What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There
“What got you here, won’t get you there.” This is the title of one of Marshall Goldsmith’s books and is also a lesson I took to heart recently.
As an advisor and consultant to senior leaders, I was finding that increasingly many of my clients were seeking my guidance on how to improve their personal impact and effectiveness. They were simply not satisfied with good enough…for themselves, their direct reports, or their senior leadership teams as a whole.
While I have advised quite a few senior leaders and high potential leaders who have significantly improved their effectiveness, I recognized that I wanted to up my game in order to better serve my clients and their desire to markedly improve their effectiveness. And so, I became certified in the very best coaching method in the world. Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching® approach is simply the best of the best.
Stakeholder Centered Coaching is unique in a number of ways:
- It involves those individuals most impacted by the leader, but without a large investment of time.
- It supports the leader to make meaningful personal improvements, but ensures that the improvements are visible to those with whom the leader works most closely (stakeholders such as peers, direct reports, the leader’s manager).
- While the coaching process utilizes feedback, it emphasizes feed-forward to help the leader to improve more rapidly.
- It measures the leader’s improvement over time.
At its core, Stakeholder Centered Coaching acknowledges that to truly be more effective as a leader, one must seek to continuously improve and those changes must be noticeable to those around you. Stakeholder centered coaching accomplishes both simultaneously.
What got me here…
As a life-long learner and someone who strives for excellence in all I do, I recognize that by using the stakeholder centered coaching approach, I am even more impactful in supporting leaders to grow and excel.
When leaders become even more effective, they open the doors to new possibilities, new roles, expanded impact, and accelerated results (to name a few).
Successful leaders recognize that “what got them here, won’t get them there.”
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Kathy Letendre, President and Founder of Letendre & Associates, advises organizations and leaders to create their excellence advantage.
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