How Does My Team Perceive Me?
Coaching Real Leaders
Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins
4.8 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
As a leader, she has always tried to find a balance between being directive and collaborative. But she has also struggled to bridge the gap between how she sees herself – and how her team experienced her as a leader. Now she’s building her own start-up and wants to make sure she is seen as a strong, effective leader in that new venture.
Host Muriel Wilkins coaches this leader through how to understand and manage perceptions so she can be seen as a leader.
Further Reading:
- “Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence”
- “Listening Is an Overlooked Leadership Tool”
- “How to Change People’s Perception of You”
- “How to Ask for Feedback That Will Actually Help You”
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| 0:00.0 | HBR Presents |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Muriel Wilkins and this is Coaching Real Leaders part of the HBR Presents Network. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders is coaching real leaders part of the HBR Presents Network. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road. |
| 0:32.3 | My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them. |
| 0:41.7 | I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting, focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing. |
| 0:47.8 | Today's guest is someone will call Michelle to protect her confidentiality. |
| 0:52.2 | She has a PhD in physics, and she's bridged a gap between technical |
| 0:55.5 | know-how and management in the past. And she's now taken on even a bigger challenge, entrepreneurship. |
| 1:02.3 | Right now, her startup is small, but as she grows the organization, she wants to learn from past |
| 1:07.4 | leadership experiences and create the kind of workplace she believes can succeed |
| 1:11.9 | and be a good environment for everyone. I'm there to help people succeed. I don't want my team |
| 1:18.5 | to do, as I say. I think it's better to have everyone with their own opinion. And then getting |
| 1:24.9 | people, what I found is something, |
| 1:28.3 | sometimes when you lead in that way, |
| 1:33.3 | and then you put your leg down because something needs to happen, |
| 1:36.3 | then people get resentful. |
| 1:38.3 | I think there is a balance there in terms of leadership |
| 1:41.3 | that people want you to, strong leaders are able to create a situation |
| 1:49.2 | where people will follow them without resenting. And that's a struggle. So it's kind of getting |
| 1:54.6 | the, if you want the balance right. As she begins to grow this new company, she wants to get that leadership balance right, |
| 2:03.6 | the balance of being collaborative and supportive, while at the same time needing to be directive at times. |
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