Power
While positional power gives you the license to act, it’s your unique personal power that makes you effective. While power is often described in terms of either/or—you either have it or you don’t—your power is actually a complex system of different abilities, traits, and characteristics related to personality, life experiences, social status, and position.
Each of us has a Powerprint, an intricate and completely individual mix of life experiences, traits, and abilities that enable us to influence others and impact the world around us:
- Mind your Powers: Which powers (aka strengths) do you rely on most? Which do you forget to acknowledge? Which powers have yet to be developed?
- Mind your Triggers: Which situations upset you? Which situations do have a solid handle? What practices do you rely on to keep you focused and centred?
- Mind the Gap: Make it a habit to self-examine from the outside in. Imagine others see you as having more power than you feel. How might that help you use your power better?
Influence
The higher up you are, the more dependent you are on team members for information, and you’re at greater risk that you won’t get the information, or if you do, it’s somehow biased or incomplete.
Our advanced leadership development programs help optimize a leadership portfolio by measuring how effectively titled leaders use power—personal and positional—to achieve results, empower the people around them, and influence others up, down, across, and outside the organization.
Cultivating Leaders with G.R.I.T.
It’s tough to overcome negative self-talk, when our inner critic runs unchecked. Cultivating Leaders with G.R.I.T. is a structured program to raise awareness of your inner and outer resilience.
You’ll navigate uncertainty and opportunity with poise, confidence, and clarity.
- Unfold a change challenge
- Uncover underlying assumptions and limiting beliefs
- Reveal effective mindsets, behaviours and attitudes
- Bridge the gap between impact and perception
Coaching works best when there’s a:
- There’s a willingness and readiness to learn and grow
- There’s an important gap between where you/your team are now and where you/your team wants to be
- Commitment to do the work needed to explore blind spots, discomfort and challenges that stand in our way
Successful coaching clients know the value of sharing ideas with someone who understands them and their wants and needs. Talking about options with a coach who listens objectively and confidentially is often enough to have choices all become very clear.
- You take yourself and what you want more seriously.
- You take more effective and focused action immediately.
- You start noticing and asserting against barriers that get in your way.
- You set personal and professional goals that are clear and meet your needs.
- You communicate what you need and want from others in a more responsive way.
- You create momentum to achieve more and develop more powerful leadership skills.
- Confidentiality & Security: Hold conversations private. There are no secrets. Abide by ICF Ethics.
- Accountability: Achieve specific ‘fieldwork’ towards reaching goals, desires, dreams.
- Honesty & Trust: Raise self-awareness of strengths: where hold back, give up, deny or rationalize. Trust and belief in the client and the coaching relationship.
- Co-creation: Live a life of increased clarity, joy. Reduced excess stress, pressures.
- Championing: Deepen learning, forward action and acknowledge wins, learnings, accomplishments.
- Supporting: Set goals & move forward towards fulfillment, work – life balance and self-management.
