Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders

CHAPTER 14

What Gets in Your People’s Way?

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

—VINCE LOMBARDI

Your people have essential work to do and important goals to achieve. Your ability to assist them in reaching those goals is important to them, to your organization, and to your future. As you develop and motivate them through leadership conversations, your purpose is to have them steadily become more competent in performing their current jobs and, ultimately, to acquire the skills to perform at the next higher level. The tools you can use to remove obstacles from your people’s growth path include training, mentoring, and coaching.

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