Category: Personal Development

Designed Leadership By Moura Quayle

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

Are You A Servant Leader?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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The question is, ‘Are you a servant leader?’ If you are not, it is never too late. You can learn it.

According to Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell, ‘To volunteer to willingly give up one’s life as a soldier for the greater cause is perhaps the most profound example of servant leadership.’

‘True leadership is not about being a master- it’s about being a servant.’

‘Authentic servant leadership cannot come from the outside in. It comes from the inside out.’

‘To do what you say, you have to know what you want to say.’

‘To lead others, you have to learn about yourself.’

‘Inside-out leadership is about discovering who you are, what drives you to do what you do, and what gives you the credibility to lead others.’

‘Inside-out leadership is about becoming the author of your own story and the maker of your own history. Inside-out leadership is also the only way to respond to what your people want from you.’

‘Leadership credibility is about connecting voice and touch, and practicing what you preach, and about doing what you say you will do.’

‘If you don’t find your voice, you may find yourself with a vocabulary that belongs to someone else, mouthing words that were written by a speechwriter who is nothing like you at all.’

‘True servant leadership means you are called to care– not to just feel sorry for someone or feel sympathy or empathy- but to do something.’

Source:

Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell (2018). Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results