Can You Answer These Important Questions About Your Leadership Superpower?

I admit it! I am a HUGE Marvel Cinematic Universe fan. So, I was absolutely thrilled to get tickets to the “Marvel Universe of Superheroes Exhibit” at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

For a leadership coach, there is enough content in that exhibit to write at least 10 meaty Linked In posts, but I’ll start with this – can you answer these three important Leadership Superpower questions?

1. How do you determine your Leadership Superpower?

Often our first thought in determining our Leadership Superpower is what we “do” best. We may have special expertise in customer service, architecting software, or raising capital for growth, but those aren’t the Superpowers I’m referring to. Captain America had superhuman strength, but I’d argue that wasn’t his real Superpower. Those were assembling and inspiring a team and acting with integrity.

Self-reflection, self-awareness, and feedback help us to see our real Superpowers. I refer to this as getting “clarity” and it is a core component of my leadership coaching program. Maybe yours is keeping calm under tremendous pressure, influencing others, beating the competition, leading through change, or overcoming extremely challenging problems.

2. How do you leverage your Leadership Superpower?

Identifying Leadership Superpowers is one thing but learning to use them well is altogether different. Even the amazing Spiderman had to practice swinging from building to building with his web before he didn’t hit a wall. Exercising and refining your Leadership Superpower is an important part of building leadership presence – another key component of my leadership coaching program. Sometimes Superpowers can be overplayed like one executive I know whose desires to overcome big challenges, began to burn out the team. Other times, Superpowers need to be showcased like when my client used her Superpower to resolve conflict and move her team into new responsibilities.

3. How do you bring out the Superpowers in others?

One of the most important roles of a leader is developing other leaders much like Iron Man (Tony Stark) invested in Spiderman (Peter Parker). As part of my leadership coaching program, I help my clients empower their teams, delegate well, and coach their people to be future leaders. Doing this brings out the Superpowers in others as they learn what motivates them, and how they operate at their best.

Would you like to learn more about how I help my clients discover, leverage, and grow their Leadership Superpowers?