Balancing Multiple Roles as a Leader
37mIntermediate2018-07-30
Authors

Sara Canaday
Leadership Development Expert, Speaker, and Author
Course details
As a leader, you're expected to do more than just manage people. Your employees and colleagues look to you as a subject matter expert, a coach, an agent of change, and more. In this course, leadership expert Sara Canaday dives into the different roles leaders play—from manager to motivator—and shares strategies that can help you effectively balance them for greater success. Discover how to assess what each of your leadership roles require and move seamlessly between each one.
Learning objectives
Explain why it is important for leaders to be subject matter experts.
Identify the primary responsibility of an agent of change.
Recall a good way to boost visibility as a company ambassador.
Name a strategy that one might use to become a true visionary.
Determine how much time should be spent in each leadership role.
Learning objectives
Explain why it is important for leaders to be subject matter experts.
Identify the primary responsibility of an agent of change.
Recall a good way to boost visibility as a company ambassador.
Name a strategy that one might use to become a true visionary.
Determine how much time should be spent in each leadership role.
Skills covered
Leadership SkillsLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Leaders balance multiple roles
1. Analyzing a Leader s Competing Roles
- 02 - Understand the context
2. Defining the Diverse Roles of Leadership
- 03 - Leader as manager
- 04 - Leader as subject matter expert
- 05 - Leader as coach
- 06 - Leader as change agent
- 07 - Leader as motivator
- 08 - Leader as ambassador
- 09 - Leader as visionary
3. Balancing the Roles of Leadership
- 10 - Strategies for leadership success
Conclusion
- 11 - Next steps