Tag: Emotional Awareness

How Great Leaders Energize People

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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As a leader, your people are watching you. Don’t assume you know how they see you. You don’t. If you want to know, you have got to know them. You have got to meet them where they are.

In her book The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day, Kristi Hedges writes, ‘When you show how seriously you’re taking a conversation, it raises the importance for everyone else as well.’

‘Embracing uncertainty and saying ‘I don’t know’ invites outside thinking. It also shows courage.’

‘To truly connect with someone else, we need to send out a beaming and accurate light that allows them to see our intentions and motivations clearly.’

‘Your leadership story tells people what you’re all about.’

‘Communicating potential helps people access their strengths.’

‘When we highlight potential, we boost confidence.‘

‘If you know how to shift your listening, you can go into deep and inspirational listening mode whenever you choose to.’

‘We need to shift to curiosity when we want to learn, rather than just confirm what we already think.’

‘When we exude positive energy, people borrow from it, internalize it, and make it their own.’

‘The energy we convey sets the benchmark for what other people will be able to feel.’

‘When you connect to the emotional core of your message, you exhibit a mobilizing force.’

Source:

Kristi Hedges (2017). The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day

How Great Leaders Inspire Their People

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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As a leader, you are not leading things. You are leading people. If you want them to follow you, to help you succeed, you must take care of them. You must not abuse them. And you must treat them with love and respect. If not, they are not going to invest in you.

Everything starts with who you are. How you show up, what you do when you are there, and how you talk to them. They matter.

According to Annette Verschuren, ‘The biggest and hardest personal transformation you will need to make in order to be a great leader is shifting from accomplishing things on your own to achieving things through other people.’

‘Puting yourself on the line may look a lot like failure and rejection before it translates into success.’

‘People rarely know what they’re capable of achieving until life puts them to the test. That’s why your success as a leader depends so heavily upon your ability to do just that.’

‘The main thing preventing people from reaching their goals is procrastination- most often in the form of the hunt for a brilliant plan.’

‘In order to quickly move on opportunity, you don’t need to be the smartest, most experienced or best educated person in the room. All you really need is a brazen attitude.’

‘Leadership is about identifying and creating opportunity, and setting a bold vision. No one will give permission to do this; you need to give yourself permission.’

‘Great leaders don’t fixate on being bad or good. They focus on being better. Focusing on getting better is the first step in effecting tangible, positive change. And getting results is what ultimately gives a leader her power.’

‘Taking the time to truly understand yourself and your values is profoundly important to your professional success.’

‘Knowing and consciously embodying your core values gives you the emotional strength, certainty and decisiveness of a credible leader that others will follow.’

‘Your ability to be successful as a leader is directly tied to your ability to stay organized.’

Source:

Annette Verschuren (2016). Bet on Me: Leading and Succeeding in Business and in Life