Snapshot of five behavioural coaching superpowers for leading teams!

Hi, we’re Helen Zink and Dr Cathryn Lloyd. We work closely with leaders and teams, and we know leaders face an array of challenges. Over the past few weeks we’ve shared 10 coaching superpowers for leaders to experiment with.

Below is a summary of superpowers 6 - 10. These are behavioural superpowers: what you do and your actions as a leader.

We previously posted a summary of superpowers 1 - 5, mindset superpowers: how you think and show up.

Stay tuned as we bring all 10 coaching superpowers together over coming weeks.

⭐ Superpower 6: sensing

Actively picking up on signals, patterns, and dynamics in the environment. Sensing helps leaders identify emerging challenges, recognise patterns and interdependencies, anticipate change, and enable proactive rather than reactive decision-making.

⭐ Superpower 7: learning

Encouraging reflection, feedback loops, knowledge sharing, and normalising failure. This helps teams evolve in real-time, rather than getting stuck in old ways of working and business as usual mindsets.

⭐ Superpower 8: linking

Noticing and linking dots, understanding context and systems, embracing diverse perspectives, and encouraging innovation. Linking leaders help their teams navigate uncertainty, value collective intelligence, and create pathways that help others connect to a shared purpose and outcomes.

⭐ Superpower 9: resourcing

Recognising potential, advocating, clearing obstacles, and tapping into networks to create opportunities. Leaders who excel in this don’t just fix problems; they equip their teams with the skills to navigate challenges independently and innovate with confidence. 

⭐ Superpower 10: resiliency 

Bouncing back from setbacks, adapting to new challenges, and maintaining focus in changing environments. Leaders who develop this quality themselves, and support their teams to do the same, create an environment for perseverance, agility and the ability to handle disruptions with confidence. 

Our top 3 insights:

💡 Sensing is similar to superpower one - self-awareness. Self-awareness is the mindset of paying attention to yourself; whereas sensing is about actively paying attention to the environment around you and the interconnecting systems you operate in. 

💡 Linking and resourcing are connected - both focus on the wider environment and how leaders and teams access and connect the relationships, tools, and support they need to thrive within it.

💡 Learning and resiliency are in concert and a continuous loop. Resilient teams reflect and adapt, and in doing so, deepen their learning, which in turn fuels even greater resilience.

🩷 We’d love to hear how you are experimenting and applying these ideas.

Image: Cathryn Lloyd