Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader

Strategic Relationships Summary Steps

This final strategy for coaching yourself to leadership requires planning, thoughtfulness, and a deep attitude of respect, and it calls for competency in the previous four strategies. Before you can build strategic alliances and supportive relationships, you have to know yourself. When you’re interacting with others, you’ll discover that the most rewarding relationships develop when you are authentic and true to yourself. In order to determine who possesses the skills and connections to help you, you’ll need to have an understanding of what you want and where you want to go. You’ll also have to be an effective communicator who knows how to clearly articulate your strengths, uniqueness, and goals, and who ...