The Triple Win of Better Leaders, Better Teams, and Better Results

The author, founder and CEO of Global Coach Group, begins by discussing conventional ideas regarding leadership development. Yet his data based on coaching more than 100,000 leaders reveals that “when leaders are coached in isolation, only about 18% of coworkers report being satisfied with the improvements the leader makes, even after twelve months.” He describes his “Triple Win” approach; “an ongoing partnership where leaders, coaches, and coworkers all play a role in making change real, meaningful, and lasting.” He notes that “performance is a team sport.” In his terminology, this leads to better leaders, better teams, better results; and that “leading is cocreating change with coworkers.” The process is further described, in the author's words, as 1. Start with real moments 2. Distill to two observable behaviors 3. Make the business case in plain language 4. Invite feedforward … and make the plan visible 5. Implement together. Within a ‘making change easy’ section, he makes four points; in his words 1. Translate the action plans into “practice moments” 2. Keep shared ownership human and close to the work 3. Use a steady measurement rhythm to prevent drift 4. Let technology do the admin, so people can make the change.