Elevate Your Leadership: A Personal Guide to Self-Coaching Excellence
You are my hero, I can not stand as you are suffering. Though I could identify that you are pretending to be satisfied and doing an impressive job! But you cannot cover it for long.
Tough time will wipe out mediocre individuals and retain the finest from the group, which is the property of nature…
Are you ready with your leadership role and deal with the challenges the world is thrust upon you?
- My heroes pass through numerous challenges the client is throwing at his job.
- My heroes pass through the challenges technology is thrusting at his job.
- My heroes are stuck in the situation and worry of obsolescence is commanding him.
- My heroes were operating the show for the last few years someway, but with new COVID crises, bringing out the substantial output from everyone.
It is no more satisfactory to be Ok, we have to demonstrate the Awesome output from all of us in this demanding time.
My entrepreneurial friends are only seeking the finest at this crisis time, I can not deprive them by recommending a few heroes who are not up to the level.
I discussed with one of my heroes, what can be accomplished?
What did I recommend my hero to accomplish?
My Hero was knowledgeable and known in his organization, as a result of that he got upgraded to a leadership & management position.
In the journey to deal with challenges and numerous people management issues popped up which Hero is not fit to deal with.
There are many grievances that were growing to deal with the assignment as Hero was not ready to deal with pressure other challenges.
The senior leaders called my hero to figure out what could be the matter.
My hero knows everything as he is intelligent but could not be competent to deal with the prevailing situation as a Leader.
What could be the reason?
My Hero has been asked to fulfill the below actions to be undertaken in the leadership position.
After examining all these, he acknowledges this is viable and he has worked such scenarios much time in his one decade of his experience
What are those challenging tasks, top 10 expectations?
- Leaders should have the capability to establish rapport and credibility with external clients and their companions across the company. — My Hero is not adequate to fulfill this
- Need to establish the competence to partner with senior leadership, and lead teams smoothly. — My Hero is not competent to fulfill this
- Articulate and competent to communicate with employees at all levels across the organization. — My Hero is not competent to fulfill this
- Skilled in the collaborative management environment — — My Hero is not adequate to fulfill this
- Experience with establishing deep relationships with a divergent set of clients and stakeholders from across the business. — — My Hero is not competent to fulfill this
- Establishing and cultivating collaborative, dynamic relationships with international counterparts. — My Hero is not apt to fulfill this.
- Act as a leading change agent in delivering and embracing digital strategies. — My Hero is not competent to fulfill this
- Influences as an individual leader across the corporation and advocates a learning culture. — My Hero is not competent to fulfill this
- Ability to function under pressure and deal with challenging conditions in a rapid-paced work environment. — My Hero is not competent to fulfill this
- Lead & motivate technical teams, mentor, grow, and relentlessly enable each member of the team to achieve their absolute capacity.- My Hero is not competent to fulfill this.
But my hero in this unique leadership positioned miserable stumbling and not prepared to steer through the current challenges.
Who to blame? My hero was wondering…
My hero has to train himself on this path, all these skills demand an efficient transformation of self and understanding about dealing with others.
How do we establish such competence?
- Training plays some development,
- Role-play enhance some development,
- Experiment and learn from failure play some portion,
- Books and discussion play some portion
- Working with a mentor/Teacher will strengthen some portion
and many more steps for a long time need to perform. No shortcuts.
My hero needs to consciously, deliberately practice to build a level of knowledge development with 10,000 hrs. program in mind.
My hero needs to start a dedicated deep transformation curriculum of self-development for the upcoming 5–10 years.
And this journey goes on.
This crisis time will eliminate mediocracy and bring out meritocracy.
Self-coaching insight to develop into a stronger leader.
Starting with these eight questions about the Self Transformation Journey
- Do you measure your Self Evolution Journey and delighted with the development made so far?
- Do you measure your Learning ability expansion and pleasant with the improvement made so far?
- Do you measure your Mental strength expansion and pleasant with the improvement made so far?
- Do you measure the expansion of your Individuality and thrilled with the growth made so far?
- Do you measure your Coaching capability and thrilled with the improvement made so far?
- Do you measure your Leadership capability and pleasant with the improvement made so far?
- Do you measure your Captivating capability and content with the development made so far?
- Do you measure your Change enablement capability and delighted with the development made so far?
If most of these answer is Yes, you are developing into an awesome Leader, if you have answered No, any of these questions, you are expected to have some work to do.
