Coaching Through Chaos: 3 Ways to Unleash Your Team's Superpowers During Disruption

In today's rapidly changing world, leaders are faced with the constant challenge of navigating uncertainty and disruption. During these chaotic times, the role of a leader as coach becomes even more critical. 

By providing guidance, support, and inspiration, leaders coaching can help their teams unleash their superpowers and navigate challenges with resilience and adaptability.   

In this article, we'll explore three key strategies that leaders can use to empower their teams during times of disruption:

1. Help Each Team Member Connect With Their Strengths

Everyone has superpowers. Maybe it's problem-solving, creativity, or adaptability. Coaching is like a personal trainer for your team's brain muscles. It helps them uncover their hidden strengths and turn them into superpowers. 

By providing guidance, support, and a little bit of "you've-got-this" encouragement, you'll unleash a team of problem-solving, innovative, and adaptable superheroes.

Ask the coaching questions, “What strengths did you tap into to achieve x? How can you utilize that again?”

2. Strengthen Your Team’s Tenacity

Disruption can feel like a hurricane. Winds are howling, things are flying, and it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Coaching helps your team build a mental fortress – a place of strength, tenacity, and positivity. By teaching them coping strategies, fostering a growth mindset, and encouraging open communication, you'll create a team that's not just weathering the storm, but thriving in it. 

Ask these questions to help your team build tenacity and emerge stronger than ever, “What would strengthen our approach/plan in this situation? How can we leverage this change/disruption to become stronger?”

3. Help Team Members Navigate the Unknown Together

Change is scary. Coaching provides that flashlight beam of support and guidance. By creating a safe space for your team to share their fears, doubts, and wild ideas, you'll build a united front that's ready to face anything. When your team feels comfortable sharing their concerns with you as the leader, you have an opportunity to support them and ask powerful coaching questions.

Here are a couple of questions you can ask your team to help them navigate uncertainty and change, “What are our strengths in dealing with change? What can we do differently as a team to deal with the changes?”

Coaching isn't just about fixing problems; it's about unlocking your team's full potential. 

So, invest the time in asking powerful coaching questions to support your team during times of uncertainty and disruption.

Leadership Practice

Introduce at least one of the above questions into your next 1:1 with your team members to see the conversation that is possible when you coach rather than tell. It’s quite a transformative experience for your employee as well as yourself!

About Athena

Athena Williams, Founder and CEO of Tenacious Leadership Institute, has been supporting leaders worldwide to become more tenacious for over 20 years. She has found that tenacity is the key to sustained leadership success in today’s ever-changing world. Through her coaching and leadership development programs, she helps leaders expertly handle change, complexity and other challenges so they can quickly get better results for themselves, their teams and their organizations. Take the first step to becoming a tenacious leader by scheduling a call with us.