Tag: Courageous

How To Navigate Leadership In A Changing World

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Leadership is not easy. It is not for people who don’t know what they want for themselves.

Leadership is not for those who don’t believe that they have what it takes to make a difference in the world.

Leadership is for people who are not afraid to do what other people don’t want to do.

If you are comfortable with yourself, leadership is for you.

‘If you lead from your best self, you feel exellence and even elation within you.’

‘If you are not able to enact courage to have a conversation or take action, the effects are significant.’

‘If you practice self-awareness, you can more easily notice fear, pause for reflective sense-making, and act.’

‘Acknowledging when you don’t know something sets up conditions for receiving support.’

‘Inspiring vision requires you to be a continuous student, learning from various outlets.’

‘Remember that every individual retains areas where they are not strong.’

‘Being an inclusive leader means you don’t have to be the superhero. You don’t have to know everything and do everything.’

‘Conrageous conversation mean being fearless in having direct conversations but in a thoughtful and gracious manner.’

‘As an authentic leader, if you make a mistake, own it, and try to make things better.’

‘The willingness to share of yourself in contextually appropriate and honest ways is important for buidling followership and building the next generation of leaders.’

Source:

Susan MacKenty Brady, Janet Foutty, & Lynn Perry Wooten (2022). Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership

‘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