S03E04 The Create Your Leadership Episode

Check-In:

• Do you like to be used or second hand items?

Big Ideas:

• Is leadership working? Does leadership training work?
• Training cannot be done outside of the context
• Consuming, Connecting, Creating
• Stopping our ways of being are habitual is more challenging than we thought
• We are emotional beings
• Embodiment of the ideas takes longer than a training
• Being intentional about practicing the ideas we learn in the training - take the pause and creating a support system
• Sense of personal responsibility of the individuals in training
• The treadmill and lack of control prevents people from implementing
• Top management not participating in training themselves - "I am a CXO, so I don't need training." This creates misalignment.
• Transparency around how we are learning
• Alienation of true selves when we go to work
• Measuring leadership
• Attribution errors - when we attribute success to one person, rather than multiple factors
• A record doesn't matter when you hire someone
• Being a good leader of yourself, to support other leaders
• What can I do today? Taking personal responsibility
• Imitation versus borrowing
• Reading books that make you think rather than telling you what to do
• Sometimes the expert is wrong - we can't always take someone's formula and apply it to ourselves
• Process consultation - practicing on the spot 
• Having multiple ongoing touchpoints throughout, or after a training is over
• Voluntary training or mandatory training? Does participation shift?

Resources:

• Less is More by Jason Hickel
• HBR - Why Training Fails and What to do About It (2016)
• The Financial Times - Success is more complicated than one exceptional individual (2023)

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