Leadership Discoveries #34: Leading Yourself: The Skill That Travels with You

What is Leadership Discoveries?

Leadership Discoveries™ explores how accomplished leaders exercise judgement, navigate complexity and create impact. Drawing on her experience as a senior executive, executive advisor and leadership scholar, I bring listeners inside candid conversations with CEOs, founders, board leaders and innovators. Together we explore the decisions, experiences and leadership thinking that shape organisations, careers and performance. Leadership Discoveries is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your favourite podcast platform.

Episode #34

In this special solo episode, Host Shirley Kavanagh explores the skill of leading yourself. Hear why we don’t spend nearly enough time on self-leadership, why leaders stall, how to choose growth over the comfort of the familiar, how to exercise bravery & openness as a leader, and how to keep learning throughout your career.

Here's a small sample of what you will hear in this episode:

• How do you lead yourself through change?

• How do you let go of your old self for new growth?

• How do you make conscious choices for your leadership journey?

• What are the practical demands of self-leadership?

• How do you avoid referring back to your old organisation?

Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn.

Check out the episode and show notes below.

Show Notes

Leading Yourself: The Skill That Travels with You

• [0:27] Welcome back to Leadership Discoveries!

• [0:43] Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn

• [1:30] Leading ourselves through change

• [2:05] Your capacity to be a beginner again

• [3:04] Letting go of the old self for new growth

• [4:27] The practical demands of self-leadership

• [5:08] Making conscious choices for your leadership journey

• [7:21] Avoid referring back to your old organisation

• [7:50] Tend to it, grow, be brave, stay open

• [8:14] Connect with Shirley at ShirleyKavanagh.com and on LinkedIn

• [8:18] Subscribe to or Follow Leadership Discoveries on your favorite podcast platform and leave a rating and/or review for the show