People Leader

Pre-Engagement Activities:

Prior to all our engagements, we will send out two online questionnaires.

1. Team Assessment / Traits of Great Leaders / Your Leadership Competencies - It is a short questionnaire to get leader’s and team member’s view on their teams performance and dynamics.

Section 1: Team Assessment

Section 2: Traits of Great Leaders

Section 3: Self Assessment of your own Leadership Competencies

2. Simple Personality Exercise (Identify dominant traits). Understanding who you are is very important to building strong relationships. The questionnaire will take 5 to 10 minutes of your time. All results are anonymous and will be used for the purpose of coaching and personal development. Remember: We are who we are. There are no right or wrong answers. We all have traits that define who we are and how we interact with others. Once you realize this, the better you will be able to manage relationships with all personality types.

Note: We use a simplified version of BOLT - Charles J. Clarke III is the creator of the BOLT™ system

The goal of the exercise is to show how we see ourselves is sometimes very different from how others see us. Our experiences, relationships/interactions determine how we see others and ourselves. The exercise will show our dominant traits. We are who we are so there is no right or wrong.

I ask members to share how they see their leader so he/she can get a better understanding of their impacts (good or bad) on the group that they may not know they are having. Those are called blind spots. I good leader understands their blind spots and they work with their team on them.

The exercise is not about comparing one person to another but more to show how diverse a team is from a personality perspective and from what each person thinks make good leaders (traits). Those are the dynamics that every leader and team need to deal with and understand to perform and trust and respect each other in their respective roles.

A leader is responsible to lead the team and work on building these relationships and bridging the differences via leading by example, managing change, setting expectations, facilitating discussions, and making decisions (3 types).

The group will better understand that our behavioral impacts (known and unknown) - behaviours & blind spots, how we treat each other are the root causes of most conflicts and performance gaps. Giving up the need to right, is hard but it is the only way to start having real team building conversations and growing trust.

Don't worry the exercises will be fun but I wanted to give you a feel of what some of the best performing teams focus on.

Peer Coaching Vs Traditional One on One

These types of exercises open up the group to Peer Coaching opportunties. Peer coaching is where the learning is done in a group environment with people (peers) who you may not regularly interact with each other. The group members learn from each other.

Benefits:

• Nurture collaborative approach to learning

• Witness each others' behavioural impacts (our blind spots)

• Safe space to practice new skills and step out of your comfort zones

• Learn active listening

• Develop support networks

Success factors:

• Commitment to Confidentiality

• Trust and Supportive

• Willingness to share doubts and weaknesses

• Open to feedback and diverse perspectives

To learn more about Peer Group Coaching read "The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching" by Harvard Business Review