How To Lead With A Growth Mindset

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Life is a laboratory. Your life is your own laboratory. It is where you carry out your experiments.

It is where you learn how to fall, how to fail. It is where you learn more about yourself.

If you are not doing well, if you are not getting the right results, do not beat yourself up. Instead of beating yourself up, why not go back to your laboratory for more work, for more experiments?

‘Has there ever been a more complex time to lead?’

According to Craig Dowden, ‘Without focusing on self-mastery every day, we cannot achieve our potential or the potential of those we lead.’

‘Leadership starts with our mindset.’

‘Leadership is not just about thinking our way through things. It is about feeling our way as well.’

‘The faster the rate of change, the higher the volatility.’

‘Leadership is about making a difference- not just for ourselves but for others as well.’

‘When we are in growth mindset, feedback is like eating our vegetables. Even if it doesn’t taste great, we recognize and accept it is good for us.’

‘When leaders with growth mindset face a setback, it is a puzzle to figure out rather than an insurmountable obstacle to overcome.’

‘To be an effective leader, it is essential to elevate our awareness of our current mindset, to change it when appropriate, and to recognize how our mindset affects not only ourselves but the people around us.’

‘When the team looks good, the leader looks good.’

‘To be successful as a leader, we must make those around us better.’

Source:

Craig Dowden (2022). A Time to Lead: Mastering Your Self… So You Can Master Your World

Why Great Leaders Are Great Coaches

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Coaching is not what you do to people. It is what you do with people.

‘Unless and until the coachee is open, receptive, and willing to invest, the experience won’t work well.’

‘Leaders cannot be expected to change behavior if they don’t have a clear understanding of what desired behavior looks like.’

‘Leadership moves us from rigidity to flexibility; leadership allows us to adapt in a more uncertain environment; leadership urges people to take responsibility, to take initiative, to do the right thing, and thereby to excel.’

‘Leadership is not exclusive to a few ‘top executives’; it is class-free and pervasive.’

‘A leader treats people as responsible adults and encourages all to act in the interest of mutual success.’

‘A leader promotes a sense of individaul worth and community and diligently directs activity toward the business ambitions of the organization.’

‘Leadership is the amount of task bahavior (direction) and relationship behavior (support) given by a leader.’

‘Individual motives should be aligned with the work environment so that employees have a desire to work and excel.’

‘If the learners are not involved in designing their own learning and if they do not have a relationship with the coach in which they are comfortable, they will not learn to the level that the organization expects or needs.’

‘Leaders need to be willing to face reality and commit to making changes.’

Source:

Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence S. Lyons, & Sarah McArthur (2012). Coaching for Leadership