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Becoming a Better Leader Part 4: Growing Leadership at All Levels
- Informal leaders, who lead through expertise and influence, are becoming increasingly important in modern organizations, shaping how teams work and influencing organizational changes.
- Effective informal leaders blend technical competence with strong organizational understanding, build coalitions, focus on team success, and shape culture through their actions.
- In digital enterprises, leaders need to value diversity, focus on outcomes, care about impacts, enable generalist skills, and promote inclusion and contribution.
- Creating opportunities for leadership growth involves radical delegation, giving decision-making authority to those closest to the work, and developing leaders who inspire owned efforts.
- Leadership development should focus on creating environments for innovation, supporting flexible work patterns, and enabling rather than controlling employees.
- Organizations with generative cultures that promote psychological safety are better at developing leadership capacity by welcoming new ideas and treating failures as learning opportunities.
- Transformational leadership involves individualized consideration, coaching individuals to discover solutions, providing regular feedback for growth, and offering stretch assignments.
- Measuring leadership development involves assessing how individuals handle challenges, grow in navigating complexity, collaborate, solve cross-functional problems, and promote team health.
- Leadership development should be an ongoing practice woven into daily work, using real challenges for development, creating forums for practice, and balancing adaptation with stability in digital transformations.
- Growing leadership at all levels in the organization involves identifying informal leaders, providing opportunities for leadership initiatives, supporting growth through mentoring, coaching, and modeling desired leadership behaviors.
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