Leadership Revolution

CHAPTER 10Lasting Change

Actually, things have been going really well lately. I made some missteps, but I learned from them and now I feel like I'm on course.

Coach: It's true. You're on a roll.

So what happens now?

Coach: Now we focus on how you keep that going, despite the challenges you can't see coming.

On some fundamental level, leadership development involves change. Whether you're talking about an up‐and‐coming manager with aspirations and potential, or a seasoned executive at the peak of their career, success is always about adjusting, improving, growing. That's what good coaching can help with.

Success is always about adjusting, improving, growing. That's what good coaching can help with.

The opening section of this book, much like a typical coaching engagement, established why there is a need to do something different. Leadership development has gotten hung up on old ways from past decades that just don't apply anymore. The middle section—and again, this echoes a coaching cycle—zeroed in, with greater and greater practical detail, on what needs to be different, and the specific ways to figure that out and accept the changes and challenges it requires. All of which leads up to truly understanding context.

That brings us to the final section: Here's what leaders and aspiring leaders can do differently. In a coaching sequence, that means not only addressing whatever particular issue might have inspired the coaching engagement in the first place, but equipping the ...