This is part three of my weekly series on the Digital Leader Canvas — a free self-assessment framework with 11 dimensions of leadership. If you're new here, you can download the canvas and catch up: https://www.digital-leader-program.de/en/digital-leader-program-digital-leader-canvas
This week we're looking at Quadrant ② — Leadership Style. The canvas asks:
What are my values? How can I become more flexible in my leadership? In which situations should I lead differently? When should I tell more? When should I coach more?
Let's get into it.
I think every leader moves between two extremes:
On one end: telling. Giving answers, making decisions, directing. Some people call it bossing — I'll use that word too, because that's how it often feels to the person on the receiving end.
On the other end: coaching. Asking questions, guiding, handing over responsibility. Trusting the other person to figure it out.
Most leadership advice today tells you to move towards coach...
Around the end of the year we typically adjust our products to our transforming customer needs. We restructure and refocus. This has an impact on the words I am writing here since this will be our last newsletter article for some time.
In 2020-2022 Covid and its consequences for remote leadership were one of the biggest challenges for teams out there. Since 2023 the teams gradually changed to hybrid setups (what can mean many things…) These new challenges demand new solutions.
We are going to refocus our resources - away from online marketing and blogging more towards speaker activities at exhibitions (check out L&D pro online conference on March 19th). In 2025 we will head out from our beloved home market Europe and especially Germany and direct our attention a bit more towards the US.
We will combine our AI Chatbot, Knowledgebase, Leadership Framework, Workshop Series online Whiteboards and Membership into one concept that companies can buy all at once.
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