INSIGHTS: April 2025 Leadership Strategy Session
Shifting Identity: Manager Mode vs. Executive Mode 🎥
🔒 Important Update About LSS Recordings: After thoughtful consideration, we've decided to make our Leadership Strategy Sessions non-recorded moving forward. We've observed that some of our most valuable conversations happen when participants feel free to discuss sensitive leadership challenges. Creating a confidential space where leaders can speak openly about complex situations will allow for deeper, more authentic conversations that benefit everyone.
Please note that our Monthly Momentum Calls will continue to be recorded as usual, so you'll still have access to those session replays.
Thank you to everyone who joined our April Leadership Strategy Session. As we transitioned into the second quarter of 2025, we explored how leadership identity affects team dynamics, with a particular focus on the critical distinction between manager mode and executive mode.
This month's session was particularly rich with heartfelt discussions around leadership transitions, international collaboration challenges, and adapting leadership frameworks to personal relationships. Here are some of the key insights we explored:
Manager Mode vs. Executive Mode: The critical differences between these two leadership approaches and how to consciously shift between them. (Video clip available for paid subscribers below)
Navigating Strategic Change Decisions: Identifying clear "tripwires" that signal when to make significant pivots in uncertain environments, especially when facing unprecedented challenges.
Stepping Into New Leadership Identity: Processing transitions when moving into expanded roles, including the emotional complexity of growth that comes through loss or change.
Making the Obvious Explicit: Why over-communicating expectations and intentions is rarely a problem, but under-communicating almost always is, both in professional and personal contexts.
Applying Team Habits in Personal Life: How frameworks like ownership postures, communication practices, and conflict resolution can transform challenging family dynamics during stressful situations.
Creating Safe Spaces for Authentic Leadership: Balancing transparency with confidentiality to foster environments where honest and sometimes vulnerable conversations can flourish.
Premium subscribers can find the brief segment on Manager vs. Executive Mode below. 👇🏽
Paid subscribers have access to two monthly calls — Leadership Strategy Sessions and Monthly Momentum Calls.
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