Tag: Transformational Leadership

How Great Leaders Inspire Their People

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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As a leader, you are not leading things. You are leading people. If you want them to follow you, to help you succeed, you must take care of them. You must not abuse them. And you must treat them with love and respect. If not, they are not going to invest in you.

Everything starts with who you are. How you show up, what you do when you are there, and how you talk to them. They matter.

According to Annette Verschuren, ‘The biggest and hardest personal transformation you will need to make in order to be a great leader is shifting from accomplishing things on your own to achieving things through other people.’

‘Puting yourself on the line may look a lot like failure and rejection before it translates into success.’

‘People rarely know what they’re capable of achieving until life puts them to the test. That’s why your success as a leader depends so heavily upon your ability to do just that.’

‘The main thing preventing people from reaching their goals is procrastination- most often in the form of the hunt for a brilliant plan.’

‘In order to quickly move on opportunity, you don’t need to be the smartest, most experienced or best educated person in the room. All you really need is a brazen attitude.’

‘Leadership is about identifying and creating opportunity, and setting a bold vision. No one will give permission to do this; you need to give yourself permission.’

‘Great leaders don’t fixate on being bad or good. They focus on being better. Focusing on getting better is the first step in effecting tangible, positive change. And getting results is what ultimately gives a leader her power.’

‘Taking the time to truly understand yourself and your values is profoundly important to your professional success.’

‘Knowing and consciously embodying your core values gives you the emotional strength, certainty and decisiveness of a credible leader that others will follow.’

‘Your ability to be successful as a leader is directly tied to your ability to stay organized.’

Source:

Annette Verschuren (2016). Bet on Me: Leading and Succeeding in Business and in Life

Taking Your Leadership To Your Next Level

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Leadership is about growth. As a leader, if you are not growing, you are not leading. You are not learning. You are not challenging yourself. And your people are not going to grow.

Because you are not moving forward. If you want to lead, you must learn. And you must encourage your people to do the same.

According to Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams, ‘Self-leadership is the lifelong stance of continually focusing on a desired future and- in the midst of the current realities of our lives and organizations- taking action (individually and with others) to bring that vision into being.’

‘A business cannot outgrow the effectiveness of its leadership!’

‘Ineffective leadership caps the ability of an organization to grow, and this liability is exposed the minute you start to scale. Leadership that works at one level of scale is likely to run into serious limitations at the next level.’

‘Scale can only be achieved by developing capacity and capability in others. Effective leaders develop others.’

‘We need to shift from knowing to learning and from controlling to empowering.’

‘The organization cannot perform at a level higher than the collective effectiveness of the top leadership group.’

‘Leaders have a moral obligation to get good with people at scale. When you step into or are thrust into leadership, you are in the people business!’

‘You don’t lead results- you lead people to get results.’ The higher you go in an organization, the more you need to excel in relationships at scale.’

‘Regardless of what natural leadership traits you bring to the table, your leadership ability can and should be developed.’

‘Change and transformation are only worth the effort if there is something more or higher to gain or to create for which our current level of leadership is too small.’

Source:

Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams (2019). Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most