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Are We On The Same Track?

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.

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As a leader in the organization, any organization, you are being watched, observed, and almost certainly being mimicked (hopefully in a good way). This week I dig into the 30 behaviours that are associated with Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership from their book The Leadership Challenge. The first behaviour is “sets a personal example of what he/she expects of others”. This is the first behaviour from the practice of “Modeling the Way”, the first of the five practices they state, “make extraordinary things happen in organizations. I invite you watch my vlog and then comment on how this spoke to you? Do you have examples?

 

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?”

Leadership Coaching: How to start the process off right.

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.

Leadership Coaching: How to start the process off right.

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.

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?”

My Reflections on Marshall Goldsmith’s “What Got You Here Won’t get You There”

Over the past almost six months I have recorded a series of vlog posts based on the work of Marshall Goldsmith and his Twenty Habits

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That Hold You Back from the Top which can be found in his amazing book, “What Got You Here Won’t get You There” published in 2007 by Hyperion.   This has been and continues to be a very influential work for me personally and has informed a lot of my thinking on leadership and what it means to be a leader in, not only organizations but in life in general. Below are the links to the vlog posts in the order Marshall presents them in his book plus an epilogue. Again, these are my interpretations, thoughts, and reflections and how they have influenced me and how I work with my clients – enjoy.

1.What is “Winning Too Much” and Why Does It Matter?

2. Adding Too Much Value? When is too much, too much?

3. Passing Judgement: When making assumptions gets you in trouble.

4. Marshall’s 4th Habit That Keeps You from The Top

5. What is “No”, “But”, and “However”…?

6. Danger – Showing People We’re Smarter Than We Are

7. What Is the Impact of Speaking When Angry?

8. Negativity: Being negative and what you can do about it

9. Why “You Can Have That” Matters

10. A Tip on How to Make Sure You Give Recognition

11. Taking Credit When It Is Not Ours to Give

12. If You Are Hearing Excuses, Look at Yourself.

13. Clinging to The Past: Leadership requires moving forward

14. Are you Playing Favorites in the Workplace?

15. Refusing to Express Regret – saying I’m sorry

16. Are You Listening?

17. The Impact of Just Saying “Thank-You.”

18. Punishing the Messenger

19. When the Buck Stops Here

20. Habit #20 – An Excessive Need to Be “Me”

21. The Paradoxical Habit of Goal Obsession

Epilogue: The Twenty Habits Are Not Just for Leaders

I look forward to any and all comments…

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?”