17 Leadership Lessons to move you, and your career forward.
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1. What is not changing
Life changes.
Business changes.
The change comes faster and faster.
We need to remind ourselves, and those who work with us, of what is not changing.
Ceretainty reduces fear. Certainty amidst change maintains a level of calm.
Life changes.
Business changes.
The change comes faster and faster.
We need to remind ourselves, and those who work with us, of what is not changing.
Ceretainty reduces fear. Certainty amidst change maintains a level of calm.
2. Skill evolution
When you start your career, you will be focused on technical skills.
If promoted to manager for being technically strong, you will need to learn emotional intelligence.
If promoted to an executive position, you will need to address your blind spots.
When you start your career, you will be focused on technical skills.
If promoted to manager for being technically strong, you will need to learn emotional intelligence.
If promoted to an executive position, you will need to address your blind spots.
3. Look behind you
If you are in a leadership position, and you look behind you, and no one is following you, then you're not leading, you're just out for a walk.
A leader inspires followership in their people. They paint a vision and bring people along.
If you are in a leadership position, and you look behind you, and no one is following you, then you're not leading, you're just out for a walk.
A leader inspires followership in their people. They paint a vision and bring people along.
4. Diversity & Inclusion
As a leader today, champion diversity and inclusion.
Create an environment where all people have a right to speak. Where they do not need to earn the right to speak.
As a leader today, champion diversity and inclusion.
Create an environment where all people have a right to speak. Where they do not need to earn the right to speak.
5. There is no template
Leadership is about developing skills & abilities, recognizing our blindspots and closing them.
There is no single template someone can give you to automatically make you a better leader.
Leadership is about developing skills & abilities, recognizing our blindspots and closing them.
There is no single template someone can give you to automatically make you a better leader.
6. Impostor syndrome
1 in 10 CEOs has impostor syndrome.
If you are around a table of 10 CEOs, one of them doesn't believe they belong.
These are the most senior people in the Company.
It is alright to think you don't belong - it's what you do about it that matters.
1 in 10 CEOs has impostor syndrome.
If you are around a table of 10 CEOs, one of them doesn't believe they belong.
These are the most senior people in the Company.
It is alright to think you don't belong - it's what you do about it that matters.
7. Leadership quadrants
Imagine a graph - on the vertical axis we have confidence with confident at the top and unsure at the bottom.
Ont he horizontal axis we have internal on the left and external on the right.
Imagine a graph - on the vertical axis we have confidence with confident at the top and unsure at the bottom.
Ont he horizontal axis we have internal on the left and external on the right.
8. External and unconfident
Normally, when we start in leadership, we have low confidence.
We also don't know how to lead, so we look to external sources to understand how to lead.
This is the Observe Quadrant.
Normally, when we start in leadership, we have low confidence.
We also don't know how to lead, so we look to external sources to understand how to lead.
This is the Observe Quadrant.
9. Internal and unconfident
If we fail in the first quadrant, we fall to the second quadrant.
We are uncofident from our failure, and we begin to look internally for our deficiencies to improve.
This the Experiementing Quadrant
If we fail in the first quadrant, we fall to the second quadrant.
We are uncofident from our failure, and we begin to look internally for our deficiencies to improve.
This the Experiementing Quadrant
10. External and confident
As we gain confidence from working on our deficiencies, we begin to look external from ourselves.
We search for people to learn from, to be mentored by.
We seek templates to use in our leadership that can we can apply.
This is the Analyze Quadrant
As we gain confidence from working on our deficiencies, we begin to look external from ourselves.
We search for people to learn from, to be mentored by.
We seek templates to use in our leadership that can we can apply.
This is the Analyze Quadrant
11. Internal and confident
With greater success, we recognize that leadership is internal.
Our ability to succeed is dependent on us. On our strengths and on our areas for improvement.
We work to understand our blind spots and address them.
This is the Focus Quadrant
With greater success, we recognize that leadership is internal.
Our ability to succeed is dependent on us. On our strengths and on our areas for improvement.
We work to understand our blind spots and address them.
This is the Focus Quadrant
12. Build your toolkit
To a carpenter, always a hammer.
This is not how we want to lead in life.
We need to be able to select the right tool for the right job, which we should be able to do when we are in the Focus Quadrant.
The goal, then, is tools over templates.
To a carpenter, always a hammer.
This is not how we want to lead in life.
We need to be able to select the right tool for the right job, which we should be able to do when we are in the Focus Quadrant.
The goal, then, is tools over templates.
13. Personality assessments
A Quadrant 2 leader may use assessments against their people. To put them into a box. This is assessment done wrong.
A Quadrant 3 or 4 leader uses assessments for their people. To understand how the pieces of the puzzle best fit together.
A Quadrant 2 leader may use assessments against their people. To put them into a box. This is assessment done wrong.
A Quadrant 3 or 4 leader uses assessments for their people. To understand how the pieces of the puzzle best fit together.
14. Understand yourself
To be the best leader, you should understand yourself.
You should understand you strength, and areas for development.
Do as many personality tests as you can to understand yourself from multiple different angles.
To be the best leader, you should understand yourself.
You should understand you strength, and areas for development.
Do as many personality tests as you can to understand yourself from multiple different angles.
15. Build around you
When you understand yourself, you know your strengths. Your weaknesses.
Seek to build a team around you that will cover your weaknesses. A team that will allow you to focus on your strengths, which are how you add value to the business.
When you understand yourself, you know your strengths. Your weaknesses.
Seek to build a team around you that will cover your weaknesses. A team that will allow you to focus on your strengths, which are how you add value to the business.
16. Recognize your hero
To understand how you want to lead, understand your leadership models.
Read books.
Watch movies.
What characters do you identify with.
These characters often speak to your personality assessment.
To understand how you want to lead, understand your leadership models.
Read books.
Watch movies.
What characters do you identify with.
These characters often speak to your personality assessment.
17. Lead differently
A bad leader leads people the way they want to lead.
A good leader leads people the way the people want to be led.
Every person is different. Every person may want to be led differently.
Seek to understand their desires and lead them accordingly.
A bad leader leads people the way they want to lead.
A good leader leads people the way the people want to be led.
Every person is different. Every person may want to be led differently.
Seek to understand their desires and lead them accordingly.
This thread was inspired by my conversation with @marcapitman on the Pursuit of Learning Podcast.
Read Mark's book here:
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Read Mark's book here:
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