Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders

PART 1

THE HIGH-POTENTIAL CHALLENGES

Your challenge as a high-potential executive is to motivate people to pursue shared goals, even though their responsibilities vary widely. The image of an ideal leader has swung from the benevolent dictator in the Industrial Age to the servant leader in recent years. Yet those models merely flip-flop the dominant and supportive roles in the leader-follower relationship. When executives attempt to control rather than motivate people, or pander to them by abandoning their leadership prerogatives, they risk losing their people’s respect and allegiance—if not actually losing them as employees.

The leadership conversations model shows you how to engage in effective conversations that create connection and alignment ...