Module: Modes and Mindset

For the modern, emotionally intelligent manager — self-awareness of our style tendencies, strengths and stretch areas is a vital starting point before addressing our impact on others.

In this module, we ground our thinking in four modes of managing teams today — Leading, Coaching, Directing and Doing. And we embrace the idea that we can choose the mode we’re in to suit different relationships and tasks, depending on the outcome required.

We discover how these modes purposefully combine, and how the Coaching mode — through an everyday coaching mindset — becomes fundamental for both enabling others, and in the process earning ourselves more time back. Time we can dedicate to Doing our higher-value work.

• Awareness of our personal strengths and their link to the modes
• Insight into the time we spend in each mode
• Recognition of the importance of increasing our time in Coaching mode
• Distinguishing higher-value and lower-value tasks
• Understanding the concept of situational management

Builds on:

• Outcomes of Reflective Assessment + 360° input
• Pre-reflection on our strengths and where our strengths can be overplayed
• Individual pre-audit of mode moments across the week
• Mission of asking ‘some curious questions’ from Question Bank shared