Title: How to Grow as a Leader | Center for Creative Leadership
Headings: How to Grow as a Leader
How to Grow as a Leader
Learn to Lead Through Developmental Assignments
3 Truths About Growing as a Leader
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Content: But if your goal is to grow as a leader while you’re in your current job, you may need to temporarily make the time to take on more. Seek challenges outside the workplace. Other areas of your life often provide the same challenges found in job settings. You’ll find plenty of leadership responsibilities in nonprofit, religious, social, and professional organizations, as well as schools, sports teams, and family life. There are many opportunities to learn lessons of leadership through personal experiences, and even hardships. Developmental assignments give leaders the opportunity to ignite their “growing edge,” where deeper knowledge is discovered and new capabilities are honed as you use experience to fuel your development. Without those experiences, leaders continue to rely on a narrow set of skills and limit their career potential. 3 Truths About Growing as a Leader
As you explore developmental assignments to help you succeed as a leader, remember these 3 important truths about leader development: Effective leaders continue to develop their repertoire of skills throughout their careers. To be effective in a wide variety of leadership roles and situations, you have to master new competencies.