Lateral Leadership

What opportunities for lateral leadership exist in your current professional role?

After watching this week’s videos and reviewing the course materials, consider how you would improve your approach to getting support for your initiatives in situations where you don’t have management authority.

Post your initial response by Wednesday, midnight of your time zone, and reply to at least 2 of your classmates’ initial posts by Sunday, midnight of your time zone.

respond 1

 Yalanda Edwards RE: Week 7 Discussion

The opportunity for lateral leadership in my current professional role occurs when I can advise college students on the importance of the journey they have taken on. I recently change work careers from being an office manager in manufacturing to administrative assistant to Dean of Education at a college. This transition is a lot different from what I have been use to yet a lot more rewarding. The lateral leadership now is talking with young people making sure they understand this education journey they are taking will be challenging, but the reward will come.

There is a lot of support education; the problem exists when trying to bring all or most of the resources together improving on getting support for initiatives in situations where management can also help with supplies. The problems come when attempting to get everyone on the same page. We tend to have the same goals in mind; just reaching the target the same way is the problem.

Ideas to getting support:

1. Give Subtitles for research
2. Creating teams
3. Bring teams together for brainstorming
4. Define an ultimate reachable goal

Article I found interesting:

Five winning strategies for Lateral leadership

Published on April 24, 2014

Chihttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140424064618-21659755-5-winning-strategies-for-lateral-leadershipef Control Officer, Digital HSB

References:

Welch, J.: Chapter 18: Hard Spots

 Huffman, E.: 7 Tips for Managing Sideways

Prentiss, B.: Lateral Leadership: Tips for Leading Colleagues Even If They Don’t Report to You

respond 2

We are talking this week about working relationships and ways to make our relationships with coworkers more productive and efficient.  We have to make sure, as Jack says, that you have the most capable and highly developed people on your team. This encompasses more than technical knowledge and capability. It encompasses the ability of the team members to interact well with each other and contribute to the work of the organization. It also includes the concept of lateral leadership which is the ability to influence those with whom you work without occupying a position of formal authority.

The article below offers a unique perspective on this mandate.