Executive Coaching
Activate your potential with Think Gray!
The “injection myth”
Leadership is not a “thing”.
Forget the myth of leadership as a singular, static entity or something that can be "injected" at an event. Think Gray Coaching helps you embrace the true nature of leadership: a dynamic, ever-evolving dance between experience, response, and attitude.
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The Consequential Aspect: The impact you leave behind, the tangible outcomes and the positive changes you initiate.
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The Experiential Aspect: The lessons learned through the tapestry of life's challenges and triumphs, both successes and failures.
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The Attitudinal Aspect: The unwavering mindset you cultivate, the lens through which you choose to view and approach every situation.
Interpersonal Leadership
WHAT YOU LEAD
Strategic Leadership - clarity of direction, purpose, and mission.
Operational Leadership - clarity of production, preparation, and prevention to deliver results.
HOW YOU LEAD
Explorative Leadership - create safe experiments - embrace discovery that comes with "failure".
Directive Leadership - when needed, be prepared to drive for action, usually to protect or defend.
WHY YOU LEAD
Purpose - why your organization exists, the contribution.
Mission - the "How much of what, by when: So that...:
Because....".
Intrapersonal Leadership
Self Awareness, Acceptance, Assertiveness
Constructive Thinking
Accepting that to generate power with people requires cohesion between affiliation and achievement thinking.
Defensive Awareness
Accepting why defensive thinking is sometimes needed but having the wisdom to maintain empowerment.
Choice Architecture
Choosing what not to do by attending to constraints and boundaries and knowing why it matters.
The focus of Leadership
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Achieve the mission
If we don't have a mission, we don't need leaders. Achieving the mission will require: a defined scope (what we will and will not do); pathways thinking that is grounded in reality; agency thinking that engages and empowers, and visible quality standards. These elements provide the map, then we steer to the objective, while accepting that "no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy".
Look after your people
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Create the conditions that generate energy, efficacy, engagement, and empowerment, remembering that you cannot "inject" any of these, they must be ingested voluntarily. As a leader, you create the conditions that generate power with people.
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Develop New Leaders
Successful leaders understand the significance of operational continuity. It's not just about achieving great results, but also preparing people to take on more challenging leadership roles in the future and cultivating personal responsibility. By fostering personal efficacy as a core competency, you can establish an environment that promotes sustainable growth and success.
