Career Coaching: Leadership
Career Coaching: Leadership — What does “LEADERSHIP” mean to you?
McKinsey & Co. gave this definition:
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“The primary purpose of leadership is to enable a group of people to work together effectively toward a shared goal that they could not accomplish on their own.”.
And this is the “WHY” of leadership. It’s a nice, simple one. It’s not about being the most profitable business; it’s about maximising the potential, whatever potential is needed, of a team of people. — Profitability comes as a result of that maximisation.
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However, it is not the “HOW” of Leadership:
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From my decades in business, I have come to believe that leadership is personal. Each of us leads in our own unique way.
Leadership can be situational or transactional; it can be servant leadership or laissez-faire, autocratic or democratic, transformational or tribal … and the list goes on …
And, whichever ‘style’ you choose, there’s the influence of the culture of the business you’re operating within, as well as the layer of your own individual personality. Added to this, there are the contexts of your industry sector, your workforce and your nation…
And so you can see there are a LOT of choices to make — Or, are there?
Career Coaching: Leadership
As a Clinical Supervisor, I bring an understanding of “humans in context” second to none. Two decades of experience of working with this meta perspective, and I am able to see clearly what’s emerging.
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And that’s my point: Yes, we have a choice about our style of leadership; however, a lot of the contextual information is already encoded. We already absorbed most of the layers we bring to leadership, unconsciously, decades previously.
So, my question would be “what would it be like to raise those layers into conscious awareness so that you CAN choose, conciously?”
Instead of being driven, unknowingly, from the inside, what would it be like to really see and to be able to sometimes choose differently?
Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. Each leader has to be, with all this complexity, by default, entirely unique.
So, if there are as many flavours of leadership as there are leaders, then what kind of leader do you want to be? Let’s Explore …
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