As a leader, you want to be effective – to get results and empower your team. You want to be friendly and approachable...but also authoritative and respected. You try to lead on a macro level, but find yourself slipping into micromanagement from time to time. You want to be relational and yet hold people accountable.  If you’ve experienced these tensions, you’re not alone. Dealing with these leadership tensions is a necessary part of developing your leadership style and increasing your self-awareness. The more you recognize the natural tensions that go along with your leadership role, the better off you will be relationally with your team and you will accelerate your ability to make efficient and effective decisions.

• Identify the 10 tensions of leadership.
• Describe effective and efficient decision making as it relates to natural tensions of the leadership role

Neil Ihde, Life IQ
Neil Ihde is a professional speaker and founder of Life IQ where he motivates groups and individuals to work, play, relate and live intelligently. Neil has worked with over 30 Fortune 500 companies including Nike, Domino's, AT&T, and Transamerica. Neil recently achieved the goal of speaking in all 50 states. He is a TEDx speaker and his Life IQ YouTube channel is approaching a million views. He is originally from Parkersburg, Iowa, and relishes every chance he gets to come back to his home state. Neil and his wife Deb have two children and live in Appleton, Wisconsin.