You may believe yourself to be an excellent leader, respected by your peers and subordinates. Butare you really? Are you sure those around you perceive your actions the same way? Helena Dolny, editor of Team Coaching, makes a good case for leadership perception surveys in her latest Mail & Guardian column:
I suggested to a client that we do a leadership perception survey. She laughed — she didn’t see herself as a leader. In the conversation that ensued we explored how we are all leaders.
We lead ourselves, every day, in the way we are in our lives. It shows up in how we allocate time and effort to what we think is important: self-care, parenting, spirituality, professional development, work-life balance and so on.
Many of us also lead others. We may or may not be a managerial leader of employees. It may be that we are leaders in the way our children see us as role models. Or we may be leaders in our wider family. We may be leaders in our community or in our professional sphere.
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