Tag: Vulnerability

Turning Rejections Around

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

‘…You are also allowed to be the rejecter and say no when something is posed as a great opportunity but just doesn’t feel right.’- Sam Jay

‘If you care enough about your work, you will be able to get past rejections.’– Alysia Reiner

‘When one door closes, another one opens.’- Alysia Reiner

‘It’s powerful to share experiences of rejection. … By sharing your vulnerability and your hardships, you give other people permission to do so as well. Then collectively, we’re able to kind of grow stronger together.’- Polly Rodriquez

‘After a rejection, you have to stop your own destructive narration, the looping story in which you tell yourself what just happened.’– Rachel Platten

‘Volunteering is one of the best possible ways to overcome a failure. because all of a sudden you’re not focused on what you don’t have. You’are focused on all that you can give.’- Rachel Platten

‘Treat your inner artist like a kindergartener in art class. Be gentle rather than critical.’- Rachel Platten

‘When you are trying to make a change, acknowledge that whatever the pushback, there is often validity in other people’s concerns.’- Marilyn Carlson Nelson

‘You know what would be bizzare? If you never failed and you never got rejected.’– Sarah Koenig

‘When you get rejected, you feel like you’re the only one to whom this has happened- but that’s not true. Failure happens to everyone.’- Angela Duckworth

‘Authenticity is all about staying true to your values, not to one particular communication style.’

Jessica Bacal (2021). The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up At Work

RecruitTheBest Daily Digest- Learning To Lead From The Inside Out

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

‘Truly being able to listen to others and actually hear what they’re saying, and being able to reconcile different suggestions and ideas and then combine them in a ‘best of the best’ thinking approach, is a key skill for leaders.’

‘The best leaders develop a sense of true belonging by convincing themselves that they are indeed the right person for the job even if they’re harboring some insecurities. They find the courage to overcome their lack of confidence by figuring out what’s keeping them back and confronting it.’

‘Being able to go beyond your own sense of self to achieve what is best for the team, the organization, and the world around you is critical to being successful- this is the ultimate definition of selfless leadership.’

‘Being vulnerable means you are in touch with what triggers your emotions and know how to direct those feelings into positive energy. You are willling to be touched, moved, and influenced by others and at the same time to share your hopes, fears, and concerns in a way that invites support from others. … Being vulnerable also means knowing how to deal with failure.’

‘Picking a few areas that are most important for you and your organization and going deep is a practice that leaders have to learn. A realization that you are not the smartest person on all topics is foundational for continual learning.’

‘The best leaders are not only good listeners but flexible enough to see when following the cause starts exacting too high a price on their employees.’

‘The best leaders encourage their people to understand their why and then give them the space to decide how it applies to their work.’

‘The best leaders create a system that allows the organization to evaluate bold moves from all angles, then test them out to recognize which of them show the most promise.’

‘The best leaders find the right balance between control and letting people have the agency to take the initiative and inevitably make some moves.’

‘The best leaders build and leverage informal networks of truth tellers who keep them grounded in reality and help them understand how their people really feel. They lead to inspire, not to direct, they foster a culture of dissent by actively seeking it, and welcome open discussion when it comes.’

‘Business leaders too often stick to the patterns and plans that made them successful and fail to change when circumstances shift.’

Source:

Dana Maor; Hans-Werner Kaas; Kurt Strovink; Ramesh Srinivasan (2024). The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out