Welcome to Week 3 of the Feminine Leadership Series.

This week we are exploring the fundamental practices that make human collaboration successful.

We as a species are both powerfully drawn to collaborate – and powerfully lacking in natural capability to collaborate. This powerful diagnostic tool can get to the heart of any collaborative breakdown and point you to the exact behavior that you can use to make it successful.

This is the basic model that frames much of Bryan and I’s coaching work with top executives. A lifetime spent refining these practices is a lifetime re-creating yourself as a more and more effective leader.

The natural laws that determine whether two or more people are going to create a synergy or a food fight. There is a code, so that when teams work together it’s like magic and when they don’t it’s like the IQ drops to that of the lowest member. The code is called collaborative practices.

Leadership Series Resources

Watch the video below and download the pdf resources to learn our 5 Collaborative Leadership Practices.

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5 Collaborative Practices: Natural Laws of Leadership

1.  Being Present

2.  Being Accountable

3.  Being Clear

4.  Being Powerful

5.  Being Sustainable

The Hierarchical Nature of These Practices Pyramid

These practices are hierarchical in nature and therefore each build on one another starting. Think of it like a pyramid with the 5 practices representing each step. Download the pdf ‘Collaborative Practices’ below.

The bottom step on the pyramid is foundational and you build the other practices ontop of each other. It does not good to work on the top of the pyramid with being sustainable when you aren’t being present to what’s so and then accountable that you created it. It does no good to work on being powerful if you are completely unclear as to what you want.

When using this tool as a diagnostic for yourself and others look for the lowest step on the pyramid and apply leverage there first before moving up another step.

This Week’s Challenge

Choose one or more of these paradigms to champion in your life over the coming months. Which shift would have the most impact in your life and on your business?

For some guidance on how to decide, download the Collaborative Practices in Action worksheet. There are 5 domains to apply these 5 collaborative practices to…your thoughts, your speech, your actions, your relating, and your systems. Which areas do you demonstrate these 5 practices? Which areas are you not demonstrating these 5 practices.

Given their hierarchical nature, which one is the lowest on the pyramid that you know isn’t present in these domains? Always search for the one lowest on the pyramind. Enjoy!

As always, commit to viewing the world through the new lens of these 5 practices for one week and then share what difference that made. I can’t wait to read your comments below.

Look for the next resource in this series in your inbox in about 7 days. We’ll be diving deeper into each of these 5 areas over the coming weeks.

Join The Conversation

Let us know what you thought of this video? Have any Questions? How will you put it into practice? How do you plan to improve it in the weeks to come? Send your comments to me at jennifer@california-leadership.com I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

To Your Continued Success,

Jennifer Russell

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