Tag: People Empowerment

Want To Win?

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

Yes, leadership is not about you. But if you are not winning, then what is going on?

If you are not winning, you are losing. If you are not losing, you are winning.

If you are not growing, you are dying. If you are not going forward, you are doing the opposite.

‘The question is not if you will make a mistake, it is when. Mistakes will happen. Great leaders learn from them and apply what they’ve learned going forward.’

‘No one can do it alone. Leveraging other people’s intellect, relationships, and experience as well as establishing your own relationships will propel your success as a leader.’

‘As a leader, one of your most important jobs is to create other leaders.’

‘Today’s employees are looking for representation in their leaders. They want to see people who look like them with a seat at the table.’

‘There is no innovation without diversity.’

‘Great leaders accept that we all have biases and look for ways to mitigate them in hiring, development, and elsewhere.’

‘As a leader, you must make sure your team understands that diverse means different, not less qualified.’

‘People value being seen, and as a leader, you have an opportunity to inspire people when you recognize them. It is a way of saying, ‘You are important to this team; I value that you are here.’ It is extremely empowering.’

‘While it is not always easy or comfortable, direct communication and the courage to ‘call a thing a thing’ are the fastest and most productive ways to a solution.’

‘Leading today requires the ability to transform … people, situations, and yourself.’

‘Transparency builds trust.’

Source:

Carla A. Harris (2022). Lead to Win: How to Be a Powerful, Impactful, Influential Leader in Any Environment

How To Start Making A Difference In Your Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

Remember that life is more than just you. If you want to make a difference in your life, don’t forget about other people. If you want to make a difference in the world, don’t forget to put yourself first.

When you care for yourself, you care for others. When you care for others, you care for the world.

To make a difference in your life, you must be vulnerable. According to Julie P. Boyer, ‘Vulnerability powers leadership. Vulnerability powers change. Vulnerability also powers love and connection.’

Vulnerability says, ‘I am just like you. You and I are the same. We are one.’

To make a difference in your life, start your journey with what you have. ‘You don’t have to be able to imagine how you’ll find the work you’re meant to do, or how you’ll summon the courage to try. You don’t have to currently know that it’s possible.’

To make a difference in your life, don’t focus on what you are going through in your life. Because it is not going to be there forever. ‘Whether you’re at the bottom of a hole right now, or just starting to fall in, we’re going to get you out.’

‘When you’re operating from your true self, you don’t get paralyzed by fear, blame, avoidance, or doubt because you’ll be focused on what’s valuable to you, what you appreciate and what you are capable of.’

‘Everything changes when you shift out of the saboteur’s perspective and look at things through the lens of your true self. You thoughts will change, your perceptions will change, and your experience will change.’

‘Celebrate your new awareness! Awareness is the first and most powerful step in creating new choices for yourself.’

‘When you get good at dreaming, you empower yourself with the capacity to create.’

‘When you dream about what you want, you’re putting yourself in the position of receiving what you want and enjoying it.’

‘If you make dreaming a habit, you’ll find yourself less stressed out, less overwhelmed, and more empowered. You’ll build comfort in the unknown and become a strong decision maker at work and in your personal life.’

‘When you’re trying to create a change that requires you to grow as a person, normal problem-solving and goal-setting isn’t always enough to take you there.’

‘When you spend years, even decades, inside the same thoughts pattern, unconsciously believing made-up stories about who you are, you start paint that reality as ‘real.’

‘When you truly commit to creating an outcome before you know how you’ll make it happen, you activate an entirely different set of internal resources than you do with mere goal-setting.’

‘When you live from purpose, you do so from your heart. … Only a compelling purpose, one that comes from deep inside you, will keep drawing forward.’

‘Whoever you discover you are, and whatever you’re here on earth to do, you’ll do it in your whole life, not just your work.’

‘When you connect with your purpose, you’ll hear an internal ‘yes’ as you look at some options, and internal ‘no’ when you look at others. You’ll be seeing your options through the lens of your heart, the place of intuition and wisdom, which is often more dependable than logic alone.’

Finally, if you know what you want, ‘you can start acting on it now.’

Source:

Julie P. Boyer (2019). Just Give Me Meaningful Work: Escape Your Exhausting Job And Start Making A Difference