Leading To Engage People

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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

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‘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

How To Be More Effective

The less you hold in mind at once the better.’

Group information into chucks whenever you have too much information.’

The only way to do two mental tasks quickly, if accuracy is important, is doing one of them at a time.’

Switching between tasks uses energy; if you do this a lot you can make more mistakes .’

When you need to focus, remove all external distractions completely.’

Peak performance requires the right level of stress, not minimal stress.’

Practice noticing what your expectations are in any given situation.’

Practice setting expectations a little lower.’

You need to work hard at creating connections to create good collaboration.’

Be open and transparent about your dealings with people, remembering that unfairness is easy to trigger.’

Creative people are all about putting together information in a novel way. Novelty gets attention.’

Source:

Dr. David Rock (2020). Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter all Day Long