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Leadership in Action: Putting Some Life into Your Leadership
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Leadership in Action: Putting Some Life into Your Leadership

by Marian N. Ruderman, Patricia J. Ohlott
December 2000
Beginner
5 pages
18m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
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Fitting It All Together

Your whole life is filled with opportunities for developing your leadership skills. Developmental experiences don't happen only at work. Learning opportunities don't happen only at home or in your community. Information, skill, and practice can come from a variety of sources. The key is to identify your own developmental needs and then find sources both at and away from work that can support your achieving those goals. Those sources can be people or they can be tasks.

Once you have a developmental plan in place, you can use nonwork activities to fill developmental gaps. Off-the-job experiences can provide skill training, leadership practice, and emotional support. Integrating your experiences—on the job and away from work—is ...

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ISBN: 9781604914689