Unprepared for Leadership?

Congratulations, you’ve just been promoted to a management position. Now, what do you do?

You’re excited about your new role. But, also a little unsettled because you’re trying to figure things out as you go. Unfortunately, your preparation to step into a leadership role has been minimal to non-existent. Or, given the demands of your new role, not adequate. You haven’t gotten the training or coaching that would help you feel well prepared. Most of what you have to go on are the examples from the managers you’ve worked for or other leaders around you, which may or may not be good examples for you to follow.

Diana David struggled with the same dilemma. She’s a leader whose situation is featured in the new book from the Association for Talent Development, Work the Problem: How Experts Tackle Workplace Challenges. She had moved into a new leadership role in a new company and industry. She had poor leadership examples from her past experience. So, she was uncertain as she tried to figure out how to lead.  Diane inherited a team that was somewhat dysfunctional. She also had a performance issue with one of her employees and didn’t know how to address it. She struggled with what to do to resolve these issues.

Her problem?

Diana was focused on the wrong things. She misread the issues and failed to deal with them before getting out of hand. So, the problems with her team just kept getting worse rather than better. 

Like Diana, you find yourself in situations where your team is impacted by some of your leadership mistakes. As a result….

  • They don’t work together as a team.
  • Your team fell short on an expected goal.
  • The decisions you make sometimes come into question.
  • An employee is not thriving in her role and seems to be just putting in time every day rather than doing her best work.

These are leadership issues you’re all too familiar with. Allow them to linger, and you could also impact your future career potential. Problems don’t just go away by themselves.

How should you handle leadership situations such as these? 

What steps can you take right now to turn things around in leading your team?

In my coaching practice, I help leaders solve these issues and develop into great leaders that people love working for.

Get my take on solving these challenges that Diana, and you, often face.

Download an excerpt from my recommendations in the Association for Talent Development’s new book, Work the Problem: How Experts Tackle Workplace Challenges.

Vivian-Blade

She’s a woman on a mission, prepped and ready to help you create resilient leaders and a workplace that is poised to succeed. Having weathered her fair share of corporate and career crises of all sizes, Vivian Blade MBA, MBB, PMP, is a global leadership expert and thought leader who equips leaders with the resilience that inspires teams to recover quickly in the face of ongoing disruption and thrive in spite of insurmountable odds.

Vivian empowers leaders and organizations as a frequent keynote speaker for association conferences and in delivering transformative leadership development programs, executive coaching and consulting for corporations.

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