Your coaching style
Coaching should be your primary tool in leading. If your coaching sessions seem more like you’re the therapist and your team member the patient, you’re doing it wrong.
Your team members should pay attention to how it will be different in the future.
MORE IDEAS FROM THE ARTICLE
Bad leaders take credit for the good things and pin any blame for bad things to others.
Good leaders let the credit go to the team and team members. They only call attention to themselves when they take responsibility for a problem.
Your task is to help your team and team members do good work. You should understand that the mission is important, not you.
As a leader, you’re just there to make things work better.
RELATED IDEAS
- Self-Awareness: be aware of your trengths, weaknesses, and values and displaying them to your team.
- Relational Transparency: remain genuine, straightforward, and honest with your team. Display the behavior you hope to see in your employees.
- Balanced Processing: stick to your values when making decisions, but remain open to discussions and alternatve options.
- Doing the right thing: focus on doing the right thing for the long-term success of the business, not yours.
- Artistic sense and good taste
- Conflict resolution instincts
- Creativity in the face of challenges
- Critical thinking instead of mere compliance
- Dealing with difficult people
- Diplomacy in difficult situations
- Empathy for customers, co-workers and vendors
- Intercultural competence
- Mentoring
- Social skills
- Supervising with confidence