Tag: Community

Lead From Your Heart

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

‘Love can reveal itself in the simplest of ways– by giving someone hope or telling a person that he or she is important.’

‘Humility begins and ends with four magical words: It’s not about you. It isn’t about deflecting compliments or projecting false modesty- it’s about demonstrating that whom you love, whom you care about, and whom you lead is more important than what you accomplish.’

‘When strong leaders embrace human dignity and care enough about whom they lead, they truly make their people partners in the organization’s pursuit of success.’

‘Whatever your job, title, or role, a passionate belief in what you do is often the difference between success and failure.’

‘Self-serving leaders value personal goals and agendas over the needs of the team. Heart-led leaders think in the ‘we’, while self-serving leaders are all about the ‘me.”

‘When people respect a leader– the person, not the position- they enthusiastically follow- at home, at work, in your community, even on the golf course!’

‘Heart-led leaders have the self-awareness to understand who they are and what’s important to them. They can step outside of themselves, giving themselves the ability not to see their own strengths and weaknesses but also to make decisions about how best to live their lives and serve those around them.’

‘When you choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong– even when no one is looking- you are truly leading with your heart.’

‘Heart-led leaders understand that transparency is the fastest way to foster trust, build teams, and grow relationships.’

‘Harboring ill will or negative feelings toward someone not only clouds our memory but also crowds our heart. The only way to make room for love, empathy, and compassion is to push hate and resentment out.’

‘Empathy makes an act of kindness more than a transition.’

‘Nothing better reveals who you are more than how you give to others.’

Source:

Tommy Spaulding (2015). The Heart Led Leader: How Living and Leading from the Heart Will Change Your Organization and Your Life

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Living Your Reality

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

If you don’t like your reality, don’t talk about it, do something about it. Because you created it. And you are the only one who can change it.

Be curious. Because ‘curiosity leads to adaptive responses. Certainty leads to death sentences- at least this is true for every other life form on this planet.’

Don’t do it alone. ‘When fearful people bond together, all the ingredients for strong community are present: a shared world view, a desire to support one another, a clear lens for interpreting information, and a collective self-image that they’re engaged in important work.’

‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’

‘Nothing living lives alone and when we are in genuine relationships, an abundance of creativity and caring gives us the very capacities we need to solve our toughest problems together.’

‘We need to be in the world but not of it. We need to create places at work and in our communities that protect people from the destructive dynamics of this culture and reawaken their human spirits.’

‘We need leaders who recognize the harm being done to people and planet through the dominant practices that control, ignore, abuse, and oppress the human spirit. We need leaders who put service over self, stand steadfast in crises and failures, and who display unshakable faith that people can be generous, creative, and kind.’

‘Is your work still meaningful?’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatley (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity