{"id":1435,"date":"2013-06-10T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-peopletekcoaching.pantheon.io\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2021-10-14T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:37:47","slug":"are-you-a-technician-or-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/2013\/06\/10\/are-you-a-technician-or-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You a Technician or a Leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Effective Leaders Develop Their\u00a0Skills<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When I was starting my professional career, I needed to develop my technical competencies in order to become proficient in the IT area I was hired for.<\/p>\n

After several years I learned the skills, abilities, and talents to be a very good technician, but I needed more! I wanted to lead people and realized I did not possess the skill-sets necessary to be an effective leader.<\/p>\n

Like so many other technicians, I was very good at my job as a technician, but when tapped for a leadership promotion, I was not ready.<\/p>\n

It is not uncommon to promote individuals that are great technicians, but is this optimal? Newly promoted leaders are not always provided with the tools, mentorship and development opportunities to be effective.<\/p>\n

Obtain Input<\/h3>\n

This is a process that may be done over time (and repeated annually), and there are various tools that will help address that input.\u00a0Some\u00a0areas you need to assess\u00a0are explained in our Leadership Compass<\/a>. These include how we make decisions, handle conflict, motivate and inspire others, and create and take action against our vision, mission and goals.<\/p>\n

The optimal situation is to have input from various sources; consider\u00a0colleagues, bosses, customers, vendor partners, and others. We sometimes cannot see ourselves and \u201chow we show up\u201d. It\u2019s weird because if others see us clearly, why can\u2019t we see ourselves?<\/p>\n

Often when we receive the feedback we feel badly. This is okay as it means we care about how we are perceived by\u00a0others, and that we\u00a0desire to do well, and are hopefully willing to change!<\/p>\n

Improve your effectiveness and levels of impact by having\u00a0and communicating clearly defined\u00a0vision, mission, and goals, and determine the behaviors needed for\u00a0the destination you\u00a0strive for. The Leadership Compass\u00a0will help.<\/p>\n

Contact\u00a0us<\/a> with your\u00a0questions or for a consultation. Start your Leadership Improvement Process now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Effective Leaders Develop Their\u00a0Skills When I was starting my professional career, I needed to develop my technical competencies in order to become proficient in the IT area I was hired for. After several years I learned the skills, abilities, and talents to be a very good technician, but I needed more! I wanted to lead people and realized I did not possess the skill-sets necessary to be an effective leader.[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[63,27,61,67],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-behaviors","tag-goals","tag-leadership-compass","tag-vision"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}