10 Practices for the Leader as Coach
Leaders who love telling people what to do can’t coach.
The use of authority creates conformity. The leader as coach ignites vitality.
Here are 10 essential qualities of the leader as coach.
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Chew the Gristle: Taking Responsibility Like a Leader
You lose it when you don’t own it. When you don’t own your marriage, it dies. When you don’t take responsibility for your team, it founders.
Taking responsibility is vitality.
It’s self-centered to take failure personally. “See how I’m struggling.”
5 Things Leaders Say
The first step to becoming a leader is in the heart. You learn to love people.
A person who loves people turns their focus outward.
The second step to leadership is practicing things leaders say.
Words without heart are meaningless irritants.
Stop Working For – Give Yourself To
Thoreau wrote, “The cost of a thing is the amount … of life which is required to be exchanged for it.
When you give yourself “for” something you work for gratification.
When you give yourself “to” something you lead with purpose.
Two things leaders give themselves to….
Pour Energy into Energy
Pockets of energy are your future. Some areas of work are back holes. You pour energy in but get nothing back.
Pour energy into energy.
When fire flares up pour gas on it. You can’t pull back and move forward at the same time.
Beyond the Wilderness: 4 Strategies When Life is Uphill
Moses spent 40 years in the desert. Nelson Mandel spent 27 years in prison. In the 1930, Winston Churchill was marginalized because he warned England about Hitler.
The wilderness is an inner experience, not a place.
4 strategies when life feels uphill.