How much wisdom and great management and leadership sense can one person bring to us?
Well, if you’re Adam Bryant, author of The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership, the answer is a great deal! Adam was the guest/co-host for Leadership Caffeine Jam Session #22 where he generously shared his ideas and offered thoughts on the questions and comments from our active audience!
If you’ve not met Adam, he’s a featured writer for strategy+business, the author of the column The Corner Office for the New York Times, a principal with ExCo Partners (an executive coaching firm), and an author of two of the best management books I’ve read in the past decade. (Along with Leap to Leader, Adam coauthored The CEO Test: Master the Challenges that Make or Break All Leaders with Kevin Sharer in 2021.)
Yeah, I’m a big fan of Adam’s!
You can watch the replay and download the mind map and the anonymous chat stream by visiting our Leadership Caffeine Jam Session Archive page and scrolling down to Session #22.
Just a few highlights/topics that you’ll walk away with:
- Why one of the most important questions you need to ask yourself (and answer) is: “Do you really want to lead?”
- Why the “Leap to Leader” is much/mostly a mindset shift and what this entails.
- Audience and Adam’s insights on a cool question: “What if employees could choose their manager and switch teams at will. What kind of manager would most people choose?”
- Why you need to get the people part first to manage and lead successfully.
- How to make the leap to leader without jumping off a cliff.
- Why it’s essential for success as a leader that you are clear about what you stand for! (And Adam’s recommended questions to ask/answer for this.)
- Why there’s a lot of “Fridge Magnet Poetry” on leading and how to cut through it.
- Why you need to help your boss succeed as part of your success plan.
- Why it’s essential leaders be aware of and prepare for our “Double Click” world.
- Why the best career advancement plan is to excel in what you are doing now.
- Why and how leaders “play in traffic” to get ahead.
- Tips for strengthening as a decision maker.
- What to do about that sticky note on your back that says, “Good at…, but…” and how to better manage the “but” portion.
Invest an hour in your professional growth (scroll to #22) and soak up the wisdom from Adam Bryant and our audience for this great Leadership Caffeine Jam Session!
