Visible. and Consistent.

Taking leadership courses, being involved in leadership development programs, and reading the Harvard Business Review are all solid, useful and beneficial.  The real benefit comes through enacting the learnings.  That is accomplished by being visible and being predictable.  Being visible means writing, conversing, and showing up as yourself.  It doesn’t mean being annoyed by a slight, or going for coffee at every opportunity, and it certainly doesn’t mean talking about people behind their back.  Be consistent by writing thought-provoking ideas that are defendable, and by volunteering and contributing to committees, and, especially, be consistent and predictable in behaviour and outputs.