Tag: Decision Making

How To Lead Remotely

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Try to understand the cultural subtleties and really focus upon the interpretation of language– check understanding carefully.’- Vanessa Evans

‘Be clear on the explicit purpose of each of your virtual interactions.’– Vanessa Evans

‘Keep focusing on the strategic issues as it’s all too easy to be drawn into the daily tactical ones.’- Vanessa Evans

‘With teams on every continent, they have to be self-standing within the context of the broad corporate direction.’- Steve Finlan

‘Ensure everyone knows where we’re heading and how we’re doing- this allows everyone to make decisions within this context.’- Steve Finlan

‘Act as a connector, link individuals and teams together to help them widen their outlooks and thinking.’- Mike Hawes

‘Trust your teams and equally, be inquisitive about what’s both said and not said.’- Mike Hawes

‘Have a single set of priorities and measures that everyone is striving towards.’- Ian Herrett

‘Really understand what makes others tick– this enables you to have the easy and difficult conversations in the same unemotive way.’- Ian Herrett

‘Enable every leader to have access to all the data to encourage curiosity and cross-team learning.’– Ravindra Patel

Source

Mike Parkes (2021). Leading Remotely: Achieving Success in a Globally Connected World

How To Build Strong Leaders

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development
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‘Leaders achieve their results through the results of others.’

Strong leaders know who they are. They get better by challenging themselves.

They pay attention to what they are doing, how they are leading their people, and where they are going.

They get better every day. They get better by putting themselves out there.

So if you want to improve yourself, then you must get out of your comfort zone.

‘Trust is the new currency of work.’

According to Alain Hunkins, ‘Self-awareness is the skill that enables you to transform unconscious incompetence or competence into conscious competence.’

‘You cannot become excellent at anything if you’re oblivious as to why and how you do it.’

‘Leaders who are committed to developing themselves keep putting themselves in situations outside of their comfort zone.’

‘No longer are employees seen as mindless worker bees. Now, leaders need to be more involved and nurture and develop the whole person that comes attached to the pair of hands.’

‘Leading through fear and threats suffocates good decision-making and keeps teams mired in mediocrity.’

‘For sustainable success in the long term, trust is a must.’

‘Working together is what allowed small tribes of our paleolithic ancestors to survive and ultimately thrive.’

‘Commitment is built from the ground up, one relationship at a time.’

‘Empathic leaders pick up on cues that tip the balance of insight in their favor.’

‘The choices we make are only as good as the knowledge we have when we make them.’

Source:

Alain Hunkins (2020). Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders