How To Inspire A High-Performing Team

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‘Whether in the arts, sports, sciences, or leadership, early exposure cultivates mastery of skills.’

‘The evolved leader blends the ideology of one’s true self with the well-grounded practicality that enables them to accomplish the mission.’

‘Evolved leaders must have the agility to assess each audience or individual with whom they interact and adapt their persona, while never being untrue to their own core values.’

‘The evolved leader never approaches an issue with an intractable position of certainty.’

‘A core skill of evolved leadership is the ability to ask questions that enable others to provide comprehensive, well-thought-out answers based on logic and reasoning.’

‘Never respond to a challenge with a statement. Always ask a clarifying questions.’

‘The evolved leader seeks truth over comfort.’

‘Just as companies create operating principles and value statements that are meant to endure through all types of change, so too should evolved leaders implement value protocols for themselves and their teams.’

Don’t sit safely blending into the camouflage.’

Don’t default to the inertia of your comfort zone.’

Require every criticism to include a recommendation.’

Source

Stephen Young and Barbara Hockfield (2024). The Power of Evolved Leadership: Inspire top Performance by Fostering Inclusive Teams

Designed Leadership By Moura Quayle

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If you want to be an effective leader, you must lead by design.

Because, according to Moura Qualye, ‘Designed leadership uses the mindset, tools, techniques, and methods of design and designers to shape the practice of leadership.’

‘Designed leadership is about being grounded in both our geographic and psychological place and knowing how we fit into those places. It is about the continual search for our place- which can change our lives as leaders.’

‘Designed leadership suggests that our position, informed by our experiences and our knowledge of place, needs clarity but can change.’

‘Designed leadership allows you to go to a child’s place or a senior’s place, to think like one of them, play like one of them, and come back to your better positioned to make clear and valuable decisions.’

Strategic design is about stepping back, laying out what you know, and then asking questions to help identify the gaps.’

‘Attend to patterns- recognize them when useful, redesign them if necessary.’

Rebuilding begins with education. … Rebuilding also requires disruptions.’

‘Designed leadership is about tapping into the mind-set, tools, and techniques of the designer, to help shape more effective leadership. It centers on a reset of the person, of ways of being (mindset), and of ways of engaging one another (relationships and communication style.’

‘Designed leadership is about creating the best possible context to meet the needs of the moment.’

Source:

Moura Quayle (2017). Designed Leadership