“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Being a role model means more than having others look up to you. A role model is someone who accepts responsibility for getting others to do great things.”  Tiger Woods

Leadership Coaching Strategies

  • What is YOUR Leadership Signature?
  • What Leadership Legacy are YOU creating . . . every day?

Did you know that  . . . 65% of people leave their companies because of management?

Did you know that  . . . compassionate, but firm leadership can turnaround an organization through inspired leadership?

Through a proven, 5-step process, you begin to . . .

  • Develop a unity of purpose in your business team, and develop a vision of the leadership legacy that you will instill in your organization and your business team.
  • Join with other leaders who are identifying their purpose in leadership – a purpose that focuses on what you see as possible through your leadership!
  • Overcome business challenges that all leaders face: 
    1. Maximize resources to meet business objectives.
    2. Maintain a competitive position in the business world.
    3. Create a productive and growth-oriented environment.
    4. Manage excessive costs, low morale or constant turnover.
    5. Instill an innovative environment in which the people grow and lead with their strengths

What are the benefits to YOU?  These touch your financial, marketing, and people development goals . . .

  • Increased company profits while building highly motivated and effective teams.
  • Increased confidence as an effective and influential leader with stronger executive presence.
  • Expanded self-awareness and self-knowledge – the cornerstone of emotionally intelligent leadership.
  • Enhanced sense of ownership by all employees for taking a leadership role in their daily activities.
  • Strengthen leadership communication skills and behaviors that are aligned with business goals of the organization.
  • Enhanced leadership skills for building an engaged and aligned organization.
  • Build on your capacity to effectively lead / influence and maintain a high-performing team.
  • More highly motivated teams that display increased collaborative teamwork.
  • Business team success that is based on building on each person’s strengths and operating by a shared vision.
  • Strengths and unique talents of each team member are maximized and cut across all projects.
  • Team members develop an enthusiasm to make a difference at work, and accountability becomes a personal value. 
  • Increased focus on purpose that promotes more effective innovation.
  • Establishment of a culture in which appreciation is expressed for employee contributions.

5 STEPS TO SET THE STAGE – FOCUS ON YOU!

  • The critical success factor in this process is for YOU to integrate your vision, mission, and purpose into YOUR UNIQUE STYLE.  
STEP 1:  Benchmark Your Leadership Behaviors. One of the first steps in a coaching process is to benchmark your leadership style and behaviors, as you perceive them.
  • What can you do to align your leadership behaviors more closely with proven leadership principles? 
STEP 2:  Envision how you DON’T WANT to operate as a leader. 
  • What are leadership behaviors that you have personally experienced or observed that you DON’T WANT to display as a leader?
STEP 3:  Envision how you DO WANT to operate as a leader – and connect with the pride, sense of fulfillment, and confidence that you experience when you are leading with YOUR UNIQUE STRENGTHS as a leader.  

 Which of these descriptions best fit the leadership style to which YOU aspire? 

A leader who . . .

  • Empowers their team to fulfill their talents and lead with their strengths.
  • Authenticity earns them the respect and trust of their organization, and ultimately creates an environment that fosters creativity and innovation.
  • Helps people to achieve their full potential and achieve goals through a facilitative approach.
  • Takes thoughtfully calculated risks that would positively impact the company’s business and people development goals.

Applaud your successes as you strengthen your leadership, develop confidence, and grow into an outstanding leader through Leadership Coaching Strategies.

STEP 4:  Your Vision Statement

  • Create a vision statement of your ideal leadership style and behaviors that reflect Your Unique Strengths.
  • Describe the values and feelings with which you connect when you operate from this position.

STEP 5:  Create Your Vision For Success

How does your vision, goals, and purpose for this program align with your leadership development plan and business goals? 

Measure your progress and assess your success against the original benchmark to receive valuable feedback about what’s working, what’s not working, and what needs adjustment.

  • Describe your company’s mission, vision, and core values.
  • Review your organization’s business goals, objectives, strengths, opportunities, and business challenges. 
  • Identify your strengths and challenges as a leader that may be improved through your coaching experience. 

What detours take you off track?  Identify these possibilities and create solutions to these challenges before they occur. Then, YOU are in charge!

What OUTCOME can you expect?

Through this journey, you develop a commitment to grow and develop yourself as a stronger leader, dedicated to instilling your leadership legacy in your organization and business team. 

4 Keys to Your Success:

  • Schedule time to revisit your leadership vision.
  • Identify the changes that you want to leave as your leadership legacy.
  • Continue to develop the vision for your leadership legacy.
  • Take ACTION, now!  Your future begins now. 

“Leadership Coaching Strategies” are designed for individuals or business teams, and are often integrated with our “Professional Excellence Strategies” to provide a customized coaching program that fits with YOUR AGENDA!

CALL TODAY:  Schedule your initial, 45-minute, collaborative consultation.

Success Associates created a “Grassroots Leadership Coaching Guide” for a Fortune 500 corporation that is based on the groundbreaking book by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, It’s Your Ship – Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy*.

In It's Your Ship, Abrashoff describes how he transformed the U.S.S. Benfold from a ship with productivity challenges, in spite of cutting-edge technology, to a “model of naval efficiency and a key player in the U.S. Persian Gulf fleet”.  Abrashoff based his success on the philosophy that "leaders are developed, not born". He achieved this result by soliciting and using creative suggestions from his crew, initiating bold communication with leaders in his chain of command, and implementing innovative process improvements that reduced tedious chores that added little value.

* CONTACT Success Associates to discuss corporate licensing arrangement for individual or team coaching, based on permission from Grassroots Leadership, Inc.

 What is the Grassroots Leadership Coaching Guide?  It is a . . .

  • Coaching process that facilitates a self-directed, transformational change in YOU, as a leader.
  • Foundational program for an independent, self-directed coaching program or team coaching program.

Apply the TEN GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES to Transform Your Leadership Behavior!

  1. Lead by Example
  2. Listen Aggressively
  3. Communicate Purpose and Meaning
  4. Create a Climate of Trust
  5. Look for Results, Not Salutes
  6. Take Calculated Risks
  7. Go Beyond Standard Operating Procedures
  8. Build Up Your People - Strengthen Others
  9. Generate Unity 
  10. Cultivate Quality of Life

What will you learn from the Grassroots Leadership Coaching Guide?

  • Take the first step, Take Command.
  • Apply the Ten Grassroots Leadership Principles on which Abrashoff based his transformational leadership model to your own leadership challenges. 
  • Discover top-down change strategy with case studies to exemplify grassroots, transformational approach to leadership.

Case studies outline behaviors that describe inspired leadership, as well as leadership behaviors that can destroy a team’s morale and initiative. 

  • Reinforce valuable lessons from the real life scenarios that are models of grassroots leadership.
  • Define leadership behaviors that model your leadership signature and create your leadership legacy.