Comments on: Get Your Leaders Blogging

By: Social Learning – It’s Free & It Works

Social Learning – It’s Free & It Works — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:28:25 +0000

[...] blogging adds another free vehicle to get managers talking with peers about leadership. Check out Shaun’s post on this and the new Between Leaders blogging community. Convert to [...]

By: Preventing Career Derailment For Less Than $10

Preventing Career Derailment For Less Than $10 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:10:04 +0000

[...] thoughts and ideas. You can use any notebook as a learning journal, or you may even choose to keep it as online blog. There are many ways a learning journal can help managers to become better leaders. Yet, when it [...]

By: Christel Steinvorth

Christel Steinvorth — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:28:17 +0000

I think expressing, with authenticity, what one believes can make anyone a better leader, whether this is done orally or in writing. There also could be an advantage to blogging and that is that, if done systematically, it could well be a way of promoting more reflection and learning for the leader herself/himself -at least under the assumption that writing might take a bit more reflection than “talking”. One way or the other, what is essential for me is that a leader cannot lead unless what he/she stands for is known by others. In this regard, blogging might also be a good venue for becoming better leaders for those who, under the Myers Briggs, show preference for being introvert rather than extravert. According to the Myers Briggs, extraverts think through issues by talking whereas introverts prefer to think before they say something. For this reason, some would argue that it is easier to be a leader if you are an extravert. It is important, however, to keep in mind that the Myers Briggs typology is about “preferences” rather than “habilities” and thus one can have introverts who are masters at expressing themselves orally. All the same, it occurs to me that blogging would be a good practice for letting the “leader” shine more often, perhaps, in introverts. Last, but not least, it also seems to me that blogging has the great advantage of enabling leaders to put out a consistent message to more people: if blogging is considered as a type of journaling, then, in a sense, blogging might be deemed as a way of holding “one to one” conversations, at once, with many, i.e. with all those who could be reached by the blog.

By: Cathy Pales

Cathy Pales — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:39:25 +0000

Blogging would be beneficial to leadership development if it was used as a vehicle for honest self-reflection. The most effective leaders take time for daily reflection and a blog could serve as a way to do that. From a growth perspective, a blog could be a good way to float ideas and generate discussion.

By: Sylvia Warren

Sylvia Warren — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:40:56 +0000

Oops! Website link correction for my comment.

By: Sylvia Warren

Sylvia Warren — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:39:39 +0000

Sharing valuable content about leadership through blogging also can connect you with thought leaders whose expertise compliments your own. Readers’ perception of you as a leader naturally is enhanced by these elevated thought leader associations. Of course, these connections need to be authentic. They fall short when they do not come from a genuine affinity for particular thought leaders. After all, who you are as a person is you are as a leader and that’s in part what blogging gives readers a better sense of…how they can relate to you as a leader who learns.

By: Paul Andrew

Paul Andrew — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:43:07 +0000

I believe it can Shaun, for those who are willing to learn the lessons that broadcast communication tools hold for leaders. I wrote an article last month called What Twitter Can Teach Leaders based on some of those ideas…
Paul

http://www.theleadershipcoach.com/2009/what-twitter-can-teach-leaders-paul-andrew-executive-coaching-leadership-training/