Many of the role models for leadership that we see from an early age usually came with the power to enforce their will :parents, teachers, clergy, military superiors and for most of us in business, superiors who had more than a little discretion over the arc of our careers had titles such as “director”, vice-president or “officer.”
A blog post at Ideas.TED.com points out “if you want to someday gain that title and a 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 to the people who make promotion decisions — without having had a leadership role to point to.”
Leading without authority or delegated power is challenging for new managers. If you have young leaders in your organization who complain about lack of authority when trying to lead, share 5 Ways to show you can lead- even when you don’t have a leadership role.”
