Tag: Leadership Authenticity

‘It’s Not About You’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Is it really about you? Life is not about us. It is about other people. When you put other people first, they will put you first.

In business and in life, when you respect and love other people, when you focus on making the world a better place, you are not helping the world; you are helping yourself.

Life is not about you because you need other people to get things done. No matter how smart you are, there is so much you can do alone.

According to Bob and John, ‘Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interest first.’

‘It’s not about you. … It’s about them.’

The best way to increase your influence is to give it away.’

‘Anyone can come up with a vision. The hard part is holding.’

‘Keep seeing in your mind’s eye where it is you’re going even when nobody else does. Especially when nobody else does.’

‘Give people something good to live up to– something great- and they usually will.’

‘Embrace the hurt and it deepens you, makes you a richer person. Deny, reject, hold it at bay, fight it off, and it simply hardens you.’

‘Sometimes it’s time to move to a bigger building.’

‘You can lead only as far as you grow. And you will grow only as far as you let yourself.’

‘What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part, through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.’

Source:

Bob Burg and John David Mann (2011). It’s Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

Why Great Leaders Are Great Coaches

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Coaching is not what you do to people. It is what you do with people.

‘Unless and until the coachee is open, receptive, and willing to invest, the experience won’t work well.’

‘Leaders cannot be expected to change behavior if they don’t have a clear understanding of what desired behavior looks like.’

‘Leadership moves us from rigidity to flexibility; leadership allows us to adapt in a more uncertain environment; leadership urges people to take responsibility, to take initiative, to do the right thing, and thereby to excel.’

‘Leadership is not exclusive to a few ‘top executives’; it is class-free and pervasive.’

‘A leader treats people as responsible adults and encourages all to act in the interest of mutual success.’

‘A leader promotes a sense of individaul worth and community and diligently directs activity toward the business ambitions of the organization.’

‘Leadership is the amount of task bahavior (direction) and relationship behavior (support) given by a leader.’

‘Individual motives should be aligned with the work environment so that employees have a desire to work and excel.’

‘If the learners are not involved in designing their own learning and if they do not have a relationship with the coach in which they are comfortable, they will not learn to the level that the organization expects or needs.’

‘Leaders need to be willing to face reality and commit to making changes.’

Source:

Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence S. Lyons, & Sarah McArthur (2012). Coaching for Leadership