How it Works
The world is awash with advice for leaders.
“Do this! Do that! Don’t do this. Don’t do that!”
The world is awash with advice for leaders.
“Do this! Do that! Don’t do this. Don’t do that!”
But so much of that advice, literature and training is generic at best, or at worst, conflicting. Be firm, but not too firm. Be clear about expectations, but don’t push people too hard. Deliver performance and results, but don’t you dare hurt anyone’s feelings or they’ll go crying and complaining to HR.
Additionally, most of what passes as “good advice” treats symptoms, not root causes. It addresses only the surface level issues, not what’s driving the problems in the first place.
So, that’s my approach in a nutshell: we get at root causes.
Specifically, systems, power, self-sabotage and self-deception.

Like most people, you may only be used to expressing power in one kind of way. But there are actually five different kinds of power. Power is much more situational, relational and dynamic. Understand what power really is, and what types of power to yield when, to get the results you want to have.
Level-up your
power game

self-sabotage
Understand how you self-sabotage

Precisely because your strengths are second nature to you, coming easily and naturally, they become your default and you don’t even recognize when you are over-using them. When you overuse your strengths, they become your saboteurs, getting you the very opposite of what you want. Become more nuanced in the use of your strengths, and cultivate your less utilized ones.
Accept that you have
blind spots
Accept that you have blind spots

If you learn, integrate and apply
these four principles:
If you learn, integrate and apply these four principles:
- systems and situations drive behavior far more than personality
- power is situational, relational and dynamic
- the overuse of our strengths sabotages us
- everyone has blind spots
If this sounds intriguing, let’s get you started with a more nuanced understanding power.
If this sounds intriguing to you, let’s get you started with a more nuanced understanding power.
Want to understand more about what coaching is & how it works?
Want to understand more about what coaching is & how it works?