‘Dare To Lead’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Leadership is not for everybody. Great leaders know that. That is why they don’t even pretend to know everything.

Great leaders lead with courage, not with fear. Great leaders lift their people up. They do that by leading with courage, by going first.

If you want to lead, don’t lead with fear. If you lead with fear, no one is going to follow you.

If you do not have followers, dedicated, loyal followers, you are not a leader.

‘Dare to lead.’To do that, according to Brene Brown, ‘Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior.’

‘Daring leadership is leading from heart, not hurt.’

‘Who we are is how we lead.’

‘It is essential that leadership be one of the explicit priorities for anyone in a role with direct reports- it cannot be a tacked on assumption or done in our spare time.’

Easy learning doesn’t build strong skills.’

‘Setting boundaries is making clear what’s okay and what’s not okay, and why?’

‘Vulnerability minus boundaries is not vulnerability. It’s confession, manipulation, desperation, or shock and awe, but it’s not vulnerability.’

‘Leaders who work from compliance constantly feel disappointed and resentful, and their teams feel scrutinized.’

‘Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We walk our talk- we are clear about what we believe and hold important, and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviors align with those beliefs.’

‘You cannot establish trust in two days when you find yourself in an organizational crisis; it’s either already there or it’s not.’

Source:

Brene Brown (2018). Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Intentional Leadership in Action

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Intentional leaders know who they are. They don’t pretend to be who they are not. They know that they are not perfect. And they are not afraid to admit their mistakes.

According to Jane A. G. Kise, ‘Intentional leaders have deep self-knowledge, and recognize that their strengths come with blind spots.’

‘Intentional leaders go beyond identifying their values; they ponder how they will put them into action.’

‘Intentional leaders explore how their areas of responsibility benefit from each side of the clarity/ambiguity lens.’

‘Intentional leaders keep trust in mind from the start of every new relationship, knowing it is easier to build trust than to rebuild it once mistrust permeates the workplace.’

‘Leaders need to empower those they are leading, not make them overdependent.’

‘People like to be recognized in different ways.’

‘Leaders who emphasize breath may assume that everyone thrives on every changing activities.’

‘Leadership requires looking outward.’

‘Humility allows us to not adjust acknowledge weaknesses but to manage them, which is key to developing leadership expertise.’

Source:

Jane A. G. Kise (2014). Intentional Leadership: 12 Lenses for Focusing Strengths, Managing Weaknesses, and Achieving our Purpose