Tag: Leadership Career Management

How ‘To Take Charge Of Your Career’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Looking at crisis is one way to identity and learn from thought leaders.’

‘Expand your options, don’t limit your thinking.’

‘Focus on what you know how to do using simple language.’

‘Performance is important, especially early in your career, but image and your spheres of influence count more as you climb the corporate ladder.’

‘Success requires networking at all levels.’

‘The world is your classroom, take advantage of all it has to offer.’

‘Your job is to use research and open-ended questions to identity pain first, then opportunity.’

‘Transitioning to a new industry is like learning a new language.’

‘Don’t be silent: ask for assistance and demand people treat you as an individual.’

‘Reinforce the desire to have people speak with you directly and not make assumptions about what you will or will not do.’

‘You must take the time to build new relationships and networks to identity job opportunities.’

‘You must become comfortable speaking the language of the new industry.‘

Source

Ted Fleming (2020). Develop: 7 Practical Tools To Take Charge Of Your Career

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