Balancing Attachments for Leadership Growth
Business Challenges: How can leaders foster the right mix of autonomy and dependence in employees? How can leaders use their formal power skillfully, without creating dependency while maintaining legitimate authority? How can leaders prevent the “helplessness” that many employees exhibit in uncertain times?
Nova Solution: Recognize that everyone has “attachments” to authority figures, including leaders themselves. The trick is in knowing how to use attachments skillfully rather than fight the fact that they exist. In this workshop, leaders learn how to work with employees’ needs to look up to them and depend upon them and balance those with employees’ needs for autonomy. They also examine how attached they are to their leadership role and how to use their formal power in reconfigured ways for professionalism and leadership.