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Resolving the Biggest Issue Affecting Leaders: Self-Protective Fears

Resolving the Biggest Issue Affecting Leaders: Self-Protective Fears

Live on September 18, 2025
2:00 pm ET

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Overview

This event initially aired on August 21, 2024. We are rebroadcasting it based on customer requests.

Some of the most common leadership issues include micromanagement, lack of vision, poor decision-making, ineffective communication, and resistance to change. Not only are these issues common, but they ultimately resign business units and entire organizations to mediocrity. Do you see any of these issues in your organization?

While these issues surely have arisen in your organization, here are two questions that are vital to consider:

  1. Do you have a clear understanding of why leaders so commonly struggle with these issues?
  2. And, do you know what to do about them?

 

In this webinar, Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., will identify the root of most leadership issues – the self-protective fears and insecurities leaders possess. For example, a central reason why leaders micromanage is that they are afraid of something not getting done right. A central reason why leaders aren’t more future-forward is that they are afraid of dropping the ball or not hitting certain benchmarks in the short term.

And more importantly, Ryan will discuss how you can help insecure leadership rise above their self-protective fears and insecurities so that they can transformationally become better leaders.

Here is why these two objectives are valuable: the fears and insecurities leaders possess ultimately put a ceiling on the effectiveness of the groups they lead. If we can help leaders rise above their fears and insecurities, we can dramatically elevate the effectiveness levels at which these groups operate at.

Attendees will learn

  • The role that self-protective fears and insecurities have in leaders’ effectiveness.
  • How to identify the primary and most common self-protective fears and insecurities that lead to leadership issues.
  • New tools and resources to be able to help you diagnose the primary and most common self-protective fears and insecurities that lead to common leadership issues.
  • A unique and cutting-edge development approach to help your leaders rise above the self-protective fears and insecurities that are holding them back
  • How to elevate your strategy for developing your leaders.
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Resolving the Biggest Issue Affecting Leaders: Self-Protective Fears

Presenter

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, and Leadership and The Elevated Leader: Leveling Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.

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This event is sponsored by HRDQ. For 45 years HRDQ has provided research-based, off-the-shelf soft-skills training resources for classroom, virtual, and online training. From assessments and workshops to experiential hands-on games, HRDQ helps organizations improve performance, increase job satisfaction, and more.

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“Really enjoyed the speaker and made broad concepts come to life in a new way.

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“This was a great message and evaluation of leadership. We had similar training during the early WDW years, but the technology and “names” are different but the same message.”

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“Ryan is on to something important here.”

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