How To Demonstrate Leadership At Work

Just because you don’t have a title, doesn’t mean you’re not a leader. But if you want to someday gain that title, and the position of team leader or manager, then there’s a dilemma you’ll have to reconcile. You’ll have to be able to demonstrate leadership at work to the people who make promotion decisions, without having had a leadership role to point to.

But working on any team creates leadership moments that you’ve probably seized upon in the past, you just may not have known about them. Or, you may not have recognized them.

So in this article, we’ll outline five ways to demonstrate leadership at work so that you can recognize those moments, act on them, and use them to make the argument on why you’re the leader people are looking for.

0:00 Introduction
1:10 Take Responsibility
2:20 Include Others
3:34 Speak Up
4:54 Ask Questions
5:55 Deliver
7:05 Conclusion

These five activities aren’t just about being noticed during leadership moments, they’re also about gaining news skills by creating your own leadership development program. That will give you something to talk about in an interview, but more importantly it’ll give you new tools that will help you work better. And you’ll become a leader, even without a title, who helps the whole team do their best work ever.

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//ABOUT DAVID
One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever.

He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, Burkus has been ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and even the US Naval Academy.

A former business school professor, Burkus holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology from the University of Oklahoma, and a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University.

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[jasper]

You are a fantastic communicator. Great advice. Really liked the term "Leaders are ladders". Thanks so much David.