Sue Ashford is a professor in management and organization at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include leader effectiveness and development, issue selling, self-management and feedback processes in organizations.
Are you keen to step up to a leadership role but worried you aren’t quite ready? Sue suggests that everyone has leadership potential, and you learn leadership mostly from experience. But if you’re racing through your experiences mindlessly, you could be missing out on a lot of learning. By mindfully engaging in your experiences, and being open to growing, developing your skills and getting feedback you can be more effective at learning leadership skills.
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