Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader

Leadership Links with Learning

Integrated leadership develops from learning and from building competencies in each of the domains of self, others, and work. Integrated, emotionally intelligent leaders are open and positive, flexible and adaptable. They allow themselves to be vulnerable: to seek help when they need it and to admit what they don’t know.

You won’t develop your emotional intelligence if you remain closed to new ideas or are afraid of admitting your own lack of knowledge. There is a fluidity in leadership that comes from being able to move between knowing and not knowing, between being an expert and being a learner. Although you need good judgment, you must let go of being judgmental, righteous, and rigid. Instead, respect and interact ...