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How to identify the gaps in your own leadership style

Source | thenextweb.com | BRIAN HONIGMAN

A leader’s strengths and weaknesses directly inform how they guide others to thrive at work. The good always comes with the bad, as every leader has flaws that correlate with the skills that have led them to succeed in their career.

According to Lolly Daskal’s new book The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness, these shortcomings are referred to as leadership gaps as they can either prevent you from reaching your full potential or be leveraged to help you rise to the occasion as a boss, supervisor, executive or any other type of leader.

As the CEO and founder of Lead from Within, a leadership consulting firm, Daskal has first hand experience coaching hundreds of executives at companies worldwide.

Over the years, Daskal has identified patterns in the behavior of leaders to come up with a framework for determining the gaps in anyone’s leadership style.

Here are her best tips for figuring out what your faults are as a leader, so you’re better equipped to address them.

Declare what motivates you.

Your motivation as a leader is directly connected to your fears and the secrets you’re hiring internally. By being honest with yourself as a leader and understanding where you want to go in your career and life, you’ll be able to define your inner motivation.  

As Daskal shares, “Our character is constantly asking us to take a closer look at our deepest motivation.” Thinking about your past and truly understanding what motivates you is difficult, sometimes painful.

If you’re able to deeply analyze what drives you, the parts of your personality that you want hidden are more likely to come forward and help you better understand the deeply ingrained gaps that inhibit you.

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