Leadership Tips
If you follow me on social media, you’ll be familiar with my series, “Leadership Tips”, where I give some of the juiciest wisdom I’ve learned from top coaching professionals. I’ve included some of these gems below. If you’d like to read my ongoing series, make sure to connect with me on LinkedIn!
Telling the Truth in Meetings
How do you get the bathroom conversation into the meeting room?
In the bathroom, people say how they are really experiencing the meeting. When the meeting actually ends, everyone agrees that things are going fine. It’s a game of playing not to lose versus playing to win.
We need to help leaders create a vision that is bigger than their fear – their fear of getting shot if they stand up and speak the truth.
Excellent reads:
“Mastering Leadership” by Robert (Bob) J. Anderson and William A. (Bill) Adams
“The Empowered Manager” by Peter Block
Most great leaders understand they aren’t just managing tasks.
Most people who we would think of as great leaders really understand that what they are doing is building relationships.
They aren’t managing tasks, they are building relationships.
They understand that tending to relationships is what matters.
We teach managers to manage everything but themselves.
Leadership is About Building Relationships with Wade Brill. Untaught Essentials Podcast with Jeremy Hunter.
We need to find the courage to not pretend anymore.
Stop wasting time just trying to stay happy
When we try to stay in this really short and small kind of range of human experience, the amount of energy that we are expending to brace ourselves and be there and to numb out the other stuff, it ends up shooting us in the foot, because now we’ve wasted all this time just trying to stay happy.
And it creates a mask and a persona of pretending.
Most of us were indoctrinated into pretending, because it’s not easy to be like, “I’m unhappy. I’m sad. I don’t feel good today,” et cetera.
Right?
It’s not socially acceptable either, but it’s spiritually acceptable, and I would prefer that to become the norm for us at some point.
From Sounds True Podcast. Alexandra Roxo: Dare to Feel: The Transformational Path of the Heart
The consciousness of the leader informs the experience of the organization.
I think so much of the toxic leadership we see in the world today is a result of people who do not have a relationship with themselves.
They have trauma that hasn’t been healed, abused and haven’t dealt with it and because they haven’t healed it gets poured into their organization. The healthier that the leader is, the healthier the organization is. And the more dysfunctional that leader is, the more dysfunctional the organization becomes.
Leadership is About Building Relationships with Wade Brill. Untaught Essentials Podcast with Jeremy Hunter.
Consider becoming a “first-class noticer”
To take the cape off of the hero is incredibly liberating.
To go into a place, a state of curiosity and bemusement to see what is happening there and to become a “first-class noticer.” To be able to respond to life you have to be able to observe it. And be open to the fact that you’re not there to fix it in a moment’s notice.
Great insights from Chip Conley and Jerry Colonna, Reboot podcast: The Great Midlife Edit.
What seeds are you planting today that will survive you?
I Am What Survives Me
Ponder that question – what do you want that to be?
How will it show up?
What seeds are you planting today that will survive you?
Mentorship is a big piece of that. If I help someone to be a better human, I hope they will continue that legacy.
Great insights from Chip Conley and Jerry Colonna, Reboot podcast: The Great Midlife Edit.
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