Tag: Workplace Learning

How To Lead So That People Will Follow You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Great leaders have followers. Poor leaders have themselves.

The question is, according to Erika Andersen, ‘What is it … that makes someone willing to consider one person his or her leader but not another?’

‘A truly farsighted leader envisions a possible future that responds to and resonates with people’s aspirations for their individual and collective success. … True visionaries often see possibilities where others see difficulty and dead-ends.’

‘People who work with a passionate leader don’t wonder what she stands for or whether she will abandon her principles when the going gets rough.’

‘When the leader commits honestly, based on his or her authentic beliefs about what’s important, people tend to feel it and be drawn into new levels of engagement.’

‘When people observe their leader behaving courageously over time, they are much more willing to follow him or her into new territory. … When the leader lacks courage, people feel as though they need to protect themselves.’

‘When others see that you’re willing to do something that could damage you personally in order to support the success of the organization, they are hugely more likely to line up behind you.’

‘When leaders are wise, we see that they’re considering our welfare and that they’ll do their best to make sure that the enterprise succeeds in a way that supports the success of the greatest possible number of us, their followers.’

‘A leader who is fully generous shares both the power to make decisions and the responsibility for dealing with the consequences of those decisions.’

‘The trustworthy leader tells the truth and keeps her word. She speaks the whole truth (sometimes omission is as much a lie as an outright misstatement) and even tells the truth about not being able to tell the truth.’

‘When a leader is worthy of trust, people reward him or her by becoming more trustworthy themselves. Trust is the essential bond between a true leader and her followers.’

‘Trustworthy leaders are competent. They demonstrate the capability to do the job they have been given (and are honest about any deficits in that regard and how they’ll go about addressing them), and they get the results they’ve committed to achieving.’

Source

Erika Andersen (2012). Leading So People Will Follow

How To Be Successful At Work

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘To position yourself to succeed in a challenging work environment, start by confronting the facts. Don’t ignore reality…’

‘Greatness in work, art, and science requires obsession over quality and an extraordinary attention to detail.’

‘Don’t just see yourself as an employee- see yourself as an innovator of work. Hunt and cure pain points, ask stupid questions, and zoom in on how you can redesign and create value for others.’

‘Follow your passion at all costs and no matter how hard you work.’

‘To avoid the extremes of too little or too much collaboration, top performers discipline collaboration: they carefully select which collaboration activities to participate in (and reject others), and then follow specific rules to make the chosen activities a success.’

‘When you narrow your scope of work and jettison less important tasks, you free up time that you can spend outside work.’

‘Work on how you work, not on protecting your life from your work.’

‘To maximize your collaboration’s chances of success, you need a forcing mechanism to assure that your collaboration receives sufficient time, effort, and financial support.’

‘Don’t let a single disruptive person prevent the entire team from implementing a decision that has been well argued.’

‘To vanquish opposition in the workplace, you must do more than persevere. You also need to tailor your tactics to neutralize opposition from people.’

‘To inspire people and gain their support, line up high-arousal emotions on your side– make them mad and fearful about the present, and joyful and excited about your proposed future goal.’

‘People with a strong sense of both passion and purpose are more energized, getting more done in each hour of work (and they don’t work many extra hours).’

Source

Morten T. Hansen (2018). Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More