Tag: Success

Want To Be A Great Leader?

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

As a leader, if you are not great at what you do, if you don’t know what you are doing, if you do not know how to lead yourself, no one is going to follow you.

‘Leadership is not about always being right but about having the courage to take risk, move forward, maintain momentum, and if you fail, try again.’

‘Every leadership vision, idea, and decision will impact others.’

‘Great leaders surround themselves with people who will tell them the truth. The ability to speak the truth as well as hear it is a key attribute of great leadership.’

‘When the opportunity to lead presents itself, it’s too late to start to prepare. Whether it’s taking leadership classes, taking on stretch assignments or projects, or reading books like this one, do what you need to be ready when the door opens.’

‘The best leaders are active listeners.’

‘While how you see yourself is important, how others see you is critical to your success as a leader.’

‘Today’s employees are looking for authenticity. No other leader is exactly like you; your distinguishing characteristics and sharing who you really are will build connection with your employees.’

‘When you are building your team, consider a potential employee’s skills, aptitude, appetite to learn, pivot, and problem solve, and attitude. It is also important that you understand how they will fit in with the team and the company culture.’

‘The way you get more comfortable with taking risks is to take risks.’

‘When you let others use your mistakes against you or use them as a reason not to give you new assignments, roles, or promotions, you are giving away your power.’

‘Great leaders learn to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.’

Source:

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

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Facing Your Reality

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

Your reality is your own reality. You are the only one who can change it.

If you like your reality, live it. If you do not like your reality, do something about it.

Don’t just talk about it. Do something about it.

‘Machines wear down and die. Living systems, if they learn and adapt, do not.’

‘A healthy living system is an intelligent learner. It can adapt and survive even though its environment is moving toward increasing disorder. But it must be actively engaged and aware, never losing focus on its environment. Failing to pay attention and adapt is a prescription for death.’

‘Sane leadership is the commitment to create the conditions for the finest human capacities- generosity, creativity, kindness- to blossom, protected from the external environment. It is the deep knowing that, even in the most dire circumstances, more becomes possible engage together with compassion and discernment, self-determining their best way forward.’

‘Once a system has tipped, it cannot reverse back to its former state. We need to learn to live with it, to adapt. And this is not always possible.’

‘A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being willing to serve an inhumane, indecent time.’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatney (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity