A good leader is someone that executes a vision, listens, coaches, is resilient and motivated. A good leader can literally make or break the success of his or her team. Why? Communication! As a leader, your job is to be able to communicate the vision of your company and inspire those around you to reach for greatness. If you can’t do that, what are you bringing to the table?
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Having trust in the people that lead you plays a huge role in your success. If you can’t trust your leader, who can you trust? It is vital that if you are in a leadership role that you are providing your team with reasons to want to follow you. Are you setting a good example? Are you lacking skills, but have the knowledge to provide your team with the tools they will need to succeed?
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As the workforce transitions from an industrial age to the social media age, we discuss the leadership role within the workforce also transitioning. Exploring how defining your company values, behaviors and culture create a dynamic workplace to leverage social media. In an age where the workforce now looks for fulfillment and recognition in exchange for their time and how you can now connect with brilliant minds around the globe; we discuss the importance of the benefits of human interaction and workplace intelligence.
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The Sensei Leader movement is essentially human-centric leadership. In order to be a good leader, it is important that you are constantly growing and developing your skills so that you can provide insights to your team. It is also important that you are self-aware. Do you know who you are? Do you know who you serve?
We’ve all heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Well, there is now a body of research on the science of hopefulness. After leading public relations and corporate communications at media giants Universal and Turner Broadcasting, Libby Gill began looking into this research and started her own coaching and leadership consulting company. In this interview, she discusses what a hope-driven leader is and the powerful components of hope theory. Libby explains how there are multiple ways to an end goal and that hope is a strategy that helps people follow along.
As a former emergency room doctor, Dr. Susan O’Malley lead a different team every day she came to work, but the leadership principles remained the same. At the age of 50, Dr. O’Malley hung up her lab coat and started her own business to help entrepreneurs and corporate executives become better leaders. In this interview, she talks about the most important leadership principle and who is responsible for the success of a team. She stresses the importance of humility and provides strategies for turning setbacks into success.
Let’s face it. Great leaders can go bad. This happens when someone in a leadership position is only concerned about themselves and their agenda and acts arrogantly rather than with humility. Authors Bill Treasurer, a corporate America veteran, and John Havlik, a Navy SEAL, combine their different perspectives and experience with leadership to discuss the qualities of strong, effective leaders as well as bad leaders.
If there is one thing in life that we can count on, it’s changing. Whether it’s a change in career, family situations, moving to a new place, a change in technology, change is inevitable. While change can be scary and uncomfortable, change is actually a great opportunity because it helps develop us into stronger individuals. Change allows us to adapt to uncomfortable situations or circumstances and come out better than we were before.
