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How would you answer this question “How often/frequently do you ask your direct reports on how your actions affect their performance?” Interesting question, right? Maybe a bit scary as well. Kouzes and Posner in the Leadership Challenge pose this question, “how can you know that you’re doing what you say if you never ask for feedback about your behaviour?” (pg. 82). Asking for others perspective, through their lens of how you are leading gives you an opportunity to grow as a leader. Watch this week’s Vlog for more on this provocative idea.

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

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Building off last week’s Vlog post where I spoke about as leaders, we are being watched by our direct reports on the standards we set, and how we also need to be demonstrating these same standards. What happens if we let some “off the hook” but others must be accountable to those standards? This week I talk about the impact this can have on your team as I cover the second behaviour in Kouzes and Posner’s work, The Leadership Challenge.

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?”

This week I begin a series of vlog posts on my interpretation and experiences on the work of Kouzes and Posner, specifically The Leadership Challenge (Wiley). I start this week by outlining how I approach my coaching process by engaging, not only the person I am going to be coaching (the coachee), but also those around them, their managers/supervisors, and their direct reports. Part of this process of engagement is to conduct either a 360-degree on-line assessment or one-on-one personal interviews. If the client wants to do the on-line assessment and there are enough people to participate, I will opt to use the LPI360 that is based on and comes from The Leadership Challenge… I invite you to watch the video to learn more about this process and how I integrate the work of Kouzes & Posner.