Coaching practices for The Leader as Coach a New Management Paradigm After a Setback
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- I keep solving the same person’s problems over and over, slightly different each time
- My people route every little decision up to me, even ones squarely in their own authority
- My team lives in pure execution mode, head down, one fire after another, and so do our meetings
- We had a reorg — lost a key person, changed direction — and suddenly the team that used to hum is fighting and second-guessing again, and I’m treating it like they broke instead of seeing the ground shifted under them.
- I raised the hard truth nobody wanted to hear and now the whole pushback has turned on me
Practices that may help
- The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
Leading as a coach means creating space for people to think and grow rather than solving every problem for them. The approach draws on coaching methodology — asking over telling, listening before advising — and is supported by research on autonomy, self-efficacy, and learning. The shift is behaviorally demanding because telling feels faster and more capable, even when it systematically reduces the people around you. - Coach the person, not just the problem
The most important thing a manager can work on is the person’s capacity to handle future problems, not just today’s.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Break the advice-dependency loop
When people come to you for every decision, it signals advice-giving is making them less capable, not more.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Create thinking space rather than filling every meeting with content
The most valuable thing a coaching manager provides is protected time and space for reflection — which most teams never get.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Recognize and recover from stage regression
A team that was Performing can drop back to Storming — and the recovery move is different from the original ascent.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Hold steady when the system pushes back
Expect displacement, scapegoating, and pressure to return to the old equilibrium — and stay the course.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Acknowledge what you heard before advancing to advice
A solution offered before the speaker feels heard is usually rejected, even when it is correct.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Apply the Stockdale Paradox to teams and leadership
As a leader or team member under pressure, model the simultaneous holding of faith and brutal facts — it is contagious in both directions.
The Stockdale Paradox, 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 - Look out the window for credit, in the mirror for blame
When things go well, credit others; when things go wrong, look at yourself first.
Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
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