Leadership Development Resources for Senior Executives

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Senior Executives tend to underestimate their impact on the staff

 

As leaders move up in the organization, their impact--and the skills they need to develop--changes in important ways.

 

Given the number of people we impact, it is critical that senior executives:

  • Cultivate self-awareness to reduce the gap between their intentions and their impact;

  • Reflect on their set-backs and challenges to enhance resilience;

  • Remember that their character will have an out-sized impact on the willingness of others to follow them;

  • Cultivate the leadership skills of those coming up in the organization behind them;

  • Learn to work with political appointees;

  • Create a climate of candor;

  • Foster innovation;

  • Leave a legacy by making the organization stronger;

  • Learn to manage managers, as executives are farther removed from the front lines; and

  • Continually improve their leadership skills, as those who stop learning inevitaby derail.

 

Character

 

 

Growing the Next Generation of Leaders

 

 

Dynamics with Political Appointees

 

 

Creating a Climate of Candor

 

  • The Leadership Challenge, by Michael Roberto
    Chapter 1 of the book Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer

 

Your Leadership Legacy

 


 

A Leader's Legacy

By James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

In this thoughtful book, the authors of The Leadership Challenge look at a wide range of leadership issues through the prism of how leaders can go about creating a lasting legacy.  Each chapter works well as a short essay on a key leadership topic, but also ties into the overall theme of how to create a legacy.  Covers such issues as demonstrating courage, earning and maintaining trust, creating a shared vision, seeking feedback, telling stories, dealing with dissenting views, empowering employees, and the importance of wanting to be liked.  Read Chapter 1.   Read More...

 

Fostering Innovation

 

 

Supervising Managers

 

Continual Learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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