Your role as a leader is to get work done through others. You can’t do it all yourself, as we discovered in the yin and yang of task and relationship. That means though that you do need to hold them accountable for results. I’ve been coaching one senior legal leader who wanted to figure this
Tag: leadership development
How do you build a coaching culture over time?
In the last blog of my “When to Build a Coaching Culture Series”, I discuss how do you build a coaching culture over time? We’ve said that we are starting small in building a coaching culture. One starfish at a time. But over time, as you expand this to more triads of leaders, there will
The leader experience and derailers
When a leader’s experience is on an upward trajectory, working through the leadership pipeline, it can be tempting to become blase about that progress. So often though, leaders derail. The Center for Creative Leadership has studied what derails leaders and found five derailers get in the way of their continued success. These derailers are all things
Hopeless returns on investment from leadership development
I’ve long said that “training” events where big names and gurus talk to 200 leaders at a time about leadership are a waste of time and money. I put training in quotes, because these are really presentations, not training, and while there may be a call to action at the end of them, they generally don’t
