a real chance on me and advocated for me, and I just took it and moved on without ever closing the loop
- There are people on my team I’ve quietly written off
Practices that may help
- Develop successors who will surpass you
Invest in your successor’s success as a deliberate act of institutional ambition.
Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders - Use delegation as a development tool
Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation - 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 - Reciprocate when your leader invests in you
When a leader gives you trust, opportunity, or advocacy, close the loop with visible follow-through.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Deliberately expand your inner circle
Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Put the growth of others first
Start from "how do I help this person succeed?" rather than "how do they help me succeed?"
Servant Leadership, Made Practical - Establish transactional reliability before adding transformational layers
Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
Transformational 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 - Treat each person as an individual with distinct needs and aspirations
Know what each team member needs to grow and provide support tailored to them.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Developing Leaders
Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
- Leader Development Culture
Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
Deliberately expand your inner circle
- Leadership Development
Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
- Dyadic Leadership Relationship
Acknowledge that you develop different relationships with different people — and ensure the differences are earned, not arbitrary.
Manage LMX differentiation fairly as a leader
- Individual To Leader Transition
When early enthusiasm dips but skill is still forming, combine clear guidance with active encouragement.
Coaching — high direction and high support for the disillusioned learner
- Leader As Developer
Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
Use delegation as a development tool
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