What Leadership Gaps Are You Taking Into 2025?

What Leadership Gaps Are You Taking Into 2025?

Every leader has areas for improvement—what we call “leadership gaps.” The secret to becoming a stronger, more effective leader lies in identifying these gaps and either bridging them or finding ways to work around them. Left unaddressed, even small gaps can expand, impacting a leader’s overall effectiveness.

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Are Leaders Born or Made?

Please listen to my interview below on leadership on the Straight Outta Health IT podcast with Christopher Kunney. It’s also available directly on Apple and Spotify.

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Transforming Your Leadership Potential

Watch Professor Bennett’s interview with Grant McGaugh, CEO of 5 STAR BDM on how the Elite Leadership Academy (our sister site) uses data to help people become better leaders.

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Building Results-Oriented Leadership Development Programs

The retail pioneer, John Wanamaker, once stated, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half”. The chain of department stores he started eventually became part of Macy’s. Even in today’s digital advertising age, that statement is still true, with more than half being wasted according to some experts. The same is very true of leadership development programs.

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What TEAM Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?

In the last edition of the newsletter, we discussed individual leadership gaps and how they can impact your success as a leader. It’s important to identify and either fix or compensate for them. These gaps can either be small and fix with some ‘leadership caulk’ or large which may require some ‘leadership patch.’ Either way, it’s important for leaders at all levels to regularly evaluate and correct their leadership gaps.

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What Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?

Everyone has leadership gaps. The key to being or becoming a successful leader is to identify those gaps and either repair or compensate for them. These gaps can be small and repaired with some ‘caulk’ or huge needing ‘pothole repair compound’. If left unattended, a small gap can grow into a huge one for the leader. Do you know which one(s) you have?

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Weeding Out Toxic Leaders in Your Organization

Toxic leaders are like weeds in your garden or lawn. If you don’t remove them right away, they will infest your entire organization resulting in stifled growth, reduced morale and the departure of quality employees.

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Hunting for Toxic Leaders in Your Organization

Radar is used in several aspects of our everyday lives. It works by using electromagnetic sensors to detect, locate, track and recognize objects from a distance. Some common uses include:

  • Tracking weather patterns and storms by the weather service
  • Tracking and monitoring airplanes by traffic control
  • Tracking spacecrafts and other objects by NASA
  • Tracking friendly and enemy forces by the military
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Strategies to Retain Your Best Leaders in 2023

Organizations lose good people every year. In this current era of workforce disruptions, the losses can be even worse. The challenge for organizations is to minimize the loss of their best leaders. This has implications not just for the current year but could reverberate for years to come from an interruption of your leadership pipeline. There are two strategies organizations should deploy immediately to minimize the loss of their best leaders in 2023 and beyond, including:

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Use 2020 Foresight for Your Leadership Improvement in 2020

Don’t wait until this time next year to realize what you should have done to improve your leadership in 2020. At the end of each year, we tend to reflect on the goals we haven’t met or the achievements we didn’t make. Instead of having 2020 hindsight, use 2020 foresight and plan what steps you will take to improve your leadership in 2020.

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