Tag: Relationships

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

How To Build Strong Leaders

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development
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‘Leaders achieve their results through the results of others.’

Strong leaders know who they are. They get better by challenging themselves.

They pay attention to what they are doing, how they are leading their people, and where they are going.

They get better every day. They get better by putting themselves out there.

So if you want to improve yourself, then you must get out of your comfort zone.

‘Trust is the new currency of work.’

According to Alain Hunkins, ‘Self-awareness is the skill that enables you to transform unconscious incompetence or competence into conscious competence.’

‘You cannot become excellent at anything if you’re oblivious as to why and how you do it.’

‘Leaders who are committed to developing themselves keep putting themselves in situations outside of their comfort zone.’

‘No longer are employees seen as mindless worker bees. Now, leaders need to be more involved and nurture and develop the whole person that comes attached to the pair of hands.’

‘Leading through fear and threats suffocates good decision-making and keeps teams mired in mediocrity.’

‘For sustainable success in the long term, trust is a must.’

‘Working together is what allowed small tribes of our paleolithic ancestors to survive and ultimately thrive.’

‘Commitment is built from the ground up, one relationship at a time.’

‘Empathic leaders pick up on cues that tip the balance of insight in their favor.’

‘The choices we make are only as good as the knowledge we have when we make them.’

Source:

Alain Hunkins (2020). Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders