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Would Your Team Choose You as Their Leader?

June 6, 2013 by Colin Gautrey

While reviewing a book proposal a few weeks ago, it struck me that here was another great missive working on the assumption that people get to choose their leader. It was suggesting that what you need to do to be a great leader is figure out why your followers are following you. Nice idea, but, certainly in the world at work, most of those decisions are taken by a higher authority. Followers just have to put up with it, unless they are in the rare and cherished position of being able to simply walk. And, don’t delude yourself that because you recruited said followers, they chose you. Most often, new hires choose the job, not the person holding the leadership position. Of course, that you are a brilliant and inspiring individual must have counted somewhere in the decision, but was probably not the critical factor. As you develop your ability to lead, and help others learn how to lead, here is a great question to stimulate Read More

Filed Under: Client Confidential, Executives, The Blog, Top 50 Tagged With: leadership

Leadership and Trust: Real Dilemmas

May 9, 2013 by Colin Gautrey

Successful leadership and trust go hand in hand. Unless you have the trust of your team and those around you, your leadership is likely to stutter and fail. Probably not a catastrophic failure — most will be able to get through. However, the risk of friendly fire is high and the casualties will begin to mount — on your side among the supporters you hope will be loyal. Despite this obvious truth, trust in many places seems to be conspicuous by its absence. The odd thing is that often, when you look deeper, you discover that the individual leader is actually an inherently trustable human being. So, what is going wrong? Why are they not able to develop the trust in their leadership which they are so clearly capable of?

Trust Dilemmas

I have a hunch that the majority of the time it is because they are suffering from the influence the Read More

Filed Under: Client Confidential Tagged With: building trust, leadership

How to Be a Leader: Vital First Steps

February 3, 2013 by Colin Gautrey

Hey, congratulations, you’ve made it. Now you are a leader, how does it feel? Exciting, a little daunting? Maybe you have been around a little while and are still feeling rather unprepared for the leadership task ahead. Then again, perhaps you have just landed a job with a new team and are still trying to decide how to lead them successfully. That’s okay, because as you learn how to lead there are always going to be times when you feel a little uncomfortable. And here I thought I would share a few ideas that may help you to make some Read More

Filed Under: Client Confidential Tagged With: leadership

If You Want to Learn How to Lead

January 31, 2013 by Colin Gautrey

...first learn what it means!

If you are new to leadership or have been a leader for a little while, you can improve your skills by investing some time in developing your own definition of leadership. Of course, there are lots of fine definitions brought to us by clever people, but it is only when you work on building your own definition that it really starts to sink in and make a difference. The difference, as well as the benefits, comes from learning what actions you can take which will be viewed as good leadership, and which behaviours may land you in trouble with your followers. Working on autopilot when Read More

Filed Under: Client Confidential Tagged With: leadership

Promotion Power Shifts

January 13, 2012 by Colin Gautrey

Congratulations, you have got a well-deserved promotion. Now what? May seem like a silly question because you are no doubt bursting with ideas, plans, and structural or strategic changes you are going to implement – and that is just the first 90 days! But before you rush in, pause for a moment to consider this. Read More

Filed Under: Client Confidential Tagged With: leadership, personal power

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