Tag: Leadership Authenticity

What Does It Mean To Be Present?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Life is about connecting with other people. When you are around people who are good at connecting with other people, you don’t want them to go.

As a leader, if you want to connect with your people, you must be there. You must be present. Be there. Because your people are watching you.

Your ‘actions underline or undermine our executive presence.’

‘Your actions are like a red blinking lights that signals to others ‘This is important to me.”

‘Humans trust actions over all other forms of communications.’

‘Presence is the way we move through the world.’

‘Authentic presence is a delicate balancing act of understanding other people’s perspectives, communicating so that they can best hear you, and staying true to yourself.’

Connection increases when you balance competency with vulnerability.’

‘Stories affect the way we understand, remember, and even listen.’

‘The more trust others have for you, the larger their investment in you.’

‘It takes effort to listen well, but it feels amazing on the receiving end.’

‘Reflection time involves letting thoughts come to us, which helps overcome functional fixedness.’

Source:

Kristi Hedges (2012). The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others

Are You A Servant Leader?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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The question is, ‘Are you a servant leader?’ If you are not, it is never too late. You can learn it.

According to Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell, ‘To volunteer to willingly give up one’s life as a soldier for the greater cause is perhaps the most profound example of servant leadership.’

‘True leadership is not about being a master- it’s about being a servant.’

‘Authentic servant leadership cannot come from the outside in. It comes from the inside out.’

‘To do what you say, you have to know what you want to say.’

‘To lead others, you have to learn about yourself.’

‘Inside-out leadership is about discovering who you are, what drives you to do what you do, and what gives you the credibility to lead others.’

‘Inside-out leadership is about becoming the author of your own story and the maker of your own history. Inside-out leadership is also the only way to respond to what your people want from you.’

‘Leadership credibility is about connecting voice and touch, and practicing what you preach, and about doing what you say you will do.’

‘If you don’t find your voice, you may find yourself with a vocabulary that belongs to someone else, mouthing words that were written by a speechwriter who is nothing like you at all.’

‘True servant leadership means you are called to care– not to just feel sorry for someone or feel sympathy or empathy- but to do something.’

Source:

Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell (2018). Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results