Between the leaders I've worked with in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program and the individual executives I've coached over the last 20 plus years, I've delivered around 2,000 colleague feedback reports. And there's one thing I've seen again and again in so many of those feedback conversations. High achieving, ambitious leaders want to blow right past the strengths that have enabled their success and dive right into what they need to "fix"
Big mistake.
Having once been a high achieving, ambitious leader myself, I get it. "Yeah, yeah, all those positive comments are nice, but just tell me what I need to fix to be better." What I know now after coaching so many leaders that I didn't know back when I was an executive is that your strengths are typically where most of the leverage is.
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