Defining Middle Leadership Middle leadership is a unique leadership construct including the leadership responsibilities, behaviors, and competencies required by middle managers to perform as leaders in the middle of the organizational hierarchy (De Nobile, 2018; Kieran et al., 2020; Pavlopoulos, 2020; Thornton et al., 2018; Wei, 2018). Middle leadership – or “leading from the middle”…
Author: Dr. Julie C. Armstrong, DSL
Coaching Essentials
Coaching, as a professional domain, is an emerging area of practice. In fact, there is no single agreed upon definition of professional coaching, though most scholars and practitioners generally agree it focuses around some form of “professional development, growth, change, or thriving” (Boysen-Rotelli, 2018, p. 2). According to Boysen-Rotelli (2018), effective coaching is a transformational…
Hybrid Leadership Competencies … or Hybrid Leadership Structures?
Because my doctoral dissertation focused on leadership competencies, I am often asked: What are the new competencies/skills that leaders need in this new hybrid environment? I’ve actually been pondering a twist on this question. What if it’s not a new set of leadership competencies that are needed for effective hybrid leadership, but rather, a new…