Coaching practices for Team Equity Leadership
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I lead a team and I’ve realized the people I lean on most are the ones who remind me of myself or are just easy to be around
- There are people on my team I’ve quietly written off
- Everyone on my team is quietly playing for their own scoreboard
- I treat my whole team the same way and run the same kind of one-on-one with everyone, and it’s landing flat
- I look around at the people I’ve hired and they all think exactly like me
Practices that may help
- Manage LMX differentiation fairly as a leader
Acknowledge that you develop different relationships with different people — and ensure the differences are earned, not arbitrary.
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 - Align around collective results, not individual status
Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, 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 - The Trust Equation, Made Practical
The Trust Equation (Maister, Green, and Galford) holds that trustworthiness = (credibility + reliability + intimacy) ÷ self-orientation. The model is a practitioner framework rather than a rigorously tested theory, but it usefully names the levers — especially self-orientation, which is the single biggest trust-killer most leaders overlook. - 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 - There are no bad teams, only bad leaders
The same people perform differently under different leadership — so start with the leadership.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical - 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 - Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Team Alignment Practices
Know what each team member needs to grow and provide support tailored to them.
Treat each person as an individual with distinct needs and aspirations
- Developing Leaders In Teams
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
- Team Autonomy Leadership
A Performing team needs air cover and resources, not direction.
Performing: step back and protect the conditions
- Team Composition Leadership
Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
Align around collective results, not individual status
- Team Design Leadership
Actively encourage your team to question old ways and generate new approaches.
Challenge assumptions and invite new thinking
- Authority Levels Leadership
Delegation levels frameworks (most commonly a 5- or 7-level scale) give managers and their reports a shared vocabulary for how much authority is being handed over on any task — from "wait for my instructions" to "decide and act without telling me." The model is practitioner wisdom rather than formally studied, but the underlying principle — that ambiguity about authority is the root of both micromanagement and abdication — has solid organizational support.
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