Creating a Leadership Framework and Training

I think a lot about building and leading teams and processes. A lot. I love a good framework, and I am always building them.

I also think a lot about leadership styles, and the kinds of teams different types of leaders build, I've had the great fortune to work with some amazing leaders over my career, none more amazing than my good friend and mentor Karin Wu, who I've gotten to partner with in two different organizations.

We would talk all the time about how aligned our leadership styles were, how we would describe our style, and how we could help other leaders learn that style.

Over the years, we settled on the team Creative Leadership, which we defined as an ongoing journey to discover, create, and explore opportunities to serve the amazing people we are lucky enough to lead.

We believe that by accepting a leadership position, you are taking on responsibility for the people you lead, as well as the outcomes the team is accountable for.  Balancing your responsibility to the organization and to the people you lead is a constant.    

I recently built a framework for leadership training that  uses Creative leadership as the foundation for a coaching and mentoring model. If you are bought into the idea of creative leadership and putting the people you lead in a position to be successful, this framework can help you do that

The C.O.A.C.H. Framework uses sport as an analogy for leading a team in any organization, and the components of that framework apply to most any leadership position:

• Control the Pace for Your Team

• Optimize strategy for the roster you have 

• Adjust based on situational factors

• Create opportunities for players to shine

• Hold yourself accountable first