What are some of the most innovative and creative leadership development exercises you have seen or tried?

One of my favourite exercises when it comes to constant self-improvement, for myself and my clients, is to ask four simple questions (preferably daily), reflect on them, and then develop strategies to address them. The questions are: 1. What's working well (that I can keep doing)? 2. What do I need to improve (do differently)? 3. What do I need to start doing (recalibrate)? 4. What do I need to stop doing (as a result of failure and learning)?

The "Personal Advisory Board," exercise that I use as a valuable resource for individuals pursuing personal development, career planning, and holistic life improvement. This exercise emphasizes networking and professional growth, aiming to establish a comprehensive support network that aids people defining and attaining their goals.

It is vital to regularly reflect on how you are operating, what is working and what isn't, and plan the next steps in your personal development. I recommend combining measuring against a model (bearing in mind all models are wrong, but most are useful), and also taking a reflective unstructured view, and seeing what insights you get. I'm happy to share some free tools I use if anyone is interested in this.

In my experience, it’s best to understand foundation, and origin of some of these personality assessments. There is not a one-size-fits-all and you get what you pay for. Make sure you are optimizing the best when it comes to “Cognitive reads.” For the last 50 years, we’ve made sure to develop one of the best on the market. These assessments are absolutely groundbreaking to advance your clientele and even your own personal life to an optimal level.

There is a coaching philosophy called ‘Cross- domain Coaching’ and it revolves around the theory that ‘how you do anything is how you do everything’. The goal is to reveal your true self, blind spots and break down the professional facade you unconsciously have, and provoke what is known as an immune response to an uncomfortable situation. I’ve been part of basketball classes where you get ‘truth reps’, how to deliver real time feedback and truth, assessed leadership skill in cross fit classes, and had a deep epiphany on reflection after a dance class. They all require you to have an opinion, share it, understand your bias, and explain your thinking and do it quickly. All this helps increase team decision making.

Role playing can be fun and helpful for behavioural development. The richer the context can be made around the scenario to make it more realistic and to provide practiced learning in a near-real context the better. It is often more beneficial to curate the scenario appropriately rather than encourage people to get engulfed in the roles.

While role-playing can be supportive, I believe it is even more important to know who you are role-playing with and understand how you are structuring your learning following. A coach is usually a nonbiased person who is skilled and trained in providing feedback and reflections that are free from their own opinion or judgment of the situation.

We use role-playing as part of our conflict management program. The participants always love it and every scenario is something that I've experienced in my career. It gives people low-risk opportunities to practice new skills and gain confidence in their ability to navigate hard conversations. Each scenario is recorded and people get feedback so it's really useful and builds a lot of confidence for the leaders.

Vision boards can be supportive visual reminders for leaders. Oftentimes as leaders, we have competing priorities and a vision board can allow us, in the moment, to understand how to make a decision by understanding how it relates to what our larger commitment is as it relates to our vision.

As you create your board, don't just focus on future goals. Also, gather to represent what motivates you, the challenges you've overcome, and your proudest accomplishments. Finding images and moments that have shaped you provides self-insight and reveals consistent threads that run throughout your journey. Then, arrange all elements on a board, poster or digital platform. You can also add affirmations, quotes or questions that inspire self-reflection. Review your full collage periodically to realign with your bigger-picture vision while recognising how far you've come. The main idea added here is to have part of the vision board explicitly focus on self-discovery -This allows leading more authentically aligned to that self-knowledge.

A famous proverb we have had in my coaching firm is taken from a famous Proverb that states: “ plans fail for a lack of council, but with many advisors they succeed.” Throughout history, there was one common-core commonality that all great kings and queens had : LeConfidant.Com

There are exercises that leaders can do with each other which can bring awareness of areas of growth to the surface organically. I once facilitated an activity where one leader had to instruct another to sketch out a photo which the leader doing the sketching couldn't see. The results catalyzed deeper reflections around leadership skills, such as their communication, which aspects of it benefited their collaboration, and which aspects of it created a barriers. Accessing our creativity in ways that are not obviously related to leadership can bring a fresh perspective to our assessments of ourselves as leaders.

