Your ability as a leader to develop powerful relationships--both within your company and with those outside it--will be fundamental to your success. Although all the keys are important, you have three additional Unique Relationship Challenges as a leader.
Related Articles
As a business leader, you depend on relationships to get most of your work done and you face some unique relationship challenges.
Focus on three significant relationship challenges that are critical to your success:
- Staying true to yourself
- Managing multiple types of relationships
- Installing a culture that promotes powerful business relationships
Your ability as a leader to create and develop powerful relationships has been and will be fundamental to your success.
The transition from manager to leader is often not an easy one. It requires you to move from the tactical to the strategic and from managing a process to motivating and aligning people around a vision and strategy.
This transition requires new leaders to see themselves differently.
Source: Sallie Sherman: Five Keys to Powerful Business Relationships: How to Become More Productive, Effective and Influential.
Other self-coaching leadership books:
Can't Get Enough Leadership
Ask the Coach
