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Developing leadership skills as a High Performer
Many people are promoted into management because they become adept in the functional area they work in. However, this advantage can become a disadvantage in management.
Watch a video version of these tips, and explore how working with a leadership coach can help you become a more effective leader.
Here’s why:
1. As an Individual Contributor (IC), you excel if you know the subject matter well, and you do the work.
2. As as manager, you excel if you know communication and systems-thinking well, and you can enable other people to do the work.
1. As an IC, you are responsible for your own success.
2. As a manager, you are responsible for your team’s success, and your team is responsible for your success.
As a previously high-performing IC, if you don’t make the switch to becoming hands off of the controls and instead learn to train, encourage, coach, delegate, and be willing to let others fail/learn on your watch, you will either
A) become a micromanager nobody wants to work for
B) burn out/be miserable/overwhelmed
