(92b) You're Only a Leader If Someone Is Following

Leading teams of professionals?scientists, engineers?can be a challenge. We are by nature skeptical and sometimes resist authority. While once you were the expert, now you are leading a team of experts. If you are charged with creating a following, consider these questions:

What do you value in your own leaders? Why does your team follow you? How do you picture yourself as a leader? Are leaders born or are leadership skills acquired, developed and refined? Can you stay focused, be inquisitive, and appreciate innovation?as others chart a course not necessarily your own?

This seminar will explore these questions, from the speaker's and the audience's point of view. Create your own outline of strategies and concrete personal actions to enliven, motivate and focus your team, whether or not you're the leader? this time.

Leaders get better with practice. Good leaders get great.