Being a highly sensitive engineering leader during uncertain times

Being a sensitive leader is an asset that can sometimes feel like a weakness. Learn how to harness sensitivity to help others through the current period of industry volatility.

At work, being seen as sensitive can often be a criticism, unjustly pinning you with a label that can undermine your skills, talents, value, and contributions. It can perpetuate a false perception, ranging from underperformance and inefficiency, to weakness or being a pushover.

“Ideal” leadership traits often skew towards someone bold, brash, and confident. This subliminal expectation of leadership qualities can cause sensitive, yet highly qualified and capable, individuals to hold themselves back in their careers, convinced that they are “not leadership material”.

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