Use your Action Learning Set (ALS) discussion forum Action Learning Set (ALS) (or Inquiry Application Group (IAG) for GMTS participants) to share experiences of a relationship at work where you have had an unapproachable manager.

Think also about any experience you have of a shallow Authority Gradient, where your manager has been very approachable.

• What effect did both these have on the work you were doing?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Make time to ask some members of your team how approachable they think you are. It may be that this can be discussed as part of your feedback, or you may just choose to ask them in passing.

From your work on the Authority Gradient, what new insights do you have about your own behaviour as a leader?

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