A feedback circle can be a powerful way for leaders to gain support from each other through a communities of practice. When done within an environment that enables safe sharing of experiences and healthy, respectful feedback or challenge, it really does give people a sense of belonging and reassurance that they are competent at what they do, alongside picking up useful new ways of leading.

No contexto organizacional, o círculo do feedback é um ciclo essencial para promover a melhoria contínua e o desenvolvimento. Come?a com a observa??o de desempenho ou comportamento, seguida pela coleta de dados. O feedback é ent?o comunicado, recebido e refletido pela equipe. Isso leva a ajustes no desempenho e comportamento, reiniciando o ciclo. Esse processo contínuo impulsiona a eficácia organizacional, otimiza a colabora??o e facilita a adapta??o às mudan?as.

Another example of a leadership challenge is an action learning project. A cohort is assigned a strategic business challenge, and over the course of several months works through discovery of a solution and makes a proposal to senior leadership.

One of my clients (he is Italian) had a pizza making afternoon with his team. He asked one of the newer members of the team (who was from India) to teach the rest of his team how to make pizza over video call. They are a remote team spread globally and it was a fun way to get the team to know each other in a different way. He uses many strategies/games like this and has built a very high-trust, psychologically safe team who are happy high-performers!

Reflect First. Before jumping into a leadership challenge opportunity, take time to honestly reflect on your current strengths and growth areas as a leader. Knowing how you will be stretched can help you pick the right challenge or prepare for one assigned to you. Set Developmental Goals. Have explicit learning objectives beyond the outcome of the challenge itself. These could involve building new skills like public speaking, decision-making under pressure, managing conflict, etc. Track your progress. Embrace Discomfort. I want you to know that the urge will be to leverage your existing strengths to complete the challenge. Push yourself to lead in ways outside your comfort zone instead, as that is where accelerated learning happens.

I like the exercise of guiding someone blindfolded to help them do.something like going to another room or setting up a puzzle only by using voice commands. This shows the person that's leading the process, how much we need to pay attention to details, improve out delegation , communication skills and also something that is clear to me might not be so clear to a colleague. It's great!

Gratitude and success journalling are very powerful tools to develop and sustain the confidence and momentum necessary for leaders to be successful. Give them a try, don't expect results for a few months, and then be taken aback by the positive benefits they start to create after that.

Audio journaling using WhatsApp is a popular tool for my clients. They share One thing that worked One thing which could have been better One person they are grateful to This 2 minute audio they listen to before they sleep It reprograms their subconscious belief system and amplifies their results.

Living in a culture where we type everything on handheld devices or laptopcomputers has taken away from the brains process and power of writing things down. Audrey van der Meet, a neuroscientist, and Professor at Norwegian university of science and technology said, that due to an increase reliance on the digital sphere, “we risk having one or more generations, lose the ability to write by hand.” After analyzing the brain activity, taken from experimental research, I found that areas of the brain correlated with working memory and encoding new information were more active during hand writing. Hence the reason I keep a journal and make sure my clients do the same. Everybody is making breakthroughs.???

Cada líder tem um perfil comportamental, uma forma de interpretar o que acontece e enfrenta desafios que possuem significados diferentes de acordo com o que ele consegue enxergar. Seus pontos fortes s?o singulares assim como sua experiência. Por isso, cada líder deve receber uma ajuda personalizada, de acordo com seu perfil comportamental e a vis?o de mundo que consegue perceber. Um treinamento formatado muitas vezes traz o que ele poderia estar ensinando e ele apenas perde seu precioso tempo, desperdi?ando o dinheiro da empresa. Para profissionais de alta performance, o coaching executivo montado de forma personalizada de acordo com o perfil comportamental do líder feito por um profissional que já liderou terá foco no que o líder precisa

A journal can help you identify certain patterns of thinking that you may not have been aware of before. You can then either reframe your approach or do even more of what you're good at in order to get better outcomes. It's a great reflection tool that also demonstrates your own growth as a leader over time.