Three ways to become a great leader

By Deane Gyllenhaal

Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching

As an experienced leader, do you consider yourself a great leader? Or have you been thrust into a new leadership position but you never had leadership training? Does your company have a pipeline of emerging leaders in its succession plan?

Today’s leaders face many challenges, such as aligning their teams with the corporate strategy, motivating their teams, and maintaining a strong company culture.

Whether you’re a current or emerging leader, it’s important to identify the unique strengths and traits you want to embody. To become a great leader, you must continually nurture, strengthen, and leverage your talents in order to be the absolute best leader you can while helping your organization achieve its strategic goals.

1.) Know yourself and understand how you show up every day.

Great leaders inherently know themselves well - their character, values, and beliefs - defined as the Inner Core™. This selfknowledge produces a better Outer Core™ which are the characteristics people around you observe and experience.

This Wheel defines the components of what drives great leaders:

2.) Find your Leadership Gifts and Gaps

The Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching methodology uncovers and assesses your nine inner core traits. Once you, as a leader or emerging leader, isolate your individual values, you can better understand why you act and behave as you do. When you start exploring your own unique value and character you can develop a better roadmap to elevate your leadership legacy. The assessment that I offer compares leaders to over 15,000 other corporate leaders and ranks your scores for each trait.

3.) Get Help

The “leadership coaching space” is very crowded. There are many different methodologies. The decision to embark on a leadership coaching journey is a personal one. It’s important to not only understand the methodology, but the client and a coach need to have a good connection. Ease of communication is critical; the structure of the sessions needs to be in alignment as well. If you truly believe you can and want to elevate your leadership legacy executive coaching can help. I