Adapting your leadership style to build trust

Duration: 20 minutes

Learning objectives: How to adapt leadership styles to different situations and build trust

Credit CPDEx:1.0

Tag(s) Self, English, Video, Conference, Level 5, Level 6, Sales Leader (second line +), Customer Experience, Change Management, L5L1, L6L1

Adapting your leadership style to build trust

Description

Recommended audience

Sales Management & Leadership Professionals
Account Directors
Head of Sales
Sales Directors

Type of audience

English-speaking UK and International

Description

Chris describes the leadership journey he has been on for the last 24 years, from being a junior officer in the Royal Marines to a senior military advisor on Afghan Strategy in Whitehall to supporting global corporates.

Chris uses these experiences to explore concepts like having a growth mindset, how to be a vulnerable leader, how leadership styles change with context and how to allow the people you lead to feeling like they have a say in what happens.

Key takeaways

How to use freedom in a framework to unlock productivity
How to be vulnerable without losing control
How to lead in different situations

CPD Points

CPD Points: One

Presenters

Chris Paton – Managing Director, Quirk Solutions

A published HBR author, Chris is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Marines and was an advisor to the Cabinet Office on the Afghan strategy.

He is now the Managing Director of Quirk Solutions, working with large brands such as Qinetic and Waitrose as well as SMEs, to pressure test their plans, improving foresight and identifying risks.