Know Your Relationships and Conquer Conflict | MSBCoach Self-Coaching Week 1

Welcome to the Leadership Climb:

A Self Coaching Journey to Leadership Maturity

July Leadership Maturity Theme:

Relationship Management

Leaders adept at Relationship Management work to create and participate in cohesive, high functioning and diverse teams and productively gives feedback and manages conflict with in those teams.

To explore more of our resources on Relationship Management, click here.

Week 1: Assessment

There are a few things you can do to get the most benefit from your self-coaching. We recommend recording your answers to the assessment below in a designated "Leadership Climb Self Coaching" journal or notebook. Your review and reflection on your answers now and in the future will be key to your continued growth.

This is a reflective assessment. The answers provide a qualitative, rather than quantitative, analysis. Feel free to choose one or more of the following areas to investigate over the next 4 weeks.

Relationship Management

To manage their relationships properly, leaders need to further cultivate their emotional intelligence skills, clearly communicate their needs to their team mates, and, most importantly, know how to properly navigate situations that might evolve into conflict.

As you begin to assess your own ability to manage your relationships explore other thought leaders on the subject:

Forbes: Leadership Is A Relational Skill

I have said many times that if you want to know the effectiveness of a leader, then ask those who are led. This is because there is no perfect assessment, no bright-line test for what makes a leader effective, and no model that can perfectly determine great leadership. We all know of examples of leaders who excelled in one environment and failed in another, as well as leaders who were average in one organization and proved spectacular in a new role. One of the factors explaining this phenomenon is that leadership is a relational skill; it is about how you interact with others. Read more...

Forbes: 10 Communication Secrets of Great Leaders

It is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator. I hope you noticed the previous sentence didn’t refer to being a great talker – big difference. The key to becoming a skillful communicator is rarely found in what has been taught in the world of academia. Read more...

HBR: The Must-Have Leadership Skill

The think tank’s work centers on interlocking networks of relationships with the board, staff, donors, and a wide variety of academics and policy experts. The CEO urgently needed to manage those relationships, but lacked the interpersonal skills that organizations increasingly need in their leaders. A CEO who fails to navigate those relationships artfully, the think tank’s board saw, could torpedo the organization. Read more...

Self Coaching Assessment:

1. How do you generally deal with conflict? Do you avoid it or do you enjoy it?

2. What is your initial response to conflict with members of your team? How might it effect both performance and the overall feeling of teamwork?

3. Do you currently have any issues or conflict with someone that you've been avoiding or trying to work through? What steps have you taken to resolve this?

4. Do you consider how other individuals on your team feel about conflict? How might that affect their attitude towards your feelings about conflict?

5. How do you manage your relationships in general? Would you say you are focused and consistent in monitoring and working on your relationships or just let things take their natural course?

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MSBCOACH Leadership Maturity Model

Depending on whether you (or your team member) are at the executive, mid-manager level, supervisory, entry, new to organization or new to role level, there are core competencies that are necessary for successful progression on the Leadership Climb.

The leadership competencies as defined in our MSBCOACH Leadership Maturity Model create the backbone of our coaching, training and the we work we do everyday.

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