Tag: Leadership Agility

Leading Inclusion: How To Get It Right

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Business leaders can help eliminate race-based workplace disparities by listening to and connecting with employees of all races.’

‘It is difficult to build and lead an inclusive organization without first understanding the experiences of those who have been traditionally excluded.‘

‘You must create and maintain an environment in which traditionally underrepresented groups do not face systemic hindrances and are unequivocably safe to voice the injustices they experience.’

‘To understand how to enhance the experiences of employees from traditionally underrepresented groups, leaders must connect with all employees.’

‘Although it is vital to address both interpersonal and systemic bias in organizations, focusing on the systemic bias will have a faster and more scalable impact.’

‘Leaders must recognize and fix their own implicit biases.’

‘To really understand employee experience, understand how managers behave.’

‘Employees who are subordinated and waiting for systemic change know that disproportionately focusing on ‘the money’ only perpetuates the very problem that needs to be solved.‘

‘Your executive team members can make or break your efforts to build an inclusive culture.’

‘Multicultural competency should be an essential leadership expectation, like financial and marketing acumen.’

Source

Gena Cox (2022). Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel

How To Inspire A High-Performing Team

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Whether in the arts, sports, sciences, or leadership, early exposure cultivates mastery of skills.’

‘The evolved leader blends the ideology of one’s true self with the well-grounded practicality that enables them to accomplish the mission.’

‘Evolved leaders must have the agility to assess each audience or individual with whom they interact and adapt their persona, while never being untrue to their own core values.’

‘The evolved leader never approaches an issue with an intractable position of certainty.’

‘A core skill of evolved leadership is the ability to ask questions that enable others to provide comprehensive, well-thought-out answers based on logic and reasoning.’

‘Never respond to a challenge with a statement. Always ask a clarifying questions.’

‘The evolved leader seeks truth over comfort.’

‘Just as companies create operating principles and value statements that are meant to endure through all types of change, so too should evolved leaders implement value protocols for themselves and their teams.’

‘Don’t sit safely blending into the camouflage.’

‘Don’t default to the inertia of your comfort zone.’

‘Require every criticism to include a recommendation.’

Source

Stephen Young and Barbara Hockfield (2024). The Power of Evolved Leadership: Inspire top Performance by Fostering Inclusive Teams