
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: How Can I Convince Myself I Belong in Leadership?
How can a new leader overcome the lack of confidence they feel with their new team? Sanyin Siang has three suggestions.
Leadership roles come with new personal and professional challenges — and Sanyin Siang, board and CEO coach, adviser, and author, is here to help with an advice column for top managers. Send your leadership questions to asksanyin@mit.edu or submit the form below.
How can a new leader overcome the lack of confidence they feel with their new team? Sanyin Siang has three suggestions.
Get past employees’ “too many meetings” gripes and make better use of time spent with your team.
CEO coach Sanyin Siang offers advice on tapping into people’s latent strengths to build an effective team.
CEO coach and author Sanyin Siang offers advice on how to make your mark and build a lasting legacy as a leader.
How to approach a new leadership role when your predecessor casts a long shadow.
Sanyin Siang is a a CEO coach, author, and executive director for the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a professor with its Pratt School of Engineering. She is the winner of the Thinkers50 2019 Coaching & Mentoring Award and author of The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea, Business or Next Career (Lid Publishing, 2017).