Tag: Leadership Agility

10 ‘Essential Skills You Need To Be A Leader’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Leadership is not about being perfect. It is about being okay with your imperfections.

It is about making peace with yourself. It is about showing up for yourself. It is about building a community. It is about nurturing your people.

It is about beating your own path. According to Jo Owen, ‘If you follow the herd, you will never get ahead of the herd.’

‘It takes great self-confidence, self-awareness and humility to admit to not being good at things.’

‘It is greenest where it rains the most.’

‘Your career is a marathon, not a sprint.’

‘Boxes are for the dead, not the living.’

‘Th best way to communicate is to shut up.’

‘You can drive performance better by focusing on development.’

‘Fighting emotions with reason is like fighting fire with petrol.’

‘No leader gets ticks in all boxes.’

‘Honesty is not just about morals and ethics. It’s about survival.’

Source:

Jo Owen (2021). The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need To Be A Leader

Leading With Authenticity

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Who are you? Are you who you say you are? Are you doing what you say you are going to do?

Remember, when it comes to leading other people, authenticity is what people are looking for. People are looking for real leaders. They want to work for a real leader.

The question is, ‘Are you a true leader? To answer this question, according to Sabrina Horn, ‘Being a true founder is a position without boundaries but with infinite responsibilities.’

‘Improvement and growth can never rely on faking it until you make it.’

‘A leader with integrity is unbreakable.’

‘Integrity is the table stakes for leadership. To possess integrity, you need to be whole, undivided, sound, uncorrupted, and incorruptible.’

‘True leaders search for what they can give; others search for what they can take.’

‘Minimization lies often involve rationalization and take place when people can’t completely deny the truth.’

‘A new venture is a stress test for any relationship.’

‘Values will be the basis of your company’s brand, your culture and traditions, what you stand for, how your people behave and perform, how you work and communicate, and everything in between.’

‘Optimistic leaders look for solutions at all times, often when the stakes are highest, at the darkest moments, at the eleventh.’

‘Running a successful business means making the right decisions at the right time, based on reality.’

Source:

Sabrina Horn (2021). Make It, Don’t Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success