Executive Coaching Guru

There is no doubt about it, that being a leader has responsibilities and most of them are obvious, but still many leaders see their responsibility as being a very finite level, generally being what they have direct control over.

The reality is that leadership responsibility is horizontal and not vertical, meaning that leadership looks across the business as opposed just up and down it, the Executive Coaching Guru developed the TLeadershipModel to simply illustrate that where as management has vertical responsibility, leadership has a horizontal one.

The very essence of management is the achievement of outputs through the management of resources, the very essence of leadership is the achievement of outputs with the continued sustainabiltiy and legacy of a business. What’s important to understand is that leadership by its very definition entwined with responsibility and a sense of purpose that goes beyond the pure achievement of the task, leaders give value and reason to a business, aligning the everyday tasks to something that has a greater value and thus bringing value to all people at all levels.

Understanding this is very important as we hear about ‘credit crunch’ and the leadership of the financial markets, that is effecting the world currently, how has this come about? At its most basic it is a disregard of the TLeadershipModel and a limited focus on the horizontal.

People can at the most senior or junior levels can:

• become enamored by their own agenda, yes at a daily transactional level, but also on a more personal level that can flow between fear around capability, through greed and a personal agenda that has no interest in the business other than a mechanism for increased financial gain.
• see their value as being one of stewardship and development.

As an executive coach it is paramount that we advocate for the horizontal as well as the vertical, that stewardship and responsibility are our natural antidote for the current chaos and crisis that we see within the world markets and that as the pressure of the everyday transactional, output lead environment places pressure on the most authentic of leaders , the executive coach uses personal authenticity to enable senior managers to navigate their path.

Consider the following, that if you have ‘leadership’ within your personal self-definition, then you have responsibility to others, if you don’t see this as the case not only are you wrong, but you aren’t a leader, you are just a manager who has (unfortunately) control.