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7 Tips for Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Leading Blog

Even as a seasoned expert, you’re human and not immune to bad days or learning curves. Mistakes can indicate that you need to prioritize, delegate, or take a break. Learn to identify it and engage strategies to overcome it such as using your network to become an insider. Perfection is Slow Death.

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Situational Leadership® and DiSC®: Managing the “High D” (DOMINANCE)

The Center For Leadership Studies

May have a tendency to overestimate skill level and underestimate learning curve; will actively dive into the learning process. DO NOT — Lose focus, get sidetracked or prematurely delegate. DON’T — Get “hooked” or become defensive. R2 — Unable and Confident/Willing. S2 — High Task/High Relationship Behavior.

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Corporate Innovation Through Daring Personal Disruption

Lead Change Blog

No more steep learning curves, no extreme challenges – just another day at the office. You may get bored or arrogant at the top of the curve. For people, it’s time to jump onto a new learning curve to stay fresh and engaged. At the top of the curve, you encounter the innovator’s dilemma.

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Four Examples of Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

And I view my role in the short term is to ensure you start out (and stay) on the right track through the inevitable learning curve that goes along with taking on new things.” If you were the manager here, how would you respond to that question?” “Of Contact us today to learn more. All four work, and all four don’t!

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7 Actions Which Can Quickly Cripple A Leader

Ron Edmondson

Refusing to delegate. I have had more than one hard learning curve in this area. Leadership isn’t needed if we simply manage status quo. I’ve always been pretty good at delegating. Understanding these and disciplining ourselves to avoid them can make us better leaders. Too many changes at one time.

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Stop Micromanaging and Learn to Delegate

Harvard Business Review

You've gotten feedback from your manager as well as word of rumblings within your team: You're seen as a micromanager who tends to get into the weeds — and stay there. You produce great results but senior management sees you as an operational manager and questions your ability to let go and operate at a strategic level.

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Striking the Right Tone: Things to Say in a Performance Review

HR Digest

With an overreliance on positive phrases and an absolute paranoia about anything that could be construed as negative, it might be the right time to help managers out with some useful things to say in a performance review. It might be useful to work on task delegation a little more.