Your key responsibility as a leader

leadership Sep 22, 2020

What is your key responsibility as a leader? To have followers? Wrong! The correct answer: as a leader, you are supposed to create other leaders. Great leaders are always great because they create a lot of other leaders. 

This alone is an epiphany for many business leaders. However, here comes the next question:

What makes people grow into leaders? The answer: the mindset to constantly learn and develop themselves! 

I am constantly amazed that when I ask the question of how many people read at least one personal development book every three months, less than 10 percent raise their hand. Many do not even read one book per year. By the way, this includes many sales people as well, an area in which I recommend constant learning the most. 

Today, I have three short suggestions for raising the bar for leadership excellence in your organisation: 
  1. Create a personal growth plan for yourself: Commit to reading at least one book per month, plus video and audio courses.
  2. Share your newly acquired knowledge with your people. Set up lunch and learn sessions and the like. Make it fun for people to participate.
  3. Create a process to make it easy for your people to follow your footsteps and accelerate their growth journey themselves. Encourage them to set up “reading circles”, create a little library at your office, or the like. Ask your people for ideas, too.

Interested in becoming a better leader? Take a look at my coaching options. Click here.

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