Integrative Leadership Strategies
leadership INSIGHTS
Employ Your Outer C.E.O to Problem Solve with Others
We’ve previously discussed our inner C.E.O. but we also have an outer C.E.O. that helps us to lead problem solving efforts with others.
Employ Your Inner C.E.O to Problem Solve Best
When I think about the effective problem solvers whom I know, three characteristics bubble to the top as being responsible for why their problem solving is effective.
What is Facilitative Leadership?
Facilitative leadership requires long game thinking and delegation. Make it easier with these tips.
Three Coaching Skills to Use in Your Leadership Starting Today
Consciously adding coaching skills to your management repertoire can enable you to more effectively engage and empower the people you lead. That's because the central premise of coaching is that the person you're coaching has the wherewithal to solve their own problems. Coaching helps bring clarity, organization, conviction and focus to their thinking in order to support progress.
You Could Coach Yourself, But Will You?
One of my early coaches used to say to me that his main goal was to show me how to coach myself. I haven't forgotten this inspiring vision, and it has integrated with my thinking to this day. But even though I have learned how to coach myself, without a coach in front of me, there are many thought patterns that I bail out of instead of doing the hard thinking that would require holding my own feet to the fire.
How to Achieve Personal Mastery
In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge illuminates the key to achieving personal mastery. I think of personal mastery as becoming the best version of ourselves. It doesn't mean that we don't have more to work on (we always do). It does mean that we get to master-level effectiveness in knowing ourselves and knowing how to achieve that which we intend to achieve.
Say It Out Loud
I've been thinking lately about the power that comes from saying something out loud. It's one of the many reasons coaching can make a difference. As I think back in my life, the feelings about phases I was going through stick in my memory because I had voiced them to a friend, colleague, or coach at the time.