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: 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. Instead of always relying on a limited set of natural capabilities, you must become well-rounded. This development of a repertoire of skills is a gradual, continuous process. A significant part of leader development occurs through practical experiences. You learn through on-the-job learning when your day-to-day responsibilities and challenges require it — and when you have the opportunity to engage in experiences, draw lessons and insights from those experiences, and apply the new knowledge and skills to the next experience. The more varied the practical experiences, the greater the likelihood of developing a broad repertoire of leadership skills.