The Leader Learner Podcast S03E04 The Create Your Leadership Episode
Nov 1, 2023
55:27
Check-In:
- Do you like to be used or second hand items?
Big Ideas:
- Is leadership working? Does leadership training work?
- Training cannot be done outside of the context
- Consuming, Connecting, Creating
- Stopping our ways of being are habitual is more challenging than we thought
- We are emotional beings
- Embodiment of the ideas takes longer than a training
- Being intentional about practicing the ideas we learn in the training - take the pause and creating a support system
- Sense of personal responsibility of the individuals in training
- The treadmill and lack of control prevents people from implementing
- Top management not participating in training themselves - "I am a CXO, so I don't need training." This creates misalignment.
- Transparency around how we are learning
- Alienation of true selves when we go to work
- Measuring leadership
- Attribution errors - when we attribute success to one person, rather than multiple factors
- A record doesn't matter when you hire someone
- Being a good leader of yourself, to support other leaders
- What can I do today? Taking personal responsibility
- Imitation versus borrowing
- Reading books that make you think rather than telling you what to do
- Sometimes the expert is wrong - we can't always take someone's formula and apply it to ourselves
- Process consultation - practicing on the spot
- Having multiple ongoing touchpoints throughout, or after a training is over
- Voluntary training or mandatory training? Does participation shift?
Resources:
- Less is More by Jason Hickel
- HBR - Why Training Fails and What to do About It (2016)
- The Financial Times - Success is more complicated than one exceptional individual (2023)
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