Tag: Work Life

How To Become A Better Leader

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘To become a better leader than you are right now, the first fundamental thing you have to do is to believe you can be a better leader and that you can learn to improve your leadership skills and abilities.’

‘Leading is about the actions you take, not the position you hold. It’s about the values that guide your … actions. It’s about the visions you have for yourself and others.’

‘When people reflect on their experiences, it becomes clear that the way leaders behave has an impact on both themselves and others around them.’

‘People around the world have similar expectations about how leaders should behave and therefore have similar evaluations of what makes their leaders effective.’

‘Authentic leadership flows from the inside out.’

‘Learning to lead is about discovering what you value, what inspires you, what challenges you, what gives you energy, and what encourages you.’

‘Learning to lead is not dependent on any particular learning style. … What matters is that you do more of whatever learning tactic works best for you.’

‘You need to examine your mindset before you seriously set off on your learning leadership journey.’

‘Your belief about your ability to learn are where it all starts.’

‘The best leaders are the best learners.’

Source:

James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner (2016). Learning Leadership: Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Living Your Reality

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

If you don’t like your reality, don’t talk about it, do something about it. Because you created it. And you are the only one who can change it.

Be curious. Because ‘curiosity leads to adaptive responses. Certainty leads to death sentences- at least this is true for every other life form on this planet.’

Don’t do it alone. ‘When fearful people bond together, all the ingredients for strong community are present: a shared world view, a desire to support one another, a clear lens for interpreting information, and a collective self-image that they’re engaged in important work.’

‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’

‘Nothing living lives alone and when we are in genuine relationships, an abundance of creativity and caring gives us the very capacities we need to solve our toughest problems together.’

‘We need to be in the world but not of it. We need to create places at work and in our communities that protect people from the destructive dynamics of this culture and reawaken their human spirits.’

‘We need leaders who recognize the harm being done to people and planet through the dominant practices that control, ignore, abuse, and oppress the human spirit. We need leaders who put service over self, stand steadfast in crises and failures, and who display unshakable faith that people can be generous, creative, and kind.’

‘Is your work still meaningful?’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatley (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity