the rollercoaster
Making the shift from technical expert to managing and leading people can be exhilarating when you get it right, frustrating when you get it wrong, and generate fear about not having what it takes and getting found out.
Leadership can feel like a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride.
It doesn't matter how long you've been leading, there are times when we all feel like we're not enough. If you're feeling like an imposter who doesn't belong, that is a ride you want to get off!
Adaptable: With well-rounded leadership skills and a commitment to mastery, adaptive leaders inspire action above and beyond expectations. They deeply and purposefully amplify individual and team strengths to grow and make a lasting positive impact.
Inspired: Inspired people actively work to create value-driven opportunities and build partnerships that lift others to achieve individual and shared goals.
Trusted: People who are trusted are more likely to seek opportunities to influence and improve things because they believe that the extra effort will create a benefit.
Constrained: People have worked hard to get out of being reactive and want to use their experience and strengths but feel stuck and frustrated, something or someone is holding them back. Having a personal presence that is calm and confident opens doors.
Reactive: If people cannot understand and work with emotions, they become reactive and micro-manage as they desperately need to gain control.
Powerless: When people feel powerless their core values are not being met, and their energy and performance dives. Responsibility is needed to prevent an attitude of blame and get out of the pain.
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the dilemma
With over 160 leadership styles currently reported in research, the expectations on those of us courageous enough to step up and lead have grown.
Executive and management titles don’t guarantee leadership, despite employees holding them primarily accountable when things aren’t working.
Trying to emulate multiple leadership styles, or develop your own, can be confusing, and overwhelming, and lead to more questions instead of answers and action.
Even for proactive people, we live in a noisy world where information is easy with more instant advice than ever – but limited time to curate and implement what works in specific contexts.
the adaptive leadership approach
Leaders can’t be all things to all people, and they don’t need to be.
To develop and grow your organisation or team with the right people, success requires leaders at all levels who strive for mastery of their emotions, thinking, and practice. With a values-driven commitment to build strength from within leaders amplify their and others' presence, influence, and impact.
The leadership services I offer are ideal to:
✓ Connect more deeply to what is needed and with purpose
✓ Define your unique value proposition
✓ Evaluate leadership from a visionary and practical perspective
✓ Understand and amplify your and other people’s strengths
✓ Increase emotional, thought, and practical leadership skills
✓ Test and adjust ideas for better performance
✓ Accept that positive shifts require personal commitment and consistency
✓ Change what isn't helpful, even if it hurts, to make way for success
✓ Ensure that the actions committed to achieve powerful results
My services are not ideal if:
✕ You're looking for a cheap, quick-fix solution
✕ You don't want to change
✕ You aren’t open to being advised and coached
✕ You can’t commit to doing the work to grow leadership and management skills
✕ You don’t value the time and effort required to develop people
adaptive leadership services
Adaptive Executives
One-on-one or small group sessions
Leverage over 20 years of coaching experience:
- Value your strengths
- Define your unique value proposition as an expert and leader
- Focus on developing mastery for your vision
- Benefit from 360 feedback on emotional and social skills for leadership and influence
- Receive independent support to work through the challenges of your role
- Increase your confidence with practical strategies and tactics that work
- Achieve goals faster in a healthy and sustainable way
Adaptive Leaders
3, 6, or 12-month development programs
Empower leaders at every level of your organisation. This program provides:
- Evidence-based and context-relevant approaches
- Understanding to leverage people's strengths and life experience
- Work on people's beliefs about trust, and how they impact outcomes
- Clarity on work culture drivers for healthy and sustainable teams
- Practical strategies to prioritise effort, facilitate change, and enable innovation
- One-on-one coaching for the executive sponsor
- Flexible delivery
You've got this!
Message me on LinkedIn, email melanie@melaniemarshall.com.au or book an initial chat about your needs. If you can't find a time that works call me on +61 407 004 352