Becoming a Leader When Everything Is Shifting

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Equality, Human, Resources, Business/management, Workplace, Careers, Management, Hbr, Entrepreneurship, Harvard, Business/entrepreneurship, Business, Gender, Women, Progress, Business/careers

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How can you be seen as a leader, especially when you’re not even “seeing” the people you work with? We revisit an interview with two leadership development experts — essential listening for any woman who’s ready to step up — and share an update on how their advice applies in the context of remote and hybrid work.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:27.0	Once you've decided to go after a leadership role,
0:30.0	taking the necessary steps can seem intimidating, even daunting.
0:35.0	Especially when everything, our work, our world,
0:40.0	is in this constant state of flux.
0:43.0	And so I've seen quite a few pause around whether they actually want to do that in this moment
0:50.0	because it's yet another change.
0:52.0	That's Muriel Wilkins, who runs a leadership development firm with Amy Jen Sue.
0:57.0	They've been coaching women through the crises and turning points of the last many months,
1:02.0	including the great resignation.
1:04.0	It's the perfect time to go to your boss or a mentor or someone in the organization
1:09.0	and say, I recognize there's some attrition here.
1:12.0	How can I help? How can I contribute?
1:14.0	How can I continue to spread my wings and be a benefit to the organization?
1:18.0	So recognize the opportunity exists and really go try to seize that.
1:23.0	Amy and Muriel gave advice for seizing a leadership opportunity in our 2019 episode,
1:28.0	seeing ourselves as leaders.
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