How Do I Overcome My Disillusionment with the Executive Team? | Coaching Real Leaders | Podcast

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**Muriel Wilkins** (1:01)
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I'm Yaria Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Presents Network. I'm a long time executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road. My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them, so that hopefully they can lead with a little more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show, we have a one time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing. Today's guest is someone we'll call Michael to protect his confidentiality. He's been in his current leadership role for several years, helping to support a number of teams across a diverse region.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:59)
How I approach the role that I'm in today is really by demonstrating the desire, willingness to develop within the organizations that I've worked for.
So I'm very much a people-centric leader, and I feel like that's really helped me in my journey. And I have an appreciation and a real respect for the team that does the work every day, and that's really helped me in my career today.

**Muriel Wilkins** (2:29)
Michael works hard to ensure that his teams deliver on the targets set by the company every year and are continuously improving. He believes he's found effectiveness in this role because of his leadership style.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:40)
I'm able to relate to all levels within the organization.
I enjoy spending time on the floor, engaging with the team, understanding their challenges and their frustrations, and then being able to provide solutions and input to that to make their job better, more rewarding, and to really foster the team environment. When I look at the leadership models, the one that really aligns with my beliefs is really a servant leader approach, and really being able to be there as a servant for those team members, and to really help them be the best that they can be.

**Muriel Wilkins** (3:20)
While it sounds like much is going well for Michael with his teams, he reached out because he's been struggling with what's happening with the senior leadership team above him. And so I started by asking him to elaborate on his situation.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:35)
Through my working career, one thread that I've noticed is that as a senior leader, I become disillusioned with an organization when I see the executive leaders not demonstrating the values of the organization, not living the values, not applying the values. And what that causes is a lot.

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