What if the strengths that landed you a new leadership role ultimately become a hindrance? Today I am sharing insight from a coaching session where a 1:1 client needed to work on some blind spots to move forwards.
In this episode I am talking about a particular coaching session, with an emerging leader within a professional services firm. They had received some feedback in a 360 assessment that revealed a number of key blind spots and realised these needed urgent attention for risk of further alienating the team.
Interestingly, often the very strengths that helped get someone to a new position of leadership can actually become a liability.
For example, behaviours that previously may have been labelled as being 'highly detailed' may now be perceived as 'micro-managing'. This shift in perception is important to identify - and fix.
So how can coaching help a client like this build awareness of the gap and work honestly and successfully through making some attitudinal or behavioural shifts to help build engagement with their team?
I'm sharing some insights directly from this coaching session today.
Rebecca, on recognising your blind spots:
"What got you here won't necessarily get you there. Sometimes the very strengths that helped get someone to a new position of leadership can actually become a liability. High standards can become micro-management; drive can become impatience; knowledge can become superiority. These strengths, pushed to the extreme, can result in a leader alienating their team and creating deep disengagement”
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Rebecca Allen’s coaching clients often refer to her as ‘warm’, ‘practical’ and ‘strategic’. She is an executive level, evidence-based leadership coach and facilitator with 14 years’ experience, coaching across a wide range of sectors including finance, professional services and energy. Her specialisms are in preparing emerging leaders for their next roles and leading through change. She combines strengths-based coaching with cognitive behavioural techniques to help her clients build self-awareness, leadership identity and to step up successfully to prepare for the next level of leadership. Connect with Rebecca today
