‘Leading So People Will Follow’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘Why do people want passion in a leader?’

Erika Andersen

‘A truly passionate leader invites and encourages dialogue. She wants others to share in her passion, not simply tolerate or be railroaded by it.’

‘Leaders who are farsighted are realistic … and future oriented.’

‘Speaking from a we versus I perspective arises out of a belief that we are responsible for success, that we will work together to achieve the goals of the organization.’

‘Learning begins inside your own head, in managing how you’re talking to yourself about the obstacles before you.’

‘If we align ourselves behind a leader, we want that person to stay the course: we don’t want him or her to get bored, or distracted, or careless, and wander away from the fray.’

‘… Courageous leader also has the courage to change her mind in response to new information and take full responsibility for both the initial position and the new one.’

‘Courage in a leader is a blend of toughness, decisiveness, willingness to move past one’s own limitations, humility, and resilience. It involves making difficult business and personal decisions, overcoming fear and risk to act on those decisions, and responding to the outcomes of those decisions in a responsible way.’

‘People want courageous leaders in order to know that someone will make the tough calls and take responsibility for them.’-

Erika Andersen

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‘When people observe their leader behaving courageously over time, they are much more willing to follow him or her into new territory.’

‘When the leader lacks courage, people feel as though they need to protect themselves. They tend to withdraw their commitment from the team and the enterprise and the enterprise try to figure out how to mitigate the personal impact of their leader’s lack of courage.’

Source:

Erika Andersen (2012). Leading So People Will Follow

Leading To Engage People

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘All our work happens through people– one relationship and one conversation at a time.’

‘We are not leading if we are not listening, and we are not listening when we are doing anything else.’

‘To listen deeply, we need to emphasize our focus and attitude toward the other person.’

‘We are not leading if we are not listening.’

Roxi Bahar Hewertson

‘Trust is the cornerstone of all relationships, and the level of trust that people have in each other is the most significant measure of those relationships.’

‘Without trust, you cannot succeed as a leader. With it, there are no limits to what’s possible.’

‘It takes time and work to build trust. It takes only a nanosecond to break it. However, the deeper the trust, the more possible it is to rebuild it.’

‘Courage is the quality of the mind or spirit that enables us to face physical or moral difficulty, danger, pain, and other hardships and walk toward and through them anyway.’

‘Learning occurs by moving from not knowing to knowing through awareness, feedback, and then practice and experience.’-

Roxi Bahar Hewertson

Recruitthebest.org

‘Choose a change process, and communicate it to everyone who will be affected, and then pull rather than push change in your organization.’

‘When you engage your people, empower them to have a voice in decisions, and embed the changes in the fabric of your organization, you will have a good shot at ‘buy in,’ and that means that the change is likely to stick.’

‘Learning occurs by moving from not knowing to knowing through awareness, feedback, and then practice and experience.’

Source:

Roxi Bahar Hewertson (2015). Lead Like It Matters: Practical Leadership Tools to Inspire and Engage Your People and Create Great Results