Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

Louis Carter on How To Develop Yourself to Be a Great Leader

17 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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Louis Carter argues that wanting to be a great leader isn't enough without daily commitment to the work. In the 1980s, leaders hid coaching; today most CEOs have coaches and accountability partners. Real growth comes from recognizing your gaps and correcting mistakes the next day.

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The willingness and the desire to want to be a great leader is what drives great leadership. And if you're not willing, though, to do the work, and to work on how others perceive you, to work on what you need to do to get to that level of great leadership, it's not going to happen. And great leadership happens with consistent daily activities to develop your leadership activity and those around you to help you get there. Back in the '80s and '90s, nobody said that they had had a leadership coach. Nobody. None of the great leaders or CEOs said, I have a leadership coach. And still today, those great leaders in the '80s and '90s say the same thing. Today, you'll talk to a CEO and you're hard-pressed to find anyone to say that they don't have a leadership coach. Now, the question is, which of those CEOs or leaders and which of you are really committing to daily activities and accountability with another person to keep up on your leadership behaviors, is strengthening your leadership behaviors and acknowledging that you do have gaps and you're continuously learning every single day how to get better. And knowing I might have made a mistake yesterday, and that's fine. I can always get better the next day.