We hear this again and again from our clients. They tell us how great they are as leaders, how they know what they are doing and that they are perfect in performing their roles.
Once the pinnacle of power in an organization, the trend over the past 10 years has been to reduce leaders to “Mr. & Ms. Nice Guy/Girl.”
While there are those organizations, traditional and entrepreneurial, that recognize leaders need to be developed and systems need to be in place to support high performance leadership, there are just as many who don’t.
Research shows that most leaders have been in the role for, on average, almost a decade before being trained on how to manage people.
Leadership, like parenting, is one of the few professions that requires little to no training or experience prior to being placed in or promoted into the role.
Given the lack of training for leadership roles, you’d think that its easy to one day just show up and lead. However, we know that is not the case. It is just magical thinking to believe that leaders will figure out on their own how to be effective without providing the training, experiences and development support.
The pendulum has swung from the autocratic leadership style of the past, to today’s new norm of highly permissive, ’empowering’ leadership approaches.
There’s a movement afoot in business that is increasingly prevalent and problematic. We call it the anti-authority movement.
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