Make your agile teams more effective by coaching their leaders
Agile coaching isn’t just for teams. Leaders have just as much, if not more, influence on creating a culture to beat the competition and stay relevant in today’s fast-paced market. Agile leadership applies to leaders at all levels to inspire, motivate, and empower others.
Leadership coaching can help you build resilience, think strategically, motivate your teams, and plan for the future. Develop your teams to identify opportunities for you, and to learn from experimenting. Want your teams to be the engine room that helps you out-perform your competitors? Coach your leaders to have these skills:
Adaptability
Being able to adjust to new conditions. Or, the absence of resistance to change. I think of this as openness to new ways of working and being. It is a personal willingness to have the courage to throw away the plan when needed, and change to current conditions.
Resilience
The capacity to remain flexible in thoughts, behaviours and emotions when under stress. Thanks to Carole Pemberton for the best definition of resilience we have.
Servant leadership
A leadership philosophy and set of practices, defined by Robert Greenleaf, to build better organisations. A servant leader ensures that other people’s highest-priority needs are being served. He said the test of servant leadership is Do those served grow as people? Do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous?
Sense and respond
Sense — acute and accurate awareness of what’s going on in the world and in business, in broad terms. Awareness of the facts. Respond — to make a small adjustment in how we lead or work with others, to move closer to what we want. Working incrementally toward goals or objectives.
‘Sense and respond’ has to do with taking in a wide plane of information about current events and global trends in business and other arenas (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental). By understanding systemic trends (sense), a leader can then work toward incremental change (respond).
Critical thinking
Solving problems through rational processes and evidence-based knowledge. Have you also noticed the increase in media content on ‘respecting the science’ to make critical leadership decisons?
Cross-silo leadership
Leading with the whole organisation in mind. Helping teams see their work though the eyes of customers, business partners, or suppliers.
Growth mindset
The belief that we were not born with all of the skills needed for life and work. We can learn and improve through our own effort. For more on this, see the work of Carol Dweck.
Get in touch to find out how to develop the agile mindset, behaviours, and skills for the future.