8 dysfunctions
Dysfunction #1 : INEPT AT SELF EVOLUTION
Dysfunction #2 : INEPT AT LEARNING ABILITY
Dysfunction #3 : INEPT AT MENTAL STRENGTH
Dysfunction #4 : INEPT AT INDIVIDUALITY
Dysfunction #5 : INEPT AT COACHING
Dysfunction #6 : INEPT AS A CHANGE AGENT
Dysfunction #7 : INEPT AS A LEADER
Dysfunction #8 : INEPT AT CAPTIVATING
Look at the Job description of what the organization asks?
You will be capable to identify the trace of these 8 areas works to be performed to resolve the Personal Leadership Transformation gaps.
I randomly chose a few Leadership roles job description. You will be able to Map 8 areas spread in these responsibilities…
- A leader with proven ability to navigate through an organization to “get things done”, set strategic direction, and define priorities. Effective in managing/influencing remote/virtual teams.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, in a practical way, to balance between addressing the root cause and introducing changes in fast order.
- Excited about the change and has a successful track record in driving change in a complex environment. Data-driven and oriented, with the ability to focus on key elements that drive difference.
- The leader who embraces new ways of working and technology. Ability to identify and drive solutions to improve the end customer experience.
- Ability to drive Change Management within all levels of the Organization, building buy-in through listening and responding to potential concerns.
- A change agent and champion who will lead and drive change
- Invested in the development of a future state that will raise the bar on the service experience delivered to our end customers
- Collaborates and influences cross-functionally both internal and external stakeholders, including senior executives, to drive change.
- Collaborate effectively with engineering, design, and delivery teams
- Build bridges with and amongst teams to enable team’s success
- Deliver tasks with tight deadlines with the offering team
- Understanding of technology principles and services including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms, and consumer-facing technology.
- Lead individuals, teams, or multiple groups and play an active role in analyzing project goals, creating a plan to achieve those goals, and then driving the AWS team members, customer stakeholders/SMEs, and potentially other third parties to achieve those goals while understanding the client environment and any limitations to execution.
- Provide leadership and mentoring to team members on behaviors, processes, and techniques required to successfully deliver value to the Organizations.
- Manage the personnel actions for assigned staff which includes but is not limited to, approving vacation, coaching, and counseling, conducting ongoing check-ins, hiring new employees, making salary or merit increase recommendations, training, and evaluating employees.
- Lead a team of associates who are focused on providing world-class service to our Organization PI clients
- Develop and coach associates to effectively, accurately, and efficiently meet our client’s needs
- Drive culture and associate engagement through coaching, development, and a highly customized and personalized approach to team leadership
- Motivate, inspire, and drive excellence in customer interactions through servicing our clients and supporting customer success through CSS
- Facilitate/contribute to at least one community of practice that sets standards, provides shared knowledge opportunities and oversees improvements to those specific areas of IT.
- Provide coaching and feedback to associates regarding performance, customer relationship building, and career development.
There are many more, but just to reflect why these 8 areas are crucial in our Personal Leadership and self-coaching journey, I have highlighted very few.
In my book, We can Lead — A Guidebook of Personal Leadership and Self Coaching, I have proposed a model to rectified all the 8 Dysfunctions.
In my leadership development book, I have discussed a few steps which can be helpful as a leader.
In this book, We Can Lead — The Guidebook of Personal Leadership and Self Coaching, I imagined how can we grow into a better leader by deliberately change some of our ways of thinking.
First, we have to polish our own self and scale it up.
Once we are confident that we are perfect enough. We start serving others.
Helping others is a tremendous skill to be cultivated. It may not show naturally.
Many factors influence to become a better Leader.
In this book, I have highlighted some factors that support us to deal with others better.
Some of the sample chapters from this book.
Fig from the book: Leadership Development Capsule!
This is a continuous improvement proceeding, I am sure, I myself will pick up different wisdom on the way.
As on today, you will get in this book, which has helped me to become better whatever I am today.
This book has 588 pages.
This book has 10 chapters.
This book has 100+ subtopics discussed.
There are 10 case studies to visualize and role play.
There are many concept thoughts, 200 + quotes for our reference to inspire us on a daily basis.
I imagine this could be the bible for all of us to keep referring again and again as a Leader.
This book e-book version will cost 150 INR.
This book could be used by anyone.
It was an attempt from my side to make this book a one-stop-shop for all individuals to become better Leaders.
It will prepare individuals to take action to transform themselves from whatever state they are in to become a better leader.
I urge all of you to look, taste, Validate before invest your more energy…..
Free First 200 Pages from this book.
