Tag: Leadership Communication

10 Things All Great Leaders Do Differently

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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Leadership starts with you. If you want to lead, ask yourself this question: ‘Why do I want to lead?’

‘Do I have what it takes to lead?’ If you do not have it, then don’t even go there!

‘As a leader, you are only as good as your last decision.’

‘You simply can’t become a great leader until you are a great communicator.’

‘Your job as leader is to take a 30,000 foot view of your organization and your industry, so that you can spot opportunities that will create real competitive advantage.’

‘Some of the biggest mistakes leaders make are the result of failing to ensure resources are adequate and strategies are feasible.’

‘When it comes to responsibilities, clarity breeds confidence, and confusion breeds disillusion.’

‘Walk your talk, be respectful, and earn the respect that will make your people want to follow you to the ends of the Earth.’

‘Prepare for contingencies ahead of time, so you won’t be blindsided by unexpected consequences of your actions.’

‘People won’t perform until the organization feels like a common unit that everyone has a vested interest in, and often it’s little things that help to make this happen.’

‘Everyone wants results, but the leaders who build a sense of utter and complete focus in their people are the ones who get it done.’

‘Leaders must learn to take all kinds of risks, not just those that involve business strategies.’

Source:

Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves (2012). Leadership 2.0

Managing Your Blindspots

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Blindspot: An unrecognized weakness of threat that has the potential to undermine a leader’s success.’

‘People who are smart and self-assured are often very skillful at justifying their thinking and behavior- to the point of being in denial about their weaknesses and the threats they face.’

‘Mistakes are the royal road to understanding blindspots, particularly when repeated over time and in different situations.’

‘Part of the skill in identifying and overcoming blindspots is to understand that some are the result of individual traits and others arise from situational factors.’

‘Leaders can assume they are aware of what is occurring around them when, in fact, they have partial, sometimes inaccurate, and often outdated views.’

‘There is some truth in the saying that the surest way to destroy a company is to give it ten years of unmitigated success.’

‘Leaders must strive to create a culture that promotes straight talk but also pay attention to the nuances of communication in the decision making process.’

‘The challenge is to remain focused on the decision that needs to be made while simultaneously paying attention to subtleties that can easily be lost in the heat of debate.’

‘Leaders need to listen openly before a decision is made and then become drivers of results once it is reached.’

‘One of the burdens of moving up is that the complexity of the decisions leaders face increases at the same time as their ability to reveal their vulnerabilities decreases.’

‘Successful leaders have a strong belief in their own abilities … the best and the brightest can easily come to believe that following anything other than their own convictions is foolish.’

‘The leader creates the team and the team then creates the leader– as a primary source of feedback and advice, it becomes a key influence on the leader’s thinking and behavior.’

Source:

Robert Bruce Shaw (2014). Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter