What Is Leadership? Part 2: Developing Your Personal Leadership

Lessons

1. 1What, How, Who: the three parts of personal leadership
   The What, How and Who model of personal leadership, and why it decides how the executive team reads you.3:40
2. 2The four leader types, and defining your role
   The four leader types and their blind spots, and the four parts of defining what your role is actually for.3:37
3. 3How you lead: the behaviors that make the role real
   Write down what success looks like in your role, then pick the two or three behaviors your directors will actually see.3:45
4. 4Who you are: identity, life outside work, perception
   How your traits, history and values shape your leadership at work and at home, and how others read the mix.4:20
5. 5Score yourself: the personal leadership quiz
   A twelve-statement self-assessment you score while you listen, and what your pattern says about how you lead.3:38
6. 6Encouragement, and your personal growth plan
   Why encouragement is an executive skill, and how to turn What, How and Who into one 30-day personal growth plan.3:25

All lessons are recorded.

How a lesson works

Each lesson is about five minutes, the slides with Andreas narrating, or audio only on your phone between meetings. It opens on one situation at the executive level, teaches one tool, and closes with your move: one thing to do before the next lesson. The full written lesson sits under the player, so you can read instead, or go back for the exact sentence you want to use.

Created and narrated by Andreas Pettersson. The narration uses an AI model of Andreas's own voice.

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