Defining and Adapting Your Leadership Style

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Suzanne Peterson, associate professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management, says many talented professionals get held back from leadership roles because of relatively intangible reasons. She argues aspiring managers can intentionally alter their everyday interactions in small ways to have a large influence on their professional reputation. She explains how to adopt markers of different leadership styles to be seen as both influential and likable. Peterson is a coauthor of the HBR article “How to Develop Your Leadership Style: Concrete Advice for a Squishy Challenge.”

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0:16.0	Women at Work wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish. There's a roadblock many people run into at work. They get the feedback that they're not ready for a promotion or a new project and when they why, no one puts a finger on it.
0:55.3	They're missing a certain something, something intangible, which, to be honest, is not very
1:00.6	helpful.
1:01.9	But it's common that when it comes to leadership to identify leaders
1:05.3	that it's a bit squishy. For too many superiors, leadership is a vibe that someone gives
1:11.0	off and some people show it much better than others.
1:14.7	Our guest today has some advice for this situation.
1:17.7	How to know your own leadership style, how to understand how others see it or don't, and then how to
1:23.7	other see it or don't, and then how to change your behavior
1:24.6	so that you can break through to the next level.
1:27.6	Suzanne Peterson is an associate professor of leadership
1:30.6	at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.
1:34.8	She's also a partner at the consultancy CRA and she's the co-author with Robin Abramson and
1:40.8	RK Stuttman of the HBR article How to Develop Your Leadership Style.
1:46.0	Concrete advice for a squishy challenge.
1:48.9	Suzanne, thanks for coming on the show.
1:50.8	Thanks so much for having me, Kurt.
1:52.1	Happy to be here. Does that situation I just
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