The Many Faces of Leadership

SUMMARY

Do you see yourself as a leader, or do you think that's just a title that people have when they have a team that they have to tell what to do?

Well, stick with me because in this week's episode I want to help you understand that you are a leader no matter what it is that you do.

Leadership has the same principles that carry through no matter what time of the year or environment we're in. It doesn't matter if we are in the industrial age, the information age, the VUCA age, or the age of AI. What does matter is being able to take those skills and use them in the right context for what your people and yourself are experiencing at that particular moment.

This week, I will talk about the 3 areas of leadership, which are PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL and PEOPLE leadership and the 9 crucial areas within these three are going to help you to become the leader that I know (and hopefully, you know) that you can be.

Leadership is a set of internal characteristics of a person — the leader. Even if you're only leading one person, which is YOU, then you are a leader.

TRANSCRIPT

Do you see yourself as a leader, or do you think that's just a title that people have when they have a team that they have to tell what to do?

Well, stick with me because in this week's episode I want to help you understand that you are a leader no matter what it is that you do.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, VUCA Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around all things leading in this current environment by helping you to understand the many faces of leadership.

Leadership has the same principles that carry through no matter what time of the year or environment we're in. It doesn't matter if we are in the industrial age, the information age, the VUCA age, or the age of AI. What does matter is being able to take those skills and use them in the right context for what your people and yourself are experiencing at that particular moment.

Leadership is not a set of skills that you need just to tell people what to do to influence them and get them to go on the journey with you. There's a lot more to leadership than that.

In my experience, leadership is a set of internal characteristics of a person — the leader. Even if you're only leading one person, which is YOU, then you are a leader.

I talk about 3 particular areas of leadership and I want to introduce you to those today.

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP is all about YOU; it's about leading yourself.

In my experience, the person who I find the most difficult to lead most days is me. This is because I'm a human being who has uncertainties and beliefs.

The second area is PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP.

These are the leadership skills that you need to produce a result in whatever it is that you do. This can be your technical ability, the reason why you are in your particular career, or what your clients or your employer expects from you in a way that gives you the best possible results.

The third area is PEOPLE LEADERSHIP.

It doesn't start there. It starts with building the foundation of your own skills and leadership capacity. Then, it's a matter of transferring that knowledge and experience to the people who you are leading and taking on the journey with you.

I call them The 9 Crucial Shifts.

So, within your PERSONAL LEADERSHIP, which is all about leading YOU, are the 3 areas of transformation. These areas are in your identity, intelligence, and intention.

Within PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP, your ability to get stuff done from your own efforts are 3 transformational areas which are your Performance, your Positioning, and your Productivity.

The third area is PEOPLE LEADERSHIP. The 3 areas we want to work in this area are your Resilience, your Relationships, and your Results.

So, the 3 areas of leadership, which are PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL and PEOPLE leadership and the 9 crucial areas within these three are going to help you to become the leader that I know (and hopefully, you know) that you can be.

Over the next few weeks, we're going to unpack these shifts and I'm going to go deeper into each of them and give you skills that you can use straight away.

Join me again next week when we start working, going deeper into these 3 areas of leadership.

I'll see you then.