Category: Improve Academy

Who does not want to improve?

Becoming An Effective Leader

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

‘The good news is that we don’t have to be prefect to be a leader.’

‘Leadership is about taking people where they would not have gone by themselves.’

‘The best leaders focus on just three priorities: Idea, People, Action.’

‘You cannot succeed by trying to become someone else.’

‘If you want to lead, you have to make a difference.’

‘Your future perfect idea must be simple enough that it can be interpreted and made relevant.’

‘You need to create a team and a network of people who have faith in your story.‘

‘You do not really know your own idea until you know how other people will judge it.’

‘As a leader you need to know where you add value to your team, where you make a difference.’

‘You can teach skills but you cannot teach values.’

‘Can you learn to be a leader?’

Source:

Jo Owen (2018). How to Lead: The 5th Edition of the Bestselling Guide

The Heart Of Your Business

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

‘All of us in the business world, whether we realize it or not, signed up for a sales job.’

‘You are always selling. Your products. Your ideas. Your whole self.’

‘If you’re truly passionate about what it is you’re selling and can tell a story about why you love your product and your company, you don’t need to avail yourself of any slick tricks you might associate with selling.’

‘The feeling your customer leaves with after that conversation will inform their decision to come back or go somewhere else.’

‘You can’t own a business without owning your mistakes.’

‘Employees don’t really want an environment with no rules; they want to be engaged in a worthy cause and feel proud of what they create.’

Sometimes, no product is better than a substandard one.’

‘How you comport yourself in all your daily interactions with employees, clients, and peers is an act of salesmanship, because the way you act is an advertisement to keep working with you or run the other way, to dive in and invest more time and money in what you’re doing, or to cut losses and bounce.’

‘The healthiest businesses are the ones that operate in a culture of accountability.’

‘Moments of crisis reveal who a person really is.’

Source:

Robert Irvine (2023). Overcoming Impossible: Learn to Lead, Build a Team, and Catapult Your Business to Success