Enduring Leadership Wisdom For Those Who Choose To Lead
Leadership is about personal choice. First, we must choose to lead. Next others must choose to follow. Building the skills and competencies required to be a great leader is also about choice. We must choose to invest our time and energy. We must choose to challenge our competence and awareness. What will it take to become a great leader?
Becoming a great leader requires answering these and many more questions. Leadership is like any other discipline. It requires learning lessons from a variety of sources – from enduring wisdom to the latest theories.
If You Will Lead philosophy recognizes and embraces the choices and commitment inherent in true leadership. Our leadership framework, “The If 16”, is based on sixteen essential leadership attributes. The attributes are easy to understand, but they require dedication and practice to master. Our approach to leadership development embraces the challenge, and we have the skills to guide you on your journey.
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Leadership Development to enable organizations and individuals to achieve their leadership potential
Executive coaching is a proven, confidential, one-on-one personalized development process facilitated by a professional coach to enhance a leader’s success at achieving his/her professional and leadership goals. Coaching enables committed leaders to build and embed essential leadership capabilities. Coaching helps leaders discover their potential and deliver the results consistent with that potential. Executive coaching is about exploration and awareness, and it is built on a foundation of trust and teamwork.
How Coaching Works:
Identifying Goals: The client, with the coach’s assistance, identifies the key areas that are vital to his/her effectiveness, future performance, and desired results.
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Each of the sixteen couplets from Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem If- describes an essential leadership attribute. These form a comprehensive leadership structure, The If 16 Leadership Framework. While each of the attributes is unique and essential, some may seem similar or even redundant. Many of the attributes share characteristics and manifest themselves in related behaviors; they are interconnected and interdependent. I recommend that you read this book with an eye towards seeing the distinctions associated with each attribute while recognizing the synergies among the attributes.
The If 16 Leadership Attributes help us answer four questions that define each of us as leaders:
The If 16 Leadership Framework is organized into four domains based on these questions. Each domain includes four of The If 16 Leadership Attributes. All of the attributes can and will help us address more than one of the four questions. The order of the domains is important. We start with self-awareness because before we can lead others we must first know ourselves. That leads to awareness of what we want. Only then can we begin to contemplate attracting others or earning their trust.
KNOW WHO YOU ARE
KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
ATTRACT OTHERS
EARN AND RETAIN TRUST
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Group Coaching enables your organization to extend the reach of coaching to a larger segment of high potential leaders. The effectiveness of group coaching comes from the combination of individual executive coaching and peer-to-peer learning and support, making group coaching a more efficient solution than traditional one-one-one executive coaching.
Our group coaching engagements target groups of 8-16 leaders for periods of six to twelve months.
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What Are Your Leadership Strengths? Do you panic in a crisis or are you calm under pressure? Do you know your core beliefs and values? Do you lead with a compelling vision? How well do you bounce back from setbacks? Are you bold and courageous? Are you inspiring? Do you know what is most important to your personal leadership development? What about that of your organization? Have you considered the leadership culture that you have created? How can you assess its relative strengths and weakness?
We have built our leadership practice around “The If 16” Leadership Attributes. These attributes form the foundation for leadership excellence. Our assessment instruments enable you to target your development efforts so you can focus on building the attributes that matter most to you and those you lead.
Leadership coaching is built on a belief that clients know the answers to the challenges that they face. A coach’s job is to ask questions that enable the client to begin to see and understand the challenges and to help the client find answers. Our Leadership Self-Assessment works the same way. We provide a short questionnaire that asks you to rate certain behaviors. Through critical self-awareness, your behaviors will begin to reveal your relative strengths and opportunities. This assessment then forms the basis for a coaching plan or consulting engagement. For a limited time, you can complete the Individual ” If 16″ Leadership Assessment free of charge. Learn about your greatest leadership strength and your biggest leadership challenge. A full leadership assessment is available for purchase.
How does your assessment of your organization’s leadership culture differ from that of your team members? Our assessments often vary depending on our perspective. Our Leadership Culture Assessment gives you the ability to check your alignment. How consistently is the culture you want becoming reality at every level in your organization? This instrument will help you identify where breakdowns are occurring. It enables you to understand better how to strengthen and improve your culture of leadership. The “If 16” Leadership Culture Assessment tool is also available to allow you to gauge the leadership culture that you and your team have created.
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