After sharing an article recently about The Leadership Circle – a leadership profiling model I have undertaken with my own coach and found particularly useful – I received several questions and comments about its potential and how to go about analysis of what can at first glance seem a fairly complex set of results.
Kindly, my own coach Bruce O’Brien – who is also a Leadership Circle Practitioner, said he would happily take me through an example, anonymised Leadership Circle profile and talk through in more detail the best way to start analysis your own strengths and how to lean into them to help balance other less strong areas of leadership.
Bruce is very easy to listen to, and explains in simple, easy to grasp terms the growth potential the model has for leaders.
We discussed:
- What the Leadership Circle is, and how it helps aid growth in leaders
- The added value in overlaying your ‘community’ results (people you work with or for) to see the relationship between your own awareness of leadership skills versus the perception of those around you
- The general geography of The Leadership Circle and how each area relates and impacts on others
- The benefits of the Leadership Circle over and above other leadership analysis tools
- Identifying areas to begin analysis once you get your results (and no, it’s not usually the ones with the ‘lowest’ scores)
- The important acknowledgement that The Leadership Circle is never about ‘being wrong’ as a leader – rather finding your natural self, seeing the areas that work well and leaning into those. This has the natural effect of counteracting the areas you are weaker in.
Just after our recorded discussion ended, Bruce mentioned something else which I thought was important to share; the fact that The Leadership Circle has the ability to compare thousands of people’s results in relation to your own, effectively earmarking the areas where people with your sort of profile made the fastest and most impactful changes.
Helping to answer the question of “where do I focus and what do I do first?” – absolutely fascinating.
You can access the PDF of the sample anonymised profile we discuss, here.
Bruce has expressed that he is happy to help anyone who has an interest in finding out more about The Leadership Circle. If that’s you then you can email him brucecobrien@me.com for a no strings discussion – I can highly recommend him as an extremely knowledgeable source.
I hope you find the discussion interesting and it gives you a better understanding of the potential of The Leadership Circle tool.
Andy.
Every Wednesday I book out an hour to hold a FREE agency leaders surgery. If you have something on your mind, a challenge you’re wrestling with or just want an alternative point of view, I’d be very happy to lend an ear and maybe help you start to unpick the issues. You can help yourself to my calendar, here. Speaking to a diverse group of agency leaders helps me stay current and contextualise the issues I’m seeing with my clients. So please see this conversation as a genuine collaboration where we both hope to learn something new.