Adams and Anderson in their book Mastering Leadership explain that increasing Volatility, Uncertainty, Competition, Ambiguity and Disruption (VUCAD) and multiple expectations of stakeholders creates strong and consistent challenge for Leaders. It is no wonder that Leaders struggle to have the impact they intend.
For many leaders much of their default behaviours correspond to reacting to others expectations of them. This leads to behaviours that may be influenced by fears such as ‘not being liked’ or ‘fear of failure’. In others these reactive behaviours can be interpreted as becoming superior or emotionally removed from others.
It is not enough that Leaders take responsibility for their own development – there needs to be ongoing commitment to develop the entire leadership team to be able to tap into the collective wisdom and intelligence to be able to find innovative solutions to the inevitable and evolving business challenges.
By working on our development as individuals and sharing the leadership development journey with our peers we will be moving towards working together from our strengths and take on a more creative approach. Interestingly this collective creativity leads to us feeling a greater sense of independence and self-authoring.
Judith E Glaser’s Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) framework is a model that can be very useful in moving leadership teams into partnering and into a creative leadership approach. It provides resources enabling leaders and teams to better understand each other and discover mutual success.
C-IQ provides tools to help individual leaders be less reactive to the expectations of those around them ensuring that the leadership group are better positioned to deliver on the leadership promise and successfully deliver business results with the intended high leadership impact.
As a leadership coach I believe in helping leadership teams to:
- Have a framework and rules for engagement to ensure robust dialogue and transformative conversation
- Find solutions and adapt to significant business challenge and simultaneously improve relationships
- Increase team and individual leader confidence in decision-making to become less reactive and more creative
- Find increased satisfaction as a group with a growing sense of independence and self-authoring despite working closer together
- Recognise equality of participation
- Better understand what mutual success looks like and how to contract for it
- Find greater listening ability to make deeper connection and enable co-creation of solutions
- Tackle fear of the unknown
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