High Bandwidth Leadership

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because s/he wants to do it." Dwight Eisenhower.

High Bandwidth Team Leadership and Membership Increased capacity for implementation and contribution from reduced stress and friction in working relationships.

Leadership Bandwidth is the capacity to get things done with others and it increases as friction and stress in working relationships are removed. We experience high bandwidth leadership when everything satisfyingly comes together. Then we are empowered, stress-free and relate much more effectively.

In working relationships, stress can show up in each of us as habitually adopted roles. When we add to the stress of the role to the stress caused by our assumptions about others' roles, we get into a stress spiral! This can be momentary, causing us to loose an opportunity in an existing relationship or it can be habitual, making the establishment of productive relationships quite difficult. After such encounters we can find ourselves blaming the other person for their attitude or kicking ourselves when we recognize the missed opportunity.

The challenge is to develop a real time relational awareness, an awareness of our behavior and the ways others respond to us. Only when we have identified the nature of our working relationships, the roles we and others play under stress, can we take responsibility and adapt our approach to reduce friction and tension and increase our leadership bandwidth.

High bandwidth practices are discovered and narrower ones broadened or discarded in Leadership Conversations. You can expect to learn powerful new practices even in the first conversation and only four or five may be needed for you to significantly increase your leadership bandwidth.