‘Know It All’ In Leadership Is Off-Dated
Updated: Apr 28, 2022
Written by: Sílvia Fontquerni, Executive Contributor
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Have you ever felt that you needed to have more knowledge than your team members to be able to lead?
Have you ever felt the pressure of having to be constantly updated to know it all?
Have you ever thought that leaders need to constantly give direction and tell what to do to maintain their authority?
We currently live in the VUCA world, which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It describes the situation of constant and unpredictable change that businesses are constantly facing due to globalization. New and updated knowledge exponentially arise continuously. This means, that there will always be new information or knowledge that you may not know about, it means that there will always be someone knowing more than you, there will always be someone with more expertise. ‘Know it all’ in leadership is no longer sustainable, therefore, giving constant direction and orders of how to do the job is no longer viable.
How does it feel that you may not be the professional with more expertise?
How does it feel to be continuously off-dated?
How does it feel to be no longer the smartest brain in the room?
How does it feel that you may lose authority?
It may be challenging or not easy to accept, however, the world is changing and companies and leaders need to readapt their way of operating if they want to succeed or survive in this new world. Getting used to not knowing it all is a must. It is important to shift this challenge to an opportunity to readapt your leadership skills as well as business operation and culture to what the context requires. Knowing it all does not define your value as a leader, not being fully updated does not define your worth as a leader.
The choice is yours.
Sílvia Fontquerni, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Silvia Fontquerni is originally from a town near Barcelona currently working and living in London, UK. She is the founder of Silvia FF Coaching. She is currently creating a new program to help C-suite leaders (CEOs, business owners, directors and managers) operating in high-stress, high-pressure environments streamline and become peak performers. C-suit leaders’ program is being designed to reduce overwhelm, stress, fear and indecision, and step into high performance, bold confident, successful to become unstoppable professionals leading results. She understands the importance of aligning leadership roles with organizational culture, values, and goals. Therefore, is currently studying a master in HR/Learning & development and preparing herself to expand her business even further in leadership development & high-performance teams, organizational training, as well as helping executives and human resources to create high performance companies with strong ethics and integrity as well as valuing human potential to stand out from the market. She has been featured in magazines such as Leaders Global Today and Brainz Magazine where she was listed in Brainz CREA Awards Honoree 2021.
