Personal growth and by extension, leadership growth, does not happen automatically because managers are working long hours or because they have a lot of interactions with others. Leadership development must be planned, deliberate and consistent.
There are three primary ways to develop leadership capability.
The first way is to study leadership and apply the lessons learned. In addition to Smart leadership workshops there are plenty of great podcasts and videocasts, webinars, blogs, meet-up groups to supplement your company-sponsored formal leadership education.
The second is to learn deeply from your experience at work. For example, ask to be assigned to a challenging project that will provide you an opportunity to exercise your leadership. Remember that leadership is about influencing positive change. Also, stay alert. Observe situations from different perspectives. Watch how different people handle leadership challenges. Have a teachable spirit and ask for feedback and be open to criticisms about your performance. And above all don’t be afraid to fail. You’ll learn more from failing once or twice than from succeeding all the time.
The third is to engage a professional leadership coach (Smart Coaching Works: Here's Proof.) A professional leadership coach can help you by providing much needed support and strategies for not only surviving but thriving under challenging circumstances. It is a personalized process that provides clarity on what success would look like, understanding the obstacles and barriers that get in the way of achieving it, and specific action steps to take that will lead to a positive outcome. Through active listening and powerful questioning, a coach will help the coachee maximize their potential and move toward a preferred future.
In addition to these three ways, we’ve identified and documented 28 Leadership Challenges that present the greatest opportunities for our coaching clients to elevate their impact as leaders and drive business results.
We invite you and your team of leaders to take our leadership Development Assessment by:
1) Clicking on the following link: Leadership Development Assessment
2) Downloading the file to your computer.
3) Completing the assessment (Which is a fillable PDF file.).
4) Reviewing the results with your one-up manager, a trusted adviser or colleague.
The assessment is really an inventory of best practices that will make you and your team better leaders. We encourage you to take each of them to heart. How you choose to implement these is up to you—pick one a day if you’re feeling up to, or one a week. Whatever your cadence, do your best to take the challenges off the pages of the assessment and into your real-world leadership roles.
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Remember, everything rises and falls on leadership. And leadership rises and falls on character and conversational intelligence.
To your greater success and fulfillment,
Peter Mclees, Leadership Coach, Trainer and Performance Consultant
SMART DEVELOPMENT
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Smart Development has an exceptional track record helping service providers, ports, sales teams, restaurants, stores, distribution centers, food production facilities, nonprofits, government agencies and other businesses create a strong culture, leadership bench strength, coaching skills and the teamwork necessary for growth.
Having worked with several companies throughout their growth cycle, we have valuable insights and strategies that would help any late stage startup, small or medium sized company achieve sustained growth and prosperity.
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