Leadership Coaching...
Does any of this sound familiar to you?
- Do you find yourself trying to control things through micro-management and by disempowering others, perhaps telling yourself it’s quicker if you do it yourself?
- Are you regularly ‘in the weeds’ of someone else’s detail instead of focussing on the bigger picture, longer-term strategies and vision for your division or organisation?
- Are you able to take time to build strong collaborative relationships with colleagues, including mentoring and coaching of your wider team?
- Do you take the time to read the room, to patiently listen and learn from others, to remain curious and invite all voices to be heard, including those who dissent, or, in the interests of time, do you direct, tell and run?
- Are you courageously authentic, speaking up against the grain when needed, or do you remain silent, safe and complying to ‘keep the peace’ or stay in favour of those more senior?
- Do you have genuine concern for your organisation’s wider community? Do you care if they are overloaded, have a good work-life balance, are working at a manageable pace in order to deliver high quality work, or are you cracking the whip and ignoring the impact of vast amounts of overtime being worked on a consistent basis to keep up with demand?
- Are you over-promising to those who shout the loudest, or under-delivering against key performance targets, with no clear way to break the pattern?
- Are you working long hours, on a regular basis, just to keep up, exacerbating the overwhelm and risking burnout, and perhaps expecting others to do the same?
- Or, do you lose control and shout, ridicule others in your frustration, or use sarcasm to put others ‘in their place’ when they challenge your thinking?
If you see yourself in any of these questions, it’s time to pause. Because it could be that your reactive tendencies are in control of your leadership and reducing your effectiveness and potential as a leader.
Or, it could be that you don’t recognise yourself in any of these questions. From your perspective, you’re a strong creative leader, colleagues like and respect you, and seem to happily follow you. But how do you really know? And does that mean there’s no room for improvement? No opportunity for personal growth? No untapped potential?
Remember, if you don’t choose change, you’re choosing what you have.
Working with me…
If you’re curious about the strength of your leadership effectiveness in your current context, or you’re looking to invest in the development of your leadership team, please get in touch via the Let’s Get Started page.
With the support of the Leadership Circle Profile™ 360° Assessment and through my Leadership Development and Coaching Programme (find out more and download the brochure here), I can work with your leaders to:
- Understand how leaders from their past have influenced them, their internal narratives, and helped shape their own leadership style today
- Connect their patterns of action with their habits of thought, and internal assumptions that drive their behaviour to create new awareness of how their inner thoughts translate into a productive or unproductive style of leadership
- Shine a light on their reactive tendencies to seek out where the gifts may lie so that these can be leveraged as key opportunities for development and to creatively enhance their leadership
- Bring issues to the surface quickly and easily through the integrated, graphical information provided in the assessment report, creating insight and a foundation on which transformational change can occur and untapped potential can be unleashed.
The Leadership Circle Profile™ is a market leading breakthrough in the field of 360° assessments, and measures 18 well-researched creative competencies that positively contribute to a leader’s effectiveness, and 11 reactive tendencies that are self-limiting and reflect inner beliefs and assumptions that limit effectiveness and suppress potential.
Creative Competencies...
are well-researched competencies that measure how you achieve what you achieve, how wide your organisational focus is, how you support, empower and develop others, how you invest in your own development, lead with vision, and act with courage, authenticity and integrity.
Reactive Tendencies...
are leadership styles that emphasise control over building collaborative relationships and alignment, caution over risk-taking and creating bold results, and aggressive control over empowerment and selfless leadership.
Leadership Circle Profile™
Take the first step…
If, as a first step on your journey, you are curious to know more about coaching and how I can help, please contact me via the Get In Touch page for a free, no obligations and confidential conversation to explore the possibilities.
I would love to hear from you.
