Learning To Lead

Focused on learning to lead? Are you seeking a LEADERSHIP position? Perhaps you’re looking for that promotion or perhaps you’re struggling with your “leadership style.” Or maybe your boss just said those magic words:

“It’s time to start demonstrating leadership.”

Whatever the case, leadership skills are in high demand and I believe everyone can master them.

(Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay)

This week’s Talk About Talk podcast episode focuses on “DEMONSTRATING LEADERSHIP”. In this episode we focus on how to communicate your leadership potential. In other words, learning to lead and how to incorporate leadership into your personal brand.

In this episode, you’ll learn 5 ways you can demonstrate leadership:

Be a PROACTIVE, Strategic Leader
Demonstrate PEOPLE LEADERSHIP
Create THOUGHT-LEADERSHIP
Communicate with CONFIDENCE
Talk LEADERSHIP

My challenge for you: consider these 5 suggestions, and then choose 1-2 and go hard.

Let’s look at #2: PEOPLE LEADERSHIP

Remember the best leader you ever encountered; how that leader made you feel? Were you energized? Inspired? Motivated? Encouraged? Supported? Challenged? You bet you were.

Leaders create environments where their people can flourish. They facilitate their people’s independence. They trust and delegate and they support their people. They also publicly celebrate individual and team achievements; acknowledging effort and outcome.

People leadership includes:

recognizing and deploying talent
delegating and allocating
coaching and mentoring, both formally and informally

Even if you don’t lead a formal team, you can still coach and mentor. You can still find ways to inspire, be a role model, set a good example. You could volunteer to lead a major project, a minor initiative, or even simply lead a meeting.

Beyond “People Leadership,” the other ways to DEMONSTRATE LEADERSHIP involve more individual leadership and drive. You need to develop these skills in yourself in order to succeed. I’ll explain more next week, but you can always dive into the episode now.

If you’re looking for more guidance on LEADERSHIP, please check out these previous episodes, focused on communication skills for leaders and on confidence (one of the 5 ways to demonstrate leadership):