What does leadership training actually mean and how come so few people actually get it? It turns out organizations have been approaching leadership training all wrong. Here’s why everyone needs it!
For many decades we prioritized jobs over skills. If you had a degree in marketing and got a job as a marketing manager, then your career trajectory would be linear. You’d go from marketing manager to marketing director, senior director, VP, SVP, etc. Today, the trend is to focus on the skills you have and how those skills can be applied to a variety of jobs so that you can have more control over your career path.
In my new book, Leading With Vulnerability, I interviewed over 100 CEOs around the world and surveyed nearly 14,000 employees in partnership with DDI. The goal of the book was to explore the difference between being vulnerable in your personal life versus being vulnerable at work and how current or aspiring leaders specifically should approach vulnerability in the RIGHT WAY. But what does that mean and how do you do that?
Have you ever been vulnerable at work and had it backfire? For context, vulnerability is about doing or saying something at work that can potentially be used against you. It’s essentially exposing a gap that you have.