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What Level are You
as a Leader?
or as a Parent?
or as a Trainer?
THE BAD NEWS
Most leaders today are at Level 1 or Level 2. Which level are you?
A Level 1 leader
A Level 2 leader leads with
It's not surprising that almost all leaders are Level 1 or Level 2. After all, that's how leaders are trained themselves these days.
The vast majority of trainers today (which includes authors, speakers, gurus, "experts," and bloggers and vloggers) are Low-Level trainers (Level 1 or Level 2).
And they train you to become a Low-Level leader.
They train you with answers about leadership — leadership "techniques," leadership "best practices," leadership "traits," and "leadership do's and don'ts."
If you think about it, you'll realize that mainstream leadership trainers actually
They teach you answers. And, as a result, you believe that leading with answers is the way to great leadership.
But what exactly is wrong with leading, learning and training with answers? After all, everyone is doing it. This is how we've always done it, haven't we?
How could most people be so wrong?
Read on.
In Good to Great, Jim Collins introduced the concept of a Level 5 Leader. A defining characteristic of a Level 5 Leader is, instead of feeding answers, they lead by asking questions.
But … very few leaders today are Level 5. How many leaders do you know who lead with questions?
How about you? Do
THE REALLY BAD NEWS
In any case, it doesn't matter that most leaders are stuck at Level 1 or 2 and nowhere near being a Level 5 Leader. Because Level 5 is
It's
Why not?
Marshall Goldsmith explains why leading by asking questions (Level 5) is not enough.
He explains that Level 5 leaders — the very few that actually lead with questions — ask questions merely to gather facts. Goldsmith calls this information-seeking questions.
What he says is necessary is you ask questions that
stimulate curiosity andnurture understanding . He calls this understanding-seeking questions.So …
To become a Level 10 Leader, all you have to do is ask your direct reports understanding-seeking questions?
Not quite. Read on.
In today's rapidly-evolving business environment, you need your team to be firing on all cylinders without prompting from you.
This means you must
You must actively develop/coach/mentor your people to ask understanding-seeking questions themselves. So that they stimulate their own thinking. So that they become naturally curious and acutely observant.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, "The students are now working as if I did not exist."
Maria Montessori
Only then will you be a Level 10 Leader.
THE GOOD NEWS
Becoming a Level 10 leader is your surest and only true way to
When you become a Level 10 Leader, Employee Engagement and Innovation (and a whole lot else) are
So, scrap your Employee Engagement initiatives. Throw away your Innovation training programs. Devote yourself to becoming a Level 10 leader instead. Then, enjoy the
The world's truly great leaders, parents, teachers, coaches and mentors develop their mentees to excel as though the leader, parent, teacher, coach or mentor didn't exist.
THE REALLY GOOD NEWS
Becoming a Level 10 leader is actually
How can that be?
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully
select his own methods . The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, issure to have trouble .Emerson
When you spoon-feed your employees with methods and techniques, you have to train them with a lot of techniques. You have to inundate them with instructions and policies and procedures and manuals and rules. All this is arduous and time-consuming. It's a lot of hard work. It requires a lot of repetition and regurgitation.
On the other hand, when you develop them to consider understanding-seeking questions themselves, you only have to do so with a handful of questions.
With just a handful of questions, the transformation in the organization begins almost immediately.
Once you transform yourself from Level 1 or Level 5 … to Level 10, it is possible to see a highly-motivated, highly-energized, highly-innovative organization within weeks, rather than months or years.
EXCELLENT NEWS
There's just a handful of questions.
You develop your direct reports to ask themselves this small handful of questions to get them firing on all cylinders.
And you also learn to ask yourself these very same questions so that you excel in leadership, innovation, execution, strategy, selling, presentations, etc.
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