What kind of Leader do you Want to Be?

One of the most stressful parts of your job as a leader can sometimes involve managing and developing healthy relationships with your staff. For most of us, when we were climbing up the ladder as professionals, there were few leadership trainings, maybe a management review resource handed to us by our Human Resources Department if one existed, but we were not given any hands on training or individualized support for how to handle difficult situations with our staff or how to develop those healthy relationships.

A good place to start is looking at what kind of manger or leader you want to be. Think about a boss you admired or a mentor who seemed to have easy relationships with their staff. How would you describe their leadership style? Was it a more democratic stule where the door was always open and encouraged feedback and new ideas? Was it a transformational style that seemed visonary and expansive? Or could it have been a more matter of fact transactional style with lots of infomation requested and given? Thinking about what kind of leader you want to be starts with reflection and intention .

Our work can sometimes provide such a fast pace where we are in reactive mode much more than we are in a proactive mode. Putting out fires sometimes feels like the name of the game on a daily basis, but what if we were to carve out a few minutes of proactive time to simply ask ourselves the above questions around who we are and how we show up?

What if you could powerfully claim your own space, ideas and manner of leadership instead of just falling into a pre-porgrammed role and moving along at the expected pace. As a coach, I work on these things with you to find the unique leader in you!

Sandra