Here’s to another year of building more skills and leveling up in your current role and organization. With all the uncertainty, opportunity, and change in the news – tech layoffs, mergers & acquisitions, recession, ChatGPT, ChatZero, consider adding the Four Leadership Stances to your leveling-up toolkit.
In the HBR article: The Power of Options: Always give yourself four ways to win, authors David Noble and Carol Kauffman share four ways to generate multiple pathways to a desired outcome, when to use them and when not to use them.
Research indicates that under stress (uncertainty, opportunity, change) most leaders go to their default leadership style. Instead, leaders need to recognize their default style and plan alternative ‘stances’ in which to lead.
Do you recognize your default leadership style?
1. LEAN IN (deciding, directing, guiding, challenging, confronting)
2. LEAN BACK (collecting data, analyzing, asking questions, delaying decisions)
3. LEAN WITH (empathizing, coaching, collaborating, encouraging)
4. DON’T LEAN (contemplating, being still, visualizing, breathing)
Read the article HBR article at: https://hbr.org/2023/01/the-power-of-options
