Posture 3 - The Empowering Leader

The Empowering Leader

The Empowering Leader represents the third level of our 5 leadership postures. They are a leader who has the ability to lead and release other leaders. Calibration happens at this stage of organizational growth.

By this, we mean leaders focus on aligning other leaders & teams to execute the vision with success. You must be focused on building skills in people and systems for the organization. In doing this you will increase the capacity of others, preparing yourself and them for future leadership growth.

Rewards come in the traction of getting things done. You will start to see yourself and others achieving more while doing less.

You will empower others and they will feel a sense of belonging, taking responsibility and accountability in their goals & outcomes. You’ll start to scale and you’ll be doing this with transparency, honesty & trust.

The risks are failing to release others, micro-management, failing to set clear boundaries through delegation of authority, and holding others accountable. These things will create a poor culture of inaction & hesitancy.

Success brings a great team as you hire well, delegate, architect goals across the organisation turn leaders in coaches, empowering sustainable growth.

Waymaker’s ‘5 Leadership Postures’ offers a unique perspective on understanding leadership dynamics at different stages of organizational growth.

What made Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, or Jack Welch, stand-out leaders of industry and society?

All of them battled their own strengths and weaknesses to become better. They were not perfect by any stretch – but better at applying the right skills to the right moment in time.

They each had a special understanding of the posture they needed to hold at certain stages of the lifecycle of their organisation or country they were leading.

As organisations grow, they can only grow as far as their leaders have the capacity to lead them.

The primary ceiling of growth in your organisation is your ability to lead.

That’s why the old saying is true, “everybody wins when a leader gets better”.

As the organisation matures up the leadership curve it needs to break through stages of growth. They can only do this by leaders breaking through their own stages of leadership development.

In this article, we introduce you to the growth stages of a scaling business, the 5 Leadership Postures you need to adopt to achieve breakthrough at each stage, and the factors to consider at each.

The 5 Leadership Postures are a way of understanding the leadership development journey.

You’ll see attributes of the 5 Postures in yourself and others.

What kinds of leadership attributes are required now for your organisation?

What kind of leader are you?

What kind of leader do you need to be to help your organisation grow?

There are different leadership postures required at different stages of the leadership growth curve. It is important to use these leadership styles as a way of sharpening your focus on how to improve yourself.

Only then can you improve others.

Waymaker’s 5 Leadership Postures are:

These postures are cumulative. There are no shortcuts to successful leadership.

Master each stage to lead yourself into the next.