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Be the Leader

The Big Idea

Based on Paul Thornton’s Three C Leadership Model: Challenge, Confidence, and Coaching, this book guides potential business leaders on how to tap into their leadership roles and realize their visions. Challenge the status quo. Build confidence in others. Coach people on what to do and how to do it.

1. 3-C Leadership Model: Challenge. Confidence. Coaching.

• Leaders are essential for setting the company vision, assessing where the company stands and making difficult choices. Leaders must be able to pull a team together, solve problems and develop strategies.
• Leaders Challenge people.
• Leaders build their people’s Confidence.
• Leaders Coach the people they lead.
• Leaders challenge people by bringing them out of their “comfort zones”, enabling people to reach successes that they never thought they could achieve.
• Leaders boost confidence and put their faith in their people to deliver the goal.
• Leaders reward intelligent failures, or the sincere effort to achieve, even if the effort may fail.
• Leaders communicate a clear and compelling vision to challenge people to think and act differently as they pursue a new agenda.
• Leaders challenge by creating tighter timetables and stretching goals
• Leaders ask provocative questions, they often ask “Why?” and “What if”
• Benchmarking challenges people to find and learn from best practices.
• Challenges also come in the form of new assignments, new positions, and new projects.

2. State a challenging vision

A vision expresses a desired future state that is better in some important way than what currently exists. It can be quantitative, (achieve 20% average annual return on stockholders’ equity) or qualitative (help consumers have a better quality of life guaranteed in the American dream). . . . . .