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Challenge, Enable Others to Act. The Practice has two Commitments associated with it, “foster collaboration by building trust and facilitating relationships” and, “strengthen others by increasing self-determination and developing competence”.  And as we have been doing over the past several weeks, I look at the first behaviour in this practice which is, “develops cooperative relationships among people he/she works with”.

What is your definition of leadership? I am sure that we would get a lot of different responses to that question – if fact I invite you to write yours at the bottom of this post. For me leadership is like the proverb of fishing: “if you give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” (Lao Tsu). It’s about giving others the opportunity to grow. This week’s video blog post is my thinking on the behaviour above.

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Most of us I will assume set goals and make plans, but how do we do when it comes to checking where we are in those plans, goals? Keeping milestones? Tracking how we are doing?

Here is another layer. As a leader, how are you at developing your people to be effective in their planning and organizing? Leading them to be as effective as they can be?

In this week’s Vlog I explore these questions and give some thoughts on how to go about this using the fifth behaviour of Challenging the Process from The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes & Posner)

John K Whitehead & Associates coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

You can read my blog at https://johnkwhitehead.ca

If you have enjoyed reading these posts, please Follow Me – and if you sign up for my Blog I will send you a copy of my eBook, “What Are These Things Called Soft Skills?”

Kouzes and Posner ask the question, “What can you learn when things don’t go as expected?” as their 4^th behaviour in the practice of Challenging the Process. I want to shift that a little and ask, what can you learn when things go as expected? More of a positive right? We are really good at debriefing and deconstructing things when they go wrong, and rightly so, so that we can hopefully not do whatever that was again. But we often skirt over wins, – yea!! we did it! and move on. But what have we learned when we win or are successful… what worked?

One of the questions I ask in my coaching when a leader is hitting a roadblock is “have you ever run into this before and what happened?” If it was successful, how was it solved? Many times, the leader has run into this situation, issue before and successfully traversed the challenge. So lets not forget about the wins, sometimes the small wins and what we can learn from them.

John K Whitehead & Associates coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

You can read my blog at https://johnkwhitehead.ca

If you have enjoyed reading these posts, please Follow Me – and if you sign up for my Blog I will send you a copy of my eBook, “What Are These Things Called Soft Skills?”