How to Become a More Resilient Leader
Resilience is our ability to respond adaptively to challenges. It’s what helps us get back up again, stronger, after meeting life’s hurdles, disappointments, and failures. It’s more than simply bouncing back from adversity or not breaking in the face of hardship.
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Authentic Leadership: What It Is, Why It Matters
Authenticity is the healthy alignment between internal values and beliefs and external behavior. Authenticity comes from finding your style and your way of leading — and making life decisions that reflect your ethics, values, and your personality.
Honing Leadership Skills for High-Potential Leaders of Color
"How do we make sure that organizations change in a way that is more than just a new face around the table?" And, "Does it really matter how different the people in charge are if an organization's strategy already takes race into account?"
How One Tiny Thing Can Change Your Day, Business and Your Life
I believe the answer is to do small tasks every day, developing a habit of consistency. This habit helps you maintain discipline and focus, which are essential for achieving your goals. Small tasks may seem insignificant but are the building blocks for bigger tasks.
12 Challenges New Managers Must Conquer
Struggling as a Manager? It’s tough to make the transition from an individual contributor who does the work well, to a leader who must continue to do the work plus lead others. Many first-time managers feel that no one understands what they’re going through and find themselves struggling as a manager. The numbers prove it: 20% of first-time managers are doing a poor job, according to their subordinates. 26% of first-time managers feel they weren’t ready to lead others to begin with. Almost 60% say they never received any training when they transitioned into their first leadership role. No wonder 50% of managers in organizations are rated as ineffective. To better understand the most common challenges of new managers and to help them overcome the difficulties of their new roles, we conducted a study to analyze the challenges of nearly 300 emerging leaders who took our training program for first-level managers, Maximizing Your Leadership Potential.
The Core Leadership Skills You Need in Every Role
These are the fundamental 4 leadership skills needed by leaders at every organization, regardless of role, industry, or location: self-awareness, communication, influence, and learning agility. Leaders at different levels of an organization face different challenges. But whether you’re an individual contributor, a firstline manager, a mid-level leader, a senior executive, or somewhere in between, there are 4 core leadership skills you need to focus on as you grow in your career. These are the timeless, fundamental skills that are needed by leaders throughout every organization — and they’re important regardless of role, industry, or location. But the way you address each leadership skill, and what you need to learn or emphasize around it, will shift and change as you move into higher levels in the organizational hierarchy and encounter new challenges. So what exactly are these foundational leadership skills? While there may not be a single definitive list of core leadership skills, at CCL, we call the leadership skills needed in every role and career the “Fundamental 4.”
