It’s good to pause at this point and remind ourselves of the fact that any body of knowledge, including leadership development, has three aspects to it.
There are the cognitive aspects — the things you need to know in order to be a good leader. There’s the attitudinal aspects — the attitudes you need to carry with you in order to be a good leader. And there’s the behavioral aspects — those things you need to do in order to be a good leader.
This blog with its posters will be effective at giving you the cognitive aspects. You will know a lot about leadership when you read many of these posts. The attitudinal and the behavioral pieces require a different development path in order to be put into place. Ideally, meeting with a mentor will help you put the attitudinal and the behavioral pieces together. Meeting with someone you respect and trust who can give you feedback on how you’re coming across will help you put the attitudinal and behavioral pieces together.
That may include being involved in a 360-peer review, where you get a 360 anonymous survey from those people around you. You can use the self assessment on this blog for that purpose. The results tell you not how you want to come across, but how you are coming across/how you’re being perceived. That is very powerful in changing our attitudes and our behaviors when the effect of our behaviors does not equal the intent of our behaviors.
The limitations of this blog is that it is only going to be able to give you the cognitive aspects of this body of knowledge. You will learn what a leader is. You will learn about leadership. You will not become a leader by only focusing on the cognitive aspects of this content.
Consequently, I encourage you to combine the reading of these blog posts with feedback from someone you can trust — a model, a mentor, someone who will give you honest feedback based on their perception of you. That will close the gap on the attitudinal and the behavioral components.
